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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Estimating Uncertainty of Omnimodal Large Language Models via External Omnimodal Embeddings

Recent work has investigated Omni-modal Large Language Models (OLLMs), models which can take multiple modalities and their combinations as input, as a way forward to have systems really capable of interacting with their environment. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) for OLLMs, however, remains an open problem: existing m...

Iacopo Ghinassi, H. La, Luke Ong · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

SpecGuardBench: Can Coding Agents Construct Reliable Validation Harnesses from Natural Language Specifications?

As coding agents become more capable, tests remain the primary evidence for judging whether their code is correct. Yet passing available tests does not establish that an implementation satisfies its natural language specification. Reliable validation requires checks that faithfully capture the specification and scenari...

Zhiqing Zhong, Ming-Yu Chen, Ao-Yang Fang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Label Collapse in Diffusion Language Model In-Context Learning

A systematic evaluation of ICL failure modes is presented, complementing contemporaneous studies of dLLM context comprehension and demonstration-order sensitivity, and open questions about how iterative denoising interacts with label biases are identified.

Zi-Ye Guo, Ye Yuan · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Multilingual Artificial Hivemind: Do All LLMs Think Alike in Every Language?

Text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) often remains limited in diversity compared to that produced by humans. Recent advances demonstrate the presence of inter- and intra-model collapse in open-ended generation of English text, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of LLM, and more importantly, h...

Xaver Raphael Davey, Shubhra Mishra, Anton Adel\"ow et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

Lost in Contrast: Instruction-Preserving Decoding for Reliable Visual Question Answering

Visual contrastive decoding corrects answers using the prediction difference between the original image and a reference condition, yet the same contrast also turns supported abstentions into incorrect answers. We find that abstentions are lost at two stages: contrastive decoding with candidate filtering can exclude the...

Hao-Nan Zhang, Ting Jin, Wen-Zhong Tang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

What Is the"Self"of a Large Language Model?

What could the"self"of a large language model be, if it is neither a particular word nor a single privileged layer? We propose a relational account: a functional self is an actor-centered organization of information that distinguishes the model's recorded actions from externally supplied material while content and reas...

Yu-Chen Li, Zong-Qi Fan, Xin-Tong Li et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EHR-Bench: A Chinese Multi-Task Benchmark for Recruitment AI

Recruitment applications span diverse operations, from drafting job descriptions and interpreting queries to organizing profiles, assessing fit, and recommending candidates and jobs. Systematic LLM evaluation therefore requires task coverage that reflects this range of business needs. We introduce EHR-Bench, an open Ch...

Ruijia Yang, Bing Xu, Zulong Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SIREN: Situation-aware Index for Response and Emergency ActioNability in Crisis Translation

Machine translation (MT) is increasingly utilized in multilingual crisis communication, yet conventional evaluation does not directly assess whether translated emergency messages preserve their actionability. We introduce SIREN (Situation-aware Index for Response and Emergency ActioNability), a human evaluation framewo...

Maria Carmen Staiano, Lifeng Han, Johanna Monti et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Support or Magnitude? Characterizing Neuron Relevance for Instruction Data Selection

Model-internal signals, such as neuron activations and gradients, have been used for instruction data selection, yet how neuron relevance should be characterized remains underexplored. In particular, should selection prioritize the magnitude of relevance or how broadly it is distributed across neurons? To investigate t...

Yifan Le · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Intent-Triggered Anchoring for Multi-Token Format Units in Parallel Decoding of Diffusion Language Models

Enter intent-triggered anchoring, a training-free decoding rule that completes a format unit once the model commits its first token, inserting only units with a unique, content-free completion; fallbacks write the unit when the model stops or loops without starting it.

Junhyeok Lee, Kyu Sung Choi · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Communication, Vocalisation, and Language

The contention is that the current batch of Large Language Models don't *understand* language, but they *do* it. Rather than LLMs forming some kind of ``distributed representation'' of symbols, the claim is that LLMs are capturing ``Cultural Intelligence'' and grounding symbols in what the sociologists call practices.

Peter Wallis · 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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