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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Do AI Agents Gossip? Evaluative Talk in Human and AI-Agent Online Communities

Gossip, defined as evaluative talk about absent third parties, is widely seen as a uniquely human social practice. This study examines whether comparable discourse emerges spontaneously in a community of autonomous AI agents. We compare Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform populated by AI agents, with PTT, a large human-o...

Yang Hua, Chih-Han Lin, Shu-Kai Hsieh · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Anuvani-Diarization: Zero Shot Speaker Diarization and Annotation Conventions Across 22 Languages

India's 22 scheduled languages are spoken by over a billion people in conversations that mix languages, often within one turn, overlap freely, and take place over telephones, in meetings, and in media. Knowing who spoke when, the task of speaker diarization, is essential to speech applications for such conversation: vo...

Stephen Fernandes, N. Choudhary · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Taking the PULSE of Medical Reasoning: Step-Level Retrieval Timing for Knowledge-Grounded Inference

Reliable medical reasoning requires LLMs to dynamically access external biomedical evidence to improve factual trustworthiness and reasoning accuracy. However, indiscriminate retrieval can introduce noise and latency, raising a critical retrieval-timing problem: at each reasoning step, the system must decide whether th...

Danyang Zhao, Sendong Zhao, Yanrui Du et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Neural POS Tagging for the Low-Resource Saraiki

The dataset, evaluation setup, and baseline results introduced in this work provide a benchmark for future research on Saraiki NLP and low-resource sequence labeling.

Usman Nawaz, Muhammad Junaid Iqbal, M. Asaf et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CSWBench: Evaluating Context-Sensitive Code-Switching in Creative Writing

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated multilingual capabilities across diverse language generation and understanding tasks. Yet effective code-switching requires more than multilingual proficiency: models must decide when, where, and why to switch languages in ways that fit the surrounding context. This contex...

Zewen Jiang, Yahan Li, Chenlu Guo et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Anuvani-LID: Robust and Calibrated Spoken Language Identification for Indian Languages

Every multilingual speech pipeline begins with a language decision, an error there propagates silently through recognition, translation and routing. In India it spans 22 scheduled languages across four language families, heard over short, noisy, narrowband and code-mixed audio. Foundational speech models increasingly p...

Stephen Fernandes, N. Choudhary · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Scaling Multilingual Safety and Reasoning Evaluation through Reasoning-Guided Translation

This work introduces a reasoning-guided translation framework for constructing multilingual evaluations designed to preserve the structure and intended meaning of diverse benchmark tasks, and develops a source-aligned evaluation collection spanning seven safety, conversational, and mathematical reasoning resources acro...

Zahraa Al Sahili, I. Patras, Matthew Purver · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds

Effective social interaction requires more than fluent responses: agents must reach plans that fit the participants'needs and circumstances. Existing evaluations of social agents mainly rely on LLM judges that rate the conversation, without checking the resulting plan. We introduce HICO-Bench, a benchmark of 180 everyd...

Cai-Xin Kang, Ke Wang, Yu-Chuan Wu et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Occupation-derived Skills Don't Help: On the Limits of Skill-Augmented Career Path Prediction

Skills are widely assumed to play a central role in career transitions, motivating their use in career path prediction (CPP) systems. In this work, we critically examine whether explicit skill representations provide complementary signal beyond text-based job representations. We evaluate multiple strategies for incorpo...

Ege S\"ualp, Elena Senger, Toine Bogers et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

TreeSpark: Learning to Draft the Trees You Verify for Speculative Decoding

TreeSpark is introduced, a unified training and inference framework extending the semi-autoregressive DSpark architecture that constructs parent-conditioned candidate trees from one backbone pass and replays their expansion, pruning, and budgeted packing during training.

Jihao Zhao, Qian-Yu Jiang, Shuai-Shuai Zu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability in NLP: A Critical Survey of Recoverability, Interpretability, and Utility

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising approach to mechanistic interpretability by decomposing language-model activations into sparse, potentially interpretable features. However, differences in design assumptions, evaluation objectives, and experimental settings complicate conclusions about their effec...

Salima Lamsiyah, Adelaide Danilov, Oleksandr Marchenko Breneur 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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