Running prompt tokens through fewer routed experts during prefill is a simple way to make mixture-of-experts (MoE) serving cheaper, yet it is unclear what this damages. We locate the damage with token-, layer- and attention-path interventions on short-answer question answering in four MoE families. At half the experts...
A common way to make language models and agents more accurate is to spend more compute at inference time: generate many candidate solutions and submit the one a verifier prefers. Success then requires that some candidate is correct and that the verifier picks it. The first grows predictably with the number of samples;...
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become a scalable post-training paradigm for large language models. However, training agents over long-horizon interactions presents two challenges: using only terminal rewards makes turn-level credit assignment sparse and high-variance, while sequential mini-batch upd...
Heming Zou, Qi Wang, Yi-Xiu Mao et al.· 1 citation
This design introduces a rewritable proposal that uses additional compute to improve expressivity while keeping the simple mask-based transition schedule of MDMs, and fine-tune Qwen2.5-7B and Qwen3-8B to obtain LED-\texttt{7B} and LED-\texttt{8B}, respectively.
Yu-Yan Zhou, Ze-Yuan Yang, Yuxuan Song et al.· 0 citations
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Results identify reward-preserving training structure as a practical route to lower per-step cost in short-window RLVR, and single-problem evaluations provide supporting evidence of retained reasoning quality.
Bang Yang, Hong-Bo Ma, Rui-Han Guo et al.· 0 citations
This work evaluates how accurately large Language Models predict the impact of self-generated ML experiment ideas before these are put into training runs to show that current LLMs have useful but limited intuition about which ML ideas will work.
Ayush Bansal, Aldo Pareja, S. Klein et al.· 0 citations
This paper observes that when a safe model is recursively self-distilled on its own (safe) generations while receiving an additional non-harmful cue, it becomes increasingly misaligned across a diverse set of harmful queries; it is called Progressive Misalignment.
Karim Abdel Sadek, F. Di Gennaro, Fanny Yang· 0 citations
This work tests whether learning a specific factual binding produces a later relearning advantage beyond familiarity with its entity, answer vocabulary, format, or query slot, and whether that advantage remains positive after adjustment for measured pre-relearning behavior.
It is concluded that horizontally scalable, log-based messaging, combined with fault-tolerant, in-memory and micro-batch computation and durable, replicated storage constituted the technical foundation that made real-time, ML-driven enterprise analytics feasible within this period and that this layered architecture con...
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Recent advances in Language Model (LM) agents have increasingly focused on repository-level software engineering (SWE) tasks, leading to various agentic workflows, training methods and failure analysis. Interestingly, rather than directly generating or evaluating edit patches, these approaches first examine and improve...
Large language models (LLMs) offer a compelling approach to entity matching (EM) in label-scarce settings, yet their matching quality is sensitive to records with ambiguous or sparse attributes due to the absence of external factual grounding. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) directly addresses this grounding gap b...
Chuangtao Ma, Zeyu Zhang, Arijit Khan et al.· 0 citations
Despite their advanced reasoning capabilities, state-of-the-art Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) still lack a core component of human intelligence: the ability to "read the room" and assess deception in complex social interactions. To rigorously evaluate this limitation, we introduce Multimodal Interactive Dece...
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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.
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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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