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

QuantEval: A Benchmark for Financial Quantitative Tasks in Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in finance-oriented question answering, yet their evaluation on professional quantitative workflows remains fragmented and often stops at factual or document-grounded QA. We introduce QuantEval, a benchmark for evaluating whether LLMs can complete the compute-...

Zhaolu Kang, Junhao Gong, Wenqing Hu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reclaiming Low-Quality Instruction Data with Rule-Guided LLM Reconstruction

Data selection for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) often discards low-scoring instruction examples that may retain useful supervision. We propose a rule-guided LLM reconstruction framework to reclaim this information. The framework identifies low-scoring samples through LLM-based rating and score correction, selects seman...

Zile Yang, Ling Li, Na Di et al. · 0 citations

LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!

The results provide significant, multi-perspective evidence that social effects of data could be a causal driver of LLM capability decay in continual pre-training, thereby motivating routine"cognitive health checks" for deployed and evolving LLMs.

Shuo Xing, Junyuan Hong, Yi-Fan Wang et al. · 3 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A large-scale pipeline for LLM-assisted corpus annotation: variation and change in the English consider construction

As natural language corpora expand at an unprecedented rate, manual annotation remains a significant methodological bottleneck in corpus linguistic work. We address this challenge by presenting a scalable pipeline for automating grammatical annotation in voluminous corpora using large language models (LLMs). Unlike pre...

Cameron Morin, Matti Marttinen Larsson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EconCausal: A Context-Aware Economic Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models

Socio-economic causal effects depend heavily on their institutional and environmental contexts. The same intervention can produce different, even opposite, effects across regulatory regimes, market conditions, time periods, or populations. This poses a challenge for large language models (LLMs) in decision-support role...

Donggyu Lee, Hyeok Yun, Meeyoung Cha et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Eigen-Agent: Adaptive Multi-Agent Scientific Reasoning with Monitor-Based RAG

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong progress on scientific reasoning, yet two major bottlenecks remain. First, explicit retrieval fragments reasoning, imposing a hidden "tool tax" of extra tokens and steps. Second, multi-agent pipelines often dilute strong solutions by averaging across all candidate...

Xiangru Tang, Wanghan Xu, Yujie Wang et al. · 0 citations

Scaling Personality Control in LLMs with Big Five Scaler Prompts

Big5-Scaler is presented, a prompt-based framework for conditioning large language models (LLMs) with controllable Big Five personality traits that induces consistent and distinguishable personality traits across models, with performance varying by prompt type and scale.

Gunhee Cho, Yun-Gyung Cheong · 7 citations · ⚡1

Majority Bit-Aware Watermarking For Large Language Models

A novel message encoding paradigm is proposed called \textit{majority bit-aware encoding}, which relaxes the watermark signal strength from the green list size, which allows for a strong watermark signal to be preserved in generated texts even when using a large green list.

Jiahao Xu, Rui Hu, O. Kotevska et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Is This Just Fantasy? Language Model Representations Reflect Human Judgments of Event Plausibility

Language models (LMs) are used for a diverse range of tasks, from question answering to writing fantastical stories. In order to reliably accomplish these tasks, LMs must be able to discern the modal category of a sentence (i.e., whether it describes something that is possible, impossible, completely nonsensical, etc.)...

Michael A. Lepori, Jennifer Hu, Ishita Dasgupta et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

$\pi$-CoT: Prolog-Initialized Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Multi-Hop Question-Answering

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting significantly enhances large language models' (LLMs) problem-solving capabilities, but still struggles with complex multi-hop questions, often falling into circular reasoning patterns or deviating from the logical path entirely. This limitation is particularly acute in retrieval-augment...

Chao Wan, Albert Gong, Mihir Mishra et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Assessing and Refining ChatGPT's Performance in Identifying Targeting and Inappropriate Language: A Comparative Study

This study evaluates the effectiveness of ChatGPT, an advanced AI model for natural language processing, in identifying targeting and inappropriate language in online comments. With the increasing challenge of moderating vast volumes of user-generated content on social network sites, the role of AI in content moderatio...

Baran Barbarestani, Isa Maks, Piek Vossen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting

Automated research with LLM agents has shown promising results in various domains. Through iterative refinement and scored verifiers, LLM agents are capable of discovering new ideas. There are different ways to scale automated research: let one agent iterate for longer, run several agents in parallel, or further let th...

Shangyin Tan, Ben Zhou, Lakshya A Agrawal 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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