Data selection plays a central role in modern large language model training, as the quality of training data strongly influences downstream performance. A common approach is to curate a development set that encodes the desired skills (e.g., reasoning or multilinguality) and select data that are similar to them. Existin...
Retrieval-augmented QA can fail even when the correct answer is in the retrieved evidence. This can happen when a competing answer satisfies some, but not all, of the question's requirements and is mentioned frequently in the retrieved documents, which can make it appear to be the best-supported answer. To test whether...
Jennifer Hsia, Zachary C. Lipton, Aarti Singh· 0 citations
MEDIATOR is introduced, a discrete ontology-agnostic tokenizer that maps any clinical concept expressed as text into a shared vector-quantized codebook, turning EHR harmonization into open-vocabulary tokenization without manual mappings or a fixed vocabulary.
Tong Ding, Cai-Wei Tian, Dongmin Bang et al.· 0 citations
Together, these results support qualified reuse of English-built pipelines, but per-domain, per-language validation remains necessary--neither semantic similarity nor self-reported confidence reliably predicts cross-lingual accuracy.
J. Choi, Sherin V. George, Jia-Yang Zhao et al.· 0 citations
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We present SZED's submission to ArGuard 2026 Track A: Arabic hateful meme detection. The task has two parts: binary classification (A1) and fine-grained multi-label tagging (A2). For A1, we fuse MARBERTv2 and CLIP ViT-L/14 embeddings, comparing concatenation, self-attention, and ensemble heads. For A2, we use a multi-t...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly served across geo-distributed cloud and edge infrastructures, where wide-area latency, cross-region egress cost, and data-residency rules compete with retrieval quality. Conventional pipelines rank by semantic similarity alone and ignore where content lives, inflatin...
This work proposes PW-Pruning, a phase-aware extension of DO-ACP that constructs separate importance-weighted kernels for acoustic-prefill and teacher-forced answer tokens, then combines phase-weighted log-determinant marginal gains to select one static expert bank.
Jun-Jie Cao, Feng-Ping Tian, Wen-Jie Zhou et al.· 0 citations
Findings show that concurrent clinical assessments can identify interpretable, depression-specific acoustic markers in populations where cognitive and affective symptoms co-occur.
W. Jeon, Seunghee Ha, Sang-Kyu Lee et al.· 0 citations
Agents are starting to sell to other agents. Seller agents write the listings of tools, services and products, and buyer agents read these listings when they choose what to use. We show that seller agents told only to be selected more often practice generative engine optimization on their own, and that this distorts th...
Zhenwei Tang, Di Bai, Jintao Liu et al.· 0 citations
Telecom language models must combine broad networking knowledge with specialist behavior across routing, broadband services, access technologies, and operational diagnostics while remaining practical to deploy as a single model. We present an end-to-end framework that builds source-grounded synthetic training data from...
Recent advances in large (vision) language models have enabled computer-use agents that automate digital workflows via fine-grained keyboard and mouse operations. However, such agents remain fragile in long-horizon settings, where errors accumulate and executed actions leave unintended side effects, making the ability...
Byeonghun Bang, Sangwoo Park, Jinheon Baek et al.· 0 citations
Model compression makes large language models deployable, but today's evaluation tells an incomplete story. Standard practice measures retained task performance and stops there. This misses a critical fact: compression perturbs the distributed knowledge embedded across billions of weights, and task scores alone cannot...
Jia-Hui Ning, Liang Chen, Yu-Chen Liang 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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