Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have become an increasingly popular means of translating Large Language Model (LLM) hidden state vectors into a human-comprehensible list of features or symbols. As such, SAEs may provide insight into an LLM's knowledge representation and internal ``mental'' grammar - topics of pragmatic inte...
Jacob Solinsky (University of Minnesota), Serguei Pakhomov (University of Minnesota)· 0 citations
We validate our previous hypothesis that a language model holds relational patterns apart from the subject domains that instantiate them (Nordfors, 2026). These archetypal contexts are patterns of relations that people recognize across many fields, such as the tipping point or winner takes all, held once and applied ac...
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are vulnerable to compositional harm: an image and a prompt that are benign in isolation become harmful through the model's cross-modal reasoning. Recent alignment methods report strong scores on compositional safety benchmarks, but an LLM judge only measures observed behavior and c...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed as automated judges for evaluating chatbot responses. While proprietary models can achieve high agreement with human annotators, they remain costly and difficult to deploy in practical settings. Lightweight open-source LLM judges provide an attractive alternative b...
Tam\'as Janusko, Sven Kleinkop, Ricardo Bochnia et al.· 0 citations
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Genetic variants are routinely reclassified in ClinVar after a patient is tested, sometimes from uncertain to pathogenic, yet patient recontact is inconsistent, with no clear duty and responsibility diffused among labs, providers, and patients. Many affected people discuss their results in public online health communit...
Kamalakkannan Ravi, Mengshu Nie, Annapurna Poduri et al.· 0 citations
LLM-based proactive dialogue systems provide goal-directed support through sustained interaction. Fine-tuning their underlying models on externally supplied dialogue data introduces backdoor risks. Existing LLM backdoor studies primarily focus on eliciting an attacker-specified response upon trigger activation. We pres...
AI-Scientists arrived, but a world for them to grow in did not. Human scientists take theirs for granted $-$ centuries of open problems and shared ideas, waiting in the scientific literature. To AI-Scientists, that world is readable but not runnable, so we build Scientist World for them: every research paper becomes an...
Self-consistency (SC) is a widely used decoding strategy for improving chain-of-thought reasoning, but it requires sampling many complete reasoning trajectories with a preset budget. Its efficient variants reduce the cost mainly by stopping full-trajectory sampling early or distributing the number of samples across que...
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in biomedical and cognitive neuroscience, but their ability to reason reliably over heterogeneous knowledge graphs (KGs) remains unclear. We benchmark five LLMs (GPT-5.1, Gemini 2.0 Pro, Llama 3, Qwen, and BioGPT) across five KGs: DrugBank, NeuroSynth, Cognitive Atlas,...
Ali Sarabadani, Kheirolah Rahsepar Fard, Tahereh Jeirani· 0 citations
Multimodal language models can simulate different observers, yet it remains unclear how assigned perspectives reshape their internal representations and whether these changes govern their judgements. Here, we investigate the representational geometry of persona-conditioned visual interestingness in Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct...
Mathis Immertreu, Fitim Abdullahu, Thomas Kinfe et al.· 0 citations
Complex problems with limited context, such as claims, require a means to obtain additional knowledge necessary for solution reasoning. We propose a multi-agent framework, SMART, to obtain knowledge through capturing the implicit state of participating entities in a problem context. SMART curates the state knowledge as...
Can large language models (LLMs) advance theoretical computer science and resolve its long-standing open conjectures? To study progress toward this goal, we introduce TCSExam, a unified framework and benchmark covering the full range of TCS research. It evaluates theorem proving, solver engineering, and constructions a...
Yifan Luo, Zhengying Liu, Yang Yuan 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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