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How Do LLM-Generated Texts Impact Term-Based Retrieval Models?

This paper investigates the influence of LLM-generated content on term-based retrieval models, and reveals that LLM-generated texts exhibit smoother high-frequency and steeper low-frequency Zipf slopes, higher term specificity, and greater document-level diversity.

Wei Huang, Ke-Ping Bi, Yin-Qiong Cai et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Enhancing Knowledge Density via Hierarchical Context Pruning for Retrieval-Augmented Repository-Level Code Completion

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has advanced repository-level code completion by retrieving external code snippets, API documentation, or type definitions to expand the model's contextual awareness. However, under the finite token budget of the context window, existing retrieval-augmented methods often saturate th...

Xiaohan Chen, Xiang Chen, Yu Tian et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

X-Alpha: An AI Quant Researcher with Memory-Driven Self-Evolution

Human quantitative researchers mine alpha through an iterative process: they derive hypotheses from financial knowledge, implement and test them as factors, and use the resulting evidence to guide subsequent research. Yet automated alpha mining faces three key bottlenecks: noisy financial knowledge is not directly acti...

Fengyuan Liu, Yuchen Fu, Yuqi Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning at the Right Pace: Adaptive Data Scheduling Improves LLM Reinforcement Learning

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning (RL) post-training. However, existing RL post-training commonly relies on uniform data sampling, which ignores the semantic structure of the training data and the evolving capability of the training policy. To address...

Zicheng Xu, Ruixuan Zhang, Yu-Neng Chuang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLMs Infer Cultural Context but Fail to Apply It When Responding

Recent work has shown that LLMs overrepresent dominant cultures, particularly Western ones, while marginalizing others. We investigate whether this affects models' ability to generate culturally adapted responses by evaluating their use of local measurement units based on the user's perceived cultural background. We in...

Yisong Miao, Jian Zhu, Vered Shwartz · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reasoning without Gold Standards: A Proxy-Judge Theory of Autoformalization

Autoformalization (AF) requires both prover acceptance and fidelity to an informal source, but prover acceptance alone cannot establish fidelity, and expert-validated reference formalizations are costly to obtain. We introduce a reference-free proxy-judge framework, which separates correctness into grounding, statement...

Lei Xu, Xin Quan, Andr\'e Freitas · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Is Text All You Need? Text as a Universal Information Bottleneck for Speech LLMs

Large language models (LLMs) provide a powerful reasoning backbone for speech understanding, but integrating continuous acoustic signals into a pretrained LLM remains challenging. A central design question is how to tie speech representations to the LLM's text input space while preserving the continuous variation neede...

Ming-Hao Hsu, Yuxuan Hu, Shujie Liu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can Crowdsourcing Survive the LLM Era? A Community Survey on Human Data Collection

The widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as writing tools challenges the validity of crowdsourced data, as crowdworkers may outsource tasks to models. To better understand how this is addressed, we surveyed 155 researchers in NLP and related disciplines about their experiences and opinions on collecting free-...

Aswathy Velutharambath, Neele Falk, Sofie Labat et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SimCT: Recovering Lost Supervision for Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) is a standard tool for transferring teacher behavior to a smaller student, but it implicitly assumes that teacher and student predictions are comparable token by token, an assumption that fails whenever the two models tokenize the same text differently. Under heterogeneous tokenizers, exact...

Jie Sun, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Emotion Consistency Analysis of Large Language Models in Emotional Conversational Contexts

In this work, we conduct an analysis to examine the consistency of Large Language Models (LLMs) with respect to their own generated responses in an emotionally-driven conversational context. Specifically, the text generated by LLM is framed as a query to the same model, and its responses are subsequently assessed. This...

Sneha Oram, Ojaswita Bhushan, Tejomay Kishor Padole et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What Makes Good Instruction-Tuning Data? An In-Context Learning Perspective

Instruction-tuning datasets often contain substantial redundancy and low-quality samples, necessitating effective data selection methods. We propose an instruction data selection framework based on weighted in-context influence (wICI), which measures how effectively each candidate example reduces instruction-following...

Guangzeng Han, Xiaolei Huang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MIXAR: Scaling Autoregressive Pixel-based Language Models to Multiple Languages and Scripts

Pixel-based language models are gaining momentum as alternatives to traditional token-based approaches, promising to circumvent tokenization challenges; however, existing models remain English-centric and are hard to train as generators. This paper introduces MIXAR, the first generative multilingual pixel-based languag...

Chen Hu, Yintao Tai, Antonio Vergari et al. · 0 citations

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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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