Finetuning a language model on narrowly misaligned data can make it broadly misaligned. Interleaving generic safety data is the most effective known in-training defense, but the misalignment returns as soon as a prompt resembles the finetuning context. We argue that this conditional misalignment is a spurious correlati...
Device-cloud speculative decoding reduces server computation, but growing a deep draft tree with a small language model (SLM) requires repeated passes on a mobile neural processing unit (NPU). We present HyCo, which assigns depth to the server model's native multi-token prediction (MTP) head, executed on the device, an...
Hanbin Bae, Heejin Choi, Joohyung Lee et al.· 0 citations
Distribution shifts pose a fundamental challenge to robust multimodal learning. Existing methods typically promote invariance by suppressing environment-dependent variations, implicitly applying a uniform treatment to shifted information. However, shifted information can have different predictive consequences: some con...
Block Influence (BI) ranks Transformer blocks for depth pruning from their input-output cosine change, but the ranking depends on the calibration distribution. We study whether English calibration transfers to Indian languages in Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct, Llama-3.2-1B, and Gemma-2-2B. English, Hindi, Marathi, and Tamil us...
Vedant Pandhare, Piyush Dhoka· 0 citations
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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) math corpora are routinely screened for benchmark overlap, but the reliability and data-loss costs of cleaning policies remain underexamined. We audit sixteen open RLVR math corpora comprising 1,673,514 corpus-specific training items against six benchmarks containin...
Extracting insights from textual data while protecting user privacy is increasingly important. Existing methods produce private insights in diverse forms for different analytical purposes, making their utility difficult to assess and compare. In this work, we formulate differentially private (DP) insights as reusable r...
Kai Chen, Gui-Si Ni, Albert Cheu et al.· 0 citations
To use language models to help us make decisions we would like to understand the rationale behind the language model's outputs. In principle, the language model provides its rationale as part of its text output. However, the sheer volume of text makes this hard to use in practice. In this paper, we are interested in ex...
David Reber, James Reber, Ari Holtzman et al.· 0 citations
Reordering multiple-choice options can change a model's answer, an effect studied as selection bias (a preference for certain option letters) and as order sensitivity (changes in answers across option orderings). We connect these perspectives through the pooled selection-rate standard deviation (pooled SD), which measu...
Typology-aware tokenizers are motivated by the claim that segmentation which respects morpheme boundaries preserves information that frequency-driven segmentation destroys. Studies routinely establish that it helps while assuming the boundaries must be linguistically correct. We separate them. Tagalog marks voice with...
Abdul Rehman Antall, Baidya Nath Saha· 0 citations
We introduce CascadeLedger, a counterfactual execution-audit framework for budgeted language-model cascades. The protocol enforces call-before-read semantics, binds successful reads to service and cache identities, records availability and component-wise budget transitions, and freezes the event trace before any target...
Miaobo Hu, Shuhao Hu, Xiaobo Guo et al.· 0 citations
Long chain-of-thought decoding is memory-bound: the KV cache of the generated tokens grows linearly with the test-time compute being spent. Evicting cache entries does not fix this, because a model never trained on a cache with entries removed generates longer, often up to the length limit. We instead train the model t...
Jack Cai, Lijie Yang, Vasilis Kontonis et al.· 0 citations
The development of Financial Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems for Brazilian Portuguese is hindered by the scarcity of domain-specific datasets. To address this, we present a large-scale corpus of approximately 160,000 Brazilian Portuguese financial news articles collected from web sources. To establish initial...
Leomax Bandeira, Gabriel Aguiar, Dalton C\'ezane Gomes Valadares et al.· 0 citations
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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