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#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond the Benchmark: Conditioning, Domains and Failure Modes of Qwen3-TTS

Qwen3-TTS reports state-of-the-art zero-shot voice cloning, but its technical report leaves open how the model should be conditioned, how it behaves outside read speech, and how it fails. We characterise its two cloning interfaces, in-context learning (ICL) and X-Vector, against Chatterbox, XTTS-v2 and F5-TTS on read,...

S\'everin Baroudi, Yanis Labrak, Petr Motlicek et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PresenceBench: An Exploratory Evaluation of Large Language Model Adaptation to User State

Presence-aware intelligence is the capacity of an AI system's intelligence layer to adapt appropriately to the functional state of the person it serves (here readiness, flow, and stability) while preserving task quality and safety. We introduce PresenceBench, an instrument for measuring it. PresenceBench evaluates how...

Pe\~na Arroyo Gallego, Mauro Ruiz Moreno, Alejandro Acien et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Not Every Mention Is a Claim: Rethinking Object Hallucination Detection in Vision-Language Models

Object hallucination in vision-language models (VLMs) is usually measured by checking each object a caption names against the image. Most benchmarks and detectors alike treat every object mention as a claim that the object is present. This assumption fails when a caption names an object without asserting it, as in "a b...

Hsin-Ling Hsu, Neeraja Kirtane, Kuan-Hao Huang · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Enhancing RAG-based Medical VQA with Gated Multimodal Representations

Medical Vision-Language Models (Med-LVLMs) have shown strong performance in Medical Visual Question Answering (MVQA), yet they may still produce factually inconsistent responses. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can mitigate this issue by incorporating external clinical evidence; however, retrieval is often guided...

Daniela Jimenez-Pano, Hugo Jair Escalante, Delia Iraz\'u Hern\'andez-Far\'ias · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Execution Before Memory: Diagnosing Memory Failures in Video World Models

A memory test for a video world model should say whether the scene was set, whether the asked change was carried out, and whether the last frame shows the result. Current tests fold these into one number, so a low score is easy to read as forgetting. When the change is not carried out, the hidden state transition canno...

Weiyang Jin, Jiwen Yu, Sihan Xu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

"You"Is Not Toxic: How LLM Labelers Rewrite the Web's Conversation Laws

It is proved that a fixed Cohen's kappa leaves a law nearly unconstrained, and that Threadsafe uses the labeler's scores to choose which comments human raters label and to predict the others, and corrects the predictions with the human labels; linear laws are estimated without bias whatever the labeler does.

Liang Yue, Eric A. Vance · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ScoutRoute: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Routing Using Internal Language Model Signals

Efficient expert routing is a fundamental challenge in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) systems, particularly for heterogeneous collections of independently trained Large Language Mod els (LLMs). Existing routing approaches typically rely on jointly trained gating networks, prompt-based predictors, or computationally expensive...

Rajdeep Pandhare, Delzaan Bharucha · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Robust Function Calling for LLM Agents Under Interface Drift

Tool-augmented language-model agents rely on interface text: tool descriptions, argument schemas, and the candidate tool list shown at inference time. These interfaces often change after deployment even when the underlying tool semantics remain fixed, creating a practical reliability problem for function-calling system...

Aniruddha Chattopadhyay, Kanishka Halder, Partha Sarathi Roy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Reflective Chain-of-Thought (SRCoT): Evidence-Based Text Generation via a Closed-Loop Retrieve--Reflect--Revise Pipeline on Edge LLMs

Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent outputs that lack source support or conflict with local operational constraints. We introduce Self-Reflective Chain-of-Thought (SRCoT), a modular architecture that organizes generation as a closed Retrieve--Reflect--Revise loop. SRCoT separates environment state, persist...

Fabian Broszio, Michael Hoffmann, Adrian Paschke · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SimOPD: Relational Knowledge Transfer for On-Policy Distillation

A key challenge in on-policy distillation (OPD) is extracting effective supervision from teacher knowledge. Supervision from token probabilities may underutilize internal knowledge, while direct hidden-state matching forces the student to shift to the teacher's feature space and complicates cross-architecture transfer....

Kai Tang, Xing Zheng, Haobo Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Annotrace: A Workbench for Step-Level Annotation of Agent Traces

Annotrace measures agreement between any two annotators, human or AI, and reads six trace formats, including OpenTelemetry GenAI, LangSmith and Langfuse, and turns each run into an ordered, nested list of steps.

Arun Josephraj Arokiaraj, Chen Huang, Bin Wu et al. · 0 citations

Can AI interview? Comparing AI-led to Human-led Chat Interviews

Large language model chatbots have been proposed as AI-interviewers for collecting qualitative interview data at scale, potentially bridging social science's longstanding divide between the breadth of surveys and the depth of qualitative interviews. This paper provides the first direct empirical comparison of data qual...

S. Güven, T. Gårdhus, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 22, 2026

Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

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.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2026

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

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 Oct 15, 2026

Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar

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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