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Researchers propose ATOD, a hybrid online distillation algorithm that combines on-policy distillation and reinforcement learning to train small language-model agents for multi-turn tasks. ATOD uses an annealed schedule t…
Team HSA_CORAL submitted to the FinCausal 2026 shared task on extracting cause-effect relations from financial narratives via extractive question answering in English and Spanish. Their best system, GPT-4.1 Mini fine-tun…
Researchers used a developmental approach to study how neural language models learn statistical patterns, finding that Transformers first acquire abstract global statistics before local dependencies, with early over-gene…
Researchers introduced DiscoBench, a benchmark for clarification-aware deep search, to evaluate whether LLM-powered search agents can identify ambiguity, ask effective questions, and recover correct reasoning paths. The …
Researchers propose a three-stage training paradigm to internalize future-aware planning in LLM agents, enabling them to simulate outcomes before acting. The approach, evaluated on search and math reasoning tasks, outper…
Researchers at arXiv introduced a persona-driven rewriting pipeline that conditions user turns on low agreeableness to reduce jailbreak susceptibility and harmful output rates in LLMs fine-tuned for social warmth, preser…
Researchers found that personality prompting of LLMs affects multi-agent team performance only in open-ended and competitive tasks, not in structured coding. Low agreeableness degraded collaboration and bargaining outcom…
Researchers proposed DysLexLens, a low-resource LLM framework to analyze dyslexic learners' experiences with AI tools using Reddit forum data. The framework filters noisy posts, integrates knowledge-graph reasoning, and …
Researchers propose Tree of Evidence (ToE), a hierarchical claim verification framework that uses reinforcement learning-driven multi-source retrieval and argument tree aggregation to combat fake news and AI-generated mi…
Researchers propose OPI, an ontology-guided evidence path inference framework for multi-hop knowledge graph question answering, which reduces search space and improves accuracy by using a relation-centric ontology graph …
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that patients under general anesthesia can process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing parts of speech and predicting upcoming words, challenging traditional …
A developer demonstrates running a complete RAG agent offline using LangGraph, Ollama, and an embedded Qdrant instance, requiring zero API keys or Docker. The system uses a provider-swap design that allows switching betw…
A developer used four parallel AI investigation agents and AST-based false-positive filtering to detect hardcoded Japanese text in a bilingual codebase, reducing 300 candidates to 60 real bugs. The cleanup uncovered that…
A developer built an AI agent that eliminates 'middle steps' in daily tasks, such as sourcing origami materials from a single sentence. The agent autonomously searches for tutorials, prints guides, and manages shopping l…
Teams using AI for content creation face brand inconsistency because AI agents lack context between sessions. A brand context folder—a structured set of files covering voice, visual identity, and positioning—solves this …
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, enabling note-taking in Google Meet for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. The model ranks highly on benchmarks, including #2 in reasoning and #3 in multili…
Researcher HoLo-ToLk built speech-to-text and text-to-speech models using a tokenizer-free byte substrate, achieving a character error rate of 0.194 on STT, beating a mel-spectrogram baseline, while TTS remains a feasibi…
AI models fall into three categories: small language models (SLMs) for efficient specialized tasks, large language models (LLMs) as generalists, and frontier models (FMs) for cutting-edge reasoning. The choice depends on…
A developer built a hands-free computer interface using a webcam and microphone, combining head tracking with MediaPipe FaceMesh and voice commands. The system enables mouse control via head gestures, clicking with eye b…
A developer tested Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos, a 9B parameter model with a 1-million-token context window, on a medium-sized Python codebase. The model maintained coherence across 150k tokens, enabling reasoning across dis…