Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to generate a long reasoning chain when solving complex tasks. However, as the reasoning chain extends, critical intermediate steps and the original prompt will be buried in the context, receiving insufficient attention and leading to errors. In this work, we present ATAR, a novel reas...
This survey categorises six primary text-conditioned generative modalities and examines how four techniques, namely self-supervised learning, mixture of experts, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and chain-of-thought prompting, are adapted across them, distinguishing shared mechanisms from experimentally supp...
Longzhen Han, Awes Mubarak, Almas Baimagambetov et al.· 1 citation
Typhoon, a masking strategy that uses the gradient of the MLM loss with respect to one-hot token inputs to estimate online how much each token type contributes to the objective, is introduced and evaluated against random masking and whole-word masking.
Bruce Changlong Xu, Muhammed Shahir Abdurrahman, Hashem Elezabi· 0 citations
A counterfactual evaluation framework that separates selected records (targets) from the applied change (an update) is introduced and four executions combine proposed and reference targets and updates to measure the effects of correcting or retaining each component and their interaction.
Heng-Yu Ye, Song-Hua Hu· 0 citations
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Recursive self-improvement (RSI) requires agents to diagnose system bottlenecks and coordinate improvements across training and inference. We refer to the agents' capability to jointly optimize training data, the trainer, and the inference harness as cross-component co-design. We introduce VibeTraining-Bench, a benchma...
Ruotian Peng, Yuanyi Ren, Shuaiqi Liu et al.· 0 citations
When a language model answers a factual question, where does its internal state go? We asked four open models (Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen2.5-7B, Gemma-2-9B and Llama-3.2-1B) 2,256 factual questions whose answers recur, such as the country a person is a citizen of. At every layer, we recorded the state from which the answer is...
Mathematical reasoning remains underexplored for low-resource languages, including Dialectal Arabic. To bridge this gap, we introduce the DAR-MGSM (Dialectal Arabic Multilingual Grade School Math) Benchmark, the first manually curated benchmark for evaluating mathematical reasoning in Dialectal Arabic. DAR-MGSM consist...
Noor Abo Mokh, Teresa Lynn, N. Habash et al.· 0 citations
Agentic on-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student agent on its own trajectories while a teacher scores every token. A natural explanation of where it goes wrong is compounding error: the student's mistakes carry its trajectories beyond the region where the teacher is reliable, so recent methods keep training inside...
Continuous flow language models offer a path to parallel generation with tools for control and acceleration unavailable to discrete diffusion, yet effective techniques for building them at the billion-parameter scale remain less established. We present Lafa (Large flow language model), a fast, high-performing flow lang...
Arnav Chavan, Chanhyuk Lee, Udbhav Bamba et al.· 0 citations
Discrete diffusion models iteratively denoise a noisy sequence of categorical data such as text, enabling any-order generation with self-correction and in-filling capabilities. This makes them promising candidates for reasoning, planning, and constrained-generation tasks like coding and math. Yet masked and uniform dif...
Rodrigo Casado Noguerales, Dimitri von R\"utte, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf et al.· 0 citations
For efficient deployment of large language models (LLMs), methods of ultra-low-bit backbones reduce weight storage, memory traffic, and linear-layer execution cost, while multi-token prediction (MTP) methods reduce sequential decoding steps by predicting multiple future tokens in parallel. Although complementary, the d...
Ning Zhang, Shihao Wang, Jinrui Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Large language models leave model-specific traces in their generated text, but it remains unclear how finely these fingerprints can distinguish related models and which signals remain informative as obvious cues are reduced. We study this through fingerprint resolution, considering both model resolution, from different...
Mohammad Reza Modarres, Armin Tourajmehr, Artin Tavasoli et al.· 0 citations
Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations appeared first on Microsoft Research.
A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.
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