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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

PACT: A Pragmatic Prompting Framework for Expressive and Voice-Preserving Speech-to-Speech Translation

PACT is proposed, a target-space pragmatic prompting framework for expressive and voice-preserving S2ST, which achieves the best overall performance among evaluated systems across content fidelity, voice preservation, and expression preservation metrics.

Yu-Chen Song, Satoshi Nakamura · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TRACESTEER: Trace Driven Activation Steering for Hallucination Mitigation in Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive LLMs, yet remain susceptible to hallucination. Activation steering offers a promising mitigation approach by guiding parallel token predictions through internal representations. However, existing steering methods largely o...

Xin Zhang, Yili Wang, Yue Tan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Attacking Only Half the Data: Two-Sided Evaluation of AI-Text Detector Robustness

We investigate the robustness of widely used AI text detectors under attacks applied to both human and machine text. Prior evaluations typically attack only machine text, overlooking that human text is routinely modified through grammar correction, formatting, or invisible character insertion. We introduce a two-sided...

Apu Chandraw Shill, Rabindra Nath Nandi · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

SparPR: Runtime KV-Cache Recovery for Resource-Constrained LLM Inference on Consumer Hardware

Running large language models (LLMs) on consumer hardware is bottlenecked by the key-value (KV) cache, which grows with every decoded token and quickly exhausts the memory and bandwidth of a single consumer GPU. We present SparPR (Sparse Partial Recomputation), a runtime KV-cache recovery mechanism that does not modify...

Jie Deng, Ke-Ming Hu, Yang-He Liu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Cheap, Consistent, Calibrated, but Biased? Typed Decision Models as Judges

Typed decision models (TDMs) return a probability for each allowed answer instead of generating text, which makes them candidates for cheaply replacing LLM judges that compare two answers. Whether they share the biases of LLM judges is untested. We run the CALM benchmark's bias tests on eight TDMs and seven LLM judges...

Fabian Lukassen, Christoph Weisser, A. Silbersdorff · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Narrative Lookahead in LLMs: Event-Level Decodability, Predictive Advantage, and Steering

Do language models carry information about narrative events before writing them, and how far ahead? We examine narrative lookahead through salient, state-changing events rather than tokens or response-level attributes. We extract 23,355 LLM-annotated events from 2,000 stories generated by four open-weight LLMs, labelin...

Donghoon Jung, Min Kim, Seojin Choi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

From Agents to Edges: Paired Optimization for Multi-Agent Collaboration

Strong individual agents do not guarantee effective collaboration. Communication must align what one agent conveys with how another interprets and uses it. This dependency makes the communication edge a natural unit of optimization. We introduce Paired Automated Communication Optimization (PACO), which jointly optimize...

Feng Lin, Xiao-Tian Yu, Yi-Fan Yang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

A Benchmark for Bangla Task-Oriented Dialogue Understanding

Task-oriented dialogue understanding remains underexplored for Bangla, particularly in multilingual settings involving English and romanized Bangla (Banglish). We introduce BanglaTOD, a parallel tri-lingual benchmark comprising 209 multi-turn dialogues across nine Bangladesh-specific service domains and 64 intents. Eac...

Afrina Alam Lamia, Sumiaya Sharif, Prottoy Modak et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Machine--human agreement in marking undergraduate assignments is specific to model, prompt and institution

Large language models (LLMs) promise to automate one of higher education's most resource-intensive activities: assessing student writing. Existing evaluations are typically limited to a single model, a single prompt and a single institution. Using 761 undergraduate psychology assignments from three UK universities, we...

Giulio Corsi, Maryam Abo-Tabik, Yael Benn et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively

Large language models have evolved from single-turn chatbots into interactive agents capable of long-horizon reasoning. In real deployments, MCP tool services can return noisy feedback and users may intervene to correct the agent, but existing methods provide limited supervision for reflection learning and failure reco...

Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang, Jiajie Jin et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Batch-Paced: Fixed-Budget Batch Decoding in Discrete Diffusion Language Models

As generative language models become more capable and widely used, inference demand grows, making efficient serving increasingly important. Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) offer a promising path to more efficient inference through parallel token generation. Prior dLLM decoding methods, however, focus on impr...

Shuai Zhang, Zhan-Chao Zhou, Hua-Chuan Qiu 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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