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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

A Plausible Explanation Is Enough to Mislead Multimodal Judges

JUPE, a visual-question-answering (VQA)-style benchmark that fixes answers while varying explanations is introduced, finding a significant mean shift in decision criterion toward acceptance, without a clear change in mean discriminability.

Ang-Lin Cai, Zhi-Qi Wang, Xiao-Zhi Yang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Trajectory-Guided Steering: Mitigating Spurious Feature Bias in Clinical Classification

Large language models rely on spurious features in clinical classification: swapping a single gender token in clinical notes alters gender-irrelevant diagnoses in up to 53.5% of cases. Existing inference-time corrections either need counterfactual data built around the specific spurious feature or behave unpredictably....

Fardin Ahsan Sakib, Ziwei Zhu, Ozlem Uzuner · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Does Uncertainty Measure RAG Hallucination Risk?

Uncertainty can measure hallucination risk in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), but only when retrieved evidence constrains the answer. When evidence is present, unsupported factual claims become less likely; when retrieval coverage is poor, the model can answer from internal knowledge and assign high probability t...

Rajeel Ahmad Ansari, Tautik Agrahari · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Broad and Efficient PII Detection with Unified Labels

This work presents a practical 141M-parameter encoder-based detector trained on 1.12 million examples from 77 public datasets, relabeled under a detailed definition of broad contextual detection for 12 structured PII categories, delivering leading detection performance at substantially lower cost.

Andy Hsu, K. Berlin · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Model Knows Better: Defending Medical Multi-Agent Systems Against Prompt Injection

Medical multi-agent systems, in which LLM agents discuss a case, are increasingly studied for clinical decision support. Prompt injection, text that an attacker adds to a model's input, can manipulate LLMs into wrong decisions. How it affects these systems, and how to protect them, remains unclear. Across two systems,...

Fardin Ahsan Sakib, Ziwei Zhu, Ozlem Uzuner · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

SAG2: Embedding-Free Multi-Hop Retrieval with BM25 and JEV

Strong multi-hop retrieval should be practical to deploy without expensive corpus preparation or complex database infrastructure. We present SAG2, an embedding-free retrieval architecture built around a single SQLite database, BM25, and contextual evidence decisions from JEV. SAG2 follows the query-time association pri...

Yu-Chao Wu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mitigating Demographic Disparities in Explanation-Human Alignment via Rationale Regularization

We study explanation fairness in hate speech detection. High classification performance does not always mean that a model produces equally plausible explanations for different demographic groups. Using the HateXplain dataset, we introduce Plausibility-EFG, a metric that measures the largest difference in explanation pl...

Suryansh Talukdar (Purdue University Fort Wayne), Taha Sarwat (Purdue University Fort Wayne), Jonathan Rusert (Purdue University Fort Wayne) · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Who Do Perspectivist Models Predict Well? Annotator Agreement, Sparsity, and Performance

Successful completion of perspectivist natural language processing (NLP) annotation tasks requires algorithms to be aligned across diverse perspectives in order to predict how different humans will rate text. This work studies how the performance of such algorithms varies for annotators who behave differently than othe...

London Lowmanstone, V. Sivakumar, A. Samaddar et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cultural (In)Competence: Investigating Culture-Specific Stereotype Detection Capabilities of LLMs

Stereotypes are subjective constructs that are mediated by the cultural context in which they are viewed. Successfully modeling them thus also requires cultural competence. When using large language models (LLMs) for stereotype-related tasks, such as their detection, it is therefore crucial that models can access relev...

Maximilian Splieth\"over, Jannes L\"otfering, Dominik Bachmann et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Pearl-Chat: Engineering a native Luganda language model from first principles in JAX and Flax NNX

Autoregressive foundation language models predominantly target high-resource Indo-European languages, imposing computational and morphological penalties on under-represented African languages. Generic multilingual tokenizers routinely exceed fertility rates of 3.2 tokens per word on agglutinative Bantu languages, degra...

Wesley Kambale, Roland Sankara · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Literal Lock-In: How Test Language Shifts Literal Attraction in Typed Decision Models on Bengali Idioms

Decision models, non-generative scorers that report a probability over caller-supplied options and emit no text, are increasingly deployed as routers, classifiers and guardrails. Because they generate nothing, rationales and chain-of-thought do not apply. We audit three: an encoder scorer, a decoder scorer and a closed...

Adib Sakhawat, Syed Rifat Raiyan · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

alkhder at AlexandriaX-2026: Context-Aware English-to-Dialectal Arabic Dialogue Translation with QLoRA-Fine-Tuned NileChat-3B

This paper describes team Alkhder's submission to Subtask 1 of the AlexandriaX-2026 shared task, which asks systems to translate English dialogue turns into thirteen Arabic dialects. We fine-tune NileChat-3B-Base with QLoRA on the Alexandria parallel dialogue corpus, training one set of adapter weights for all dialects...

Hasan Alkhder, Maher Pasa, Maria Hanini 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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