Large language models are expected to estimate their own uncertainty, with confidence signals used to guide retrieval, adaptive compute allocation, routing, and selective abstention. We investigate whether confidence signals measured at different temporal stages of problem solving encode distinct forms of epistemic inf...
Sahil Kale· Proceedings of the 10th Wide...· 0 citations
In object goal navigation (ObjectNav), an embodied agent must find a target object (e.g., "find a bed") in a previously unseen environment, relying on spatial commonsense such as object co-occurrence. Large Language Models (LLMs) encode this commonsense, but deploying them on robots exposes a trade-off between reasonin...
Pengying Wu, Zhejia Wen, Kang Ding et al.· 0 citations
This work ablate a production pipeline that turns conference speech into question-answer pairs, and finds that more than a third of its pairs carry knowledge that neither of two frontier models produces on its own.
Temperature scaling is typically applied as a post-hoc transformation of model probabilities. In posterior-induced flow language models, this creates two mismatches. First, posterior tempering implicitly changes both the endpoint distribution and the distribution of intermediate noisy states, while the denoiser remains...
Ensuring the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with diverse cultural values is critical for their safe global deployment. However, existing alignment benchmarks are predominantly English-centric or confined to simple discriminative tasks. Moreover, they often fail to effectively evaluate model robustness agains...
Li-Ping Yang, Yong-Qi Leng, Jing-Ting Zheng et al.· Proceedings of the 2026 Conf...· 0 citations
Together, the findings support a claim-indexed reporting standard that connects each claim to the evaluation design needed to test it, and evidence for repeatability and improved procedures remains less developed than product evaluation.
The WORTH Benchmark is proposed: models read original mystery narratives without clue annotations, autonomously select key clue sentences, identify case participants, and explain their reasoning process, and it is suggested that not-fully-cooperative informational relationships may influence evidence selection and judg...
When unique pretraining data is scarce, models see the same tokens many times and are thought to memorize. Random-token replacement, an input-corruption augmentation, is one remedy reported to lower validation loss, but a lower loss alone does not reveal which source of error it reduces. On a controlled source whose en...
Factual recall is a lookup: some representation inside the network serves as the key, and what that key is made of decides which queries can retrieve the fact, what an edit must cover, and what a retriever can read. We call it the factual access state. In autoregressive (AR) models the subject position enriches attribu...
Experiments on DAIC-WOZ demonstrate superior depression assessment performance over specialized depression detection methods and general-purpose speech/omni-LLMs, along with improved reasoning quality, while supplementary evaluation on EATD-Corpus supports AudiPsy's applicability to naturalistic conversations.
Chuanbo Zhu, Run Luo, Wei-Bo Zhao et al.· 0 citations
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used within everyday applications where their responses have significant downstream impacts. For responsible deployment of such systems, we desire insight into how much we can trust their individual outputs. A popular approach for estimating LLM confidence is to train probe...
Recent multimodal LLM (MLLM)-based anomaly detection (AD) methods can generate textual explanations that help interpret their predictions. However, reliably and efficiently evaluating these explanations remains challenging. While LLM judges can assess explanations through structured rubrics, they often require substant...
Qizhou Wang, Jiawen Zhu, Guansong Pang 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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