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The paper investigates how mainstream document converters lose formatting cues—specifically highlights and colours—when turning Word or PDF files into tokens for enterprise agents. Using a dataset of 76 policy documents, the authors show that this loss dramatically degrades agents’ ability to recover author‑specified requirements, dropping micro‑F1 scores from 0.690 to as low as 0.075. The study also demonstrates that explicitly adding cues back into the text can partially recover performance and that the issue is measurable and inexpensive to fix.
The paper reports on a deployed multi‑agent tender‑response system that uses an open‑weights language model under sovereignty constraints. In a blind comparison, the system’s answers were judged at least as good as human‑written bids in 40 of 55 sections, with only a few gaps attributable to missing knowledge rather than writing quality. The study also demonstrates an asymmetry in conditioning: while structural markup improves reading tasks, converting instruction material from prose to nested XML degrades answer quality, and naming forbidden constructions concentrates defects.
arXiv:2608. 09093v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How a document's arrangement is written down, its notation, is a training variable that no dataset card records.
arXiv:2608.31016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ambient AI scribes draft clinical notes, and published audits find their dominant error is omission: information the encounter established that the n...
arXiv:2609.23953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents that carry a multi-step computer task through on their own became ordinary tools in the past year, and the same autonomy is available to anyo...
A 0.6B language model consistently answers YES to 1,200 logical tests, yet its behavior shows no discrimination. Linear probes reveal the correct verdict with high AUC (0.96) and transfer to unseen structures, but a single scalar readout fails due to a saturated decision threshold offset by +4.6 σ. Adjusting this threshold restores behavior accuracy from 50 % to 81 % and improves higher‑scale models, demonstrating that miscalibrated readouts, not hidden knowledge loss, drive performance gaps.