Recurring expressions in model-written text are often treated as signatures of machine authorship, yet most of them serve legitimate functions. Whether such an expression is a tic depends on whether the model knows when it is called for. This judgment of appropriateness, central to communicative competence, remains lar...
Yi-Hang Peng, Yi Jing, De-Wen Liu et al.· 0 citations
External-memory systems extend language-model applications beyond a context window, but their quality depends critically on the model executing the write path: deciding what to retain, how precisely to represent it, and how new evidence should update persistent state. Existing frameworks typically place a general-purpo...
Tian-Xiang Fei, Jia-Zheng Kang, Mao Zheng et al.· 0 citations
Understanding a conversation requires connecting what is said to the speakers'relationships, expectations, and earlier exchanges. Prior work shows that supplying relevant context can improve models'social judgments, but much of this information may already be present in the conversation. This motivates training models...
Cheng-Fei Wu, Zhao-Qing Wu, Dan Goldwasser· 0 citations
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have substantially improved Text-to-SQL performance, yet existing NL2SQL systems largely assume that user queries are valid and answerable. As a result, models often generate executable SQL even for queries with flawed premises. We introduce premise critique ability in NL...
Shuo Lin, Jinzhe Li, Chenlu Guo et al.· 0 citations
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Interactive agents repeatedly choose among a finite set of actions, labels, or ordinal outcomes. Generating a free-form response for each choice adds latency and complicates the interface between a model and its environment. We present Intern-Decision, a family of 0.8B, 2B, and 4B multimodal decision models that return...
In minoritized (low-resource) language technologies, a common response to data sparsity is to aggregate text across multiple varieties and treat the combined data as a single corpus. However, mixed corpora of closely related indigenous variants can produce an artificial register that is accountable to no single speaker...
Luis A. Mercado-Campos, Alexis Palmer· 0 citations
Long-context language models support ever longer context windows, and evaluations typically treat context length as the main indicator of difficulty. However, context length alone cannot explain why models fail on long-context tasks that require reasoning over complex information. Contexts of equal length can pose very...
Shi-Wen Qin, C. Barker, Henry Gouk et al.· 0 citations
Names carry demographic indicators such as age, gender, and race, which makes them a subtle but strong target of bias in large language models (LLMs). In this work, we present an evaluation of name-based bias across 6 local large language models spanning multiple providers and parameter scales. Using a fill-in-the-blan...
Kalyan Bhetwal, Ceren Mert, Ian Whitehouse· 0 citations
Recent post-training approaches have shown that self-supervised speech encoders can be adapted to learn a single utterance-level speech attribute through knowledge distillation. In this work, we investigate whether a single speech encoder can simultaneously preserve multiple complementary utterance-level speech represe...
An agent's memory must remain useful as information changes across conversations. A new fact may replace an earlier value without making that value irrelevant to a later question. We present Temporal State Tracking Memory (TEM), a training-free framework for tracking these changes. TEM stores facts as versioned records...
This paper introduces TagInsert, a Transformer-based model that challenges the common left-to-right (L2R) generation paradigm in Transformers, for sequence labelling tasks where dependencies may not naturally align with a L2R order. TagInsert lifts the L2R constraint by removing the decoder-side attention mask and enab...
Community question-answering platforms are important ecosystems for knowledge sharing, yet research on what makes an answer best or a question engaging has often focused on either individual lexical features or broad topics. This exploratory study examines both levels in Yahoo! Chiebukuro, asking which nouns and semant...
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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