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

Stability Regimes for Framing-Sensitive Fine-Tuning in Language Models

AI systems increasingly shape how individuals access and evaluate information, intensifying concerns about misinformation. Computational simulation offers a controlled complement to direct empirical study, with fine-tuned LLMs enabling powerful agent-based simulations. However, fine-tuning often induces broad behaviora...

Victor De Lima, Jiqun Liu, Grace Hui Yang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AEIOU: A Unified Defense Framework against NSFW Prompts in Text-to-Image Models

As text-to-image (T2I) models advance and gain widespread adoption, their associated safety concerns are becoming increasingly critical. Malicious users exploit these models to generate Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images using harmful or adversarial prompts, underscoring the need for effective safeguards to ensure the int...

Yiming Wang, Jiahao Chen, Qingming Li et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Feb 2022

Media Slant is Contagious

This paper examines the diffusion of media slant. We document the influence of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the partisan slant of local newspapers in the U.S. over the years 1995-2008. We measure the political slant of local newspapers by scaling the news article texts to Republicans’ and Democrats’ speeches in Congress...

Philine Widmer, Clémentine Abed Meraim, Sergio Galletta et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VietAIDetector: An Open-Source Zero-Shot Detector for Vietnamese AI-Generated Text

Distinguishing AI-generated content from human-written text in Vietnamese remains difficult due to the limited availability of dedicated open-source tools. In this paper, we present VietAIDetector, an open-source software tool designed for practical Vietnamese AI-generated text detection. Operating on a zero-shot scori...

Trieu Hai Nguyen, Van-Dung Hoang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Time as Structure: Temporal Dependency Graphs for Verifiable Deadline Computation over Legal Documents

Miss a filing deadline by one day and the claim is barred, however strong the case. Computing that deadline is rarely simple: the period runs from a triggering event, is counted by a statutory convention, and may be suspended by a mandatory conciliation window. We ask whether a language model should answer such questio...

Maryia Zhyrko, Suzan Verberne, Lifeng Han · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scaling Creative Writing Beyond Story-Centric Data with Attribute-Guided Genre Expansion

High-quality creative writing data for large language models (LLMs) remains dominated by story-centric data, limiting models' ability to follow the structural and functional conventions of diverse creative formats. We propose an attribute-guided genre expansion framework for scaling creative writing data beyond story g...

Hwan Chang, Yongil Kim, Heuiyeen Yeen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models

Instruction tuning is meant to make language models follow user requests, yet it is unclear whether small models comply when an instruction conflicts with their usual task behavior. We study this across three tasks - multiple-choice question answering (MCQA), sentiment classification, and mathematical question answerin...

Mahdiyeh Farajidizaji, Vatsal Raina · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLMs Silently Correct African American English: Auditing and Mitigating Dialect Bias via Activation Steering

African American English (AAE), a rule-governed dialect spoken by over 30 million people, is routinely misinterpreted and "corrected" by large language models (LLMs). Across six instruction-tuned LLMs (14B to 70B), we show that state-of-the-art models systematically prefer Standard American English (SAE) continuations...

Huan Wu, Ali Emami, Muhammad Furquan Hassan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

STAGE: Source-grounded Text-to-JSON Artifact GEneration

From financial filings to clinical records, legacy industries rely heavily on long, unstructured documents to store high-value information. Reliably extracting this information into structured, machine-readable representations is a key prerequisite to making the contents accessible to automated systems. JSON is a natur...

Sunghee Ahn, Guijin Son, Youngjae Yu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FORT-Searcher: Synthesizing Shortcut-Resistant Search Tasks for Training Deep Search Agents

Training deep-search agents requires verifiable questions that demand substantial evidence acquisition, yet structurally complex tasks may still admit cheap identifying routes when clues are overly selective, co-covered by the same evidence, directly searchable, or resolved from solver priors. We formalize this gap wit...

Jia Deng, Yimeng Chen, Xiaoqing Xiang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VISTA: A Versatile Interactive User Simulation Toolkit for Agent Evaluation

Evaluation remains a critical bottleneck for interactive agent development. Existing evaluation methods often rely on static benchmarks, which fail to capture the dynamic, multi-step nature of agentic behavior and struggle to expose meaningful failure modes. While user-simulation-based evaluation offers a promising alt...

Yunan Lu, Ryan Shea, Yusen Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SkillHarm: Lifecycle-Aware Skill-Based Attacks via Automated Construction

Agent skills occupy a privileged position in the agent workflow, as agents are expected to implicitly follow and execute them, rendering third-party skills a vulnerable attack surface. Existing studies have revealed unsafe agent behaviors induced by skill-based attacks, but they primarily evaluate poisoned skills withi...

Yuting Ning, Zhehao Zhang, Yash Kumar Lal 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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