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

The Necessity of Setting Temperature in LLM-as-a-Judge

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated judges, yet decoding temperature is often set by intuition rather than evidence. We run over one million large scale evaluations, multiple open-source models, prompting strategies, and judging paradigms to examine how temperature affects judge reliability....

Lujun Li, Lama Sleem, Yangjie Xu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explanation Generation for Contradiction Reconciliation with LLMs

Existing NLP work commonly treats contradictions as errors to be resolved by choosing which statements to accept or discard. Yet a key aspect of human reasoning in social and professional settings is the ability to hypothesize explanations that reconcile contradictions. For example, "Cassie hates coffee" and "She buys...

Jason Chan, Zhixue Zhao, Robert Gaizauskas · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Writer-R1: Dynamic Rubric Mining for Reinforcement Learning of Open-Ended Writing

Training models for open-ended writing requires diverse prompts and sufficiently precise specifications of response quality. Constructing such specifications at scale entails recovering task requirements, consolidating overlapping criteria, and defining observable differences between performance levels. We introduce Wr...

Jihao Zhao, Shuaishuai Zu, Zhiyuan Ji et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mind the Shift: Decoding Monetary Policy Stance from FOMC Statements with Large Language Models

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statements are a major source of monetary-policy information, and even subtle changes in their wording can move global financial markets. A central task is therefore to measure the hawkish--dovish stance conveyed in these texts. Existing approaches typically treat stance detection a...

Yixuan Tang, Yi Yang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BASIS: Evaluating Belief-Aware Solutions in Interactive Settings beyond Instructions

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly capable of carrying out complex, long-horizon tasks, yet effective assistance requires more than faithfully executing user instructions. Users' requests reflect their current understanding of the problem, which may be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect. When this under...

Minyuan Ruan, Ziyue Wang, Kaiming Liu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Composition-RL: Compose Your Verifiable Prompts for Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models

Large-scale verifiable prompts underpin the success of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), but they contain many uninformative examples and are costly to expand further. Recent studies focus on better exploiting limited training data by prioritizing hard prompts whose rollout pass rate is 0. However,...

Xin Xu, Clive Bai, Kai Yang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MoCo: A One-Stop Shop for Model Collaboration Research

Advancing beyond single monolithic language models (LMs), recent research increasingly recognizes the importance of model collaboration, where multiple LMs collaborate, compose, and complement each other. Existing research on this topic has mostly been disparate and disconnected, from different research communities, an...

Shangbin Feng, Yuyang Bai, Ziyuan Yang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EnsembleLink: Accurate Record Linkage Without Training Data

Record linkage, the process of matching records that refer to the same entity across datasets, is essential to empirical social science but remains methodologically underdeveloped. Researchers treat it as a preprocessing step, applying ad hoc rules without quantifying the uncertainty that linkage errors introduce into...

Noah Dasanaike · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Large Language Models Naively Recover Ethnicity from Individual Records

I demonstrate that large language models can infer ethnicity from names with accuracy exceeding that of Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) without additional training data, enabling inference outside the United States and to contextually appropriate classification categories. Using stratified samples from Flori...

Noah Dasanaike · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MBBQ: A Dataset for Cross-Lingual Comparison of Stereotypes in Generative LLMs

Generative large language models (LLMs) have been shown to exhibit harmful biases and stereotypes. While safety fine-tuning typically takes place in English, if at all, these models are being used by speakers of many different languages. There is existing evidence that the performance of these models is inconsistent ac...

Vera Neplenbroek, Arianna Bisazza, Raquel Fern\'andez · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EVA-Cap: Optimizing Audiovisual Video Captioning via Event-Centric Alignment

Recent advances in Omni Language Models (OLMs) provide a unified solution for audiovisual video captioning. Nevertheless, existing approaches predominantly treat captioning as an unstructured text generation process, neglecting the inherent semantic structure of videos and leading to suboptimal fine-grained audiovisual...

Jiapeng Shi, Qiuxia Hou, Jiaqi Leng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Documenting Trofinetide Treatment Phenotypes in Rett Syndrome with a Dual-LLM Consensus Pipeline

Objective: Trofinetide, approved in 2023 as the first Rett syndrome treatment, lacks scalable real-world monitoring because chart review is labor-intensive. We developed a dual large language model (LLM) consensus pipeline to extract 18 treatment-response phenotypes, comprising 4 adverse effects, 13 Rett clinical featu...

Daniel Palacios, Guantong Qi, Mikael Guzman Karlsson 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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