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

Beyond the greenwash: do LLMs' ecologically sound decisions hold up under pressure?

Humans are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) in decision making processes throughout society. Unfortunately, models have biases, and these can be very difficult to measure, especially in closed-weight models. For example, 'green washed' models may produce reinforcement learned responses but, in pressure s...

Trent R. Northen, Mingxun Wang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PAIR: Memory-Efficient and Fast Inference with Reading--Reasoning Fusion

For context-based question answering, using one large model for both evidence extraction and answer reasoning requires substantial memory and computation. Existing approaches trade accuracy for efficiency within a single model only. We propose a multi-model approach for efficient inference: our method, PAIR, employs tw...

Sejun Park, Haocheng Xia, Yongjoo Park · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Mixed Feelings, Single Polarity

Emotion datasets are routinely mapped onto positive and negative valence, by assigning each emotion category one polarity. We test where this works and where it fails, using SemEval-2018 Affect in Tweets (English, Arabic, Spanish), Affective Text aligned with EmoBank, raw GoEmotions annotations, naturalistic hashtag co...

Emily Sofi Öhman, Saif M. Mohammad · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Natural Language Processing for Aligning Readings with Learning Objectives and Assessing Topic Balance in Dental Education

Curriculum teams often lack time to check whether assigned readings support learning objectives (LOs) and whether topic coverage is balanced. We present a natural language processing (NLP) workflow to support evidence-informed curation of reading lists. The workflow combines PubMedBERT sentence embeddings and cosine si...

Farzana Yasmin, Tahereh Firoozi, Rojin Adabdokht · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

More Reasoning Is Not Always Better: Executing Clinical Guidelines with LLMs and Rules

Large language models (LLMs) have shown considerable promise in clinical decision support. However, existing approaches often rely on multi-step reasoning or multi-agent collaboration to execute clinical guidelines, introducing substantial computational overhead without reliably preventing decision errors. To address t...

Xiao-Qian Lu, Guang-Fu Guo, Long Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RIVO: Lightweight Adaptive Rerouting for Deep Research Agents

Deep Research agents rely on long-horizon reasoning and iterative tool use to solve complex information-seeking tasks. However, adaptive decision-making over these trajectories remains challenging, as agents may stop prematurely when further evidence is needed, continue unnecessarily after sufficient evidence has been...

Mingchen Li, Jiatan Huang, Hong Yu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Unchecked or Falsely Accused? Evaluating AI-Generated Text Detectors on Kazakh

AI-text detectors are already applied to Kazakh writing, yet no study reports how often publicly available detectors flag Kazakh text whose human authorship is dated before ChatGPT. We present AINA-KK: 3,811 human passages from encyclopedic, news, web and educational pages that provably existed before ChatGPT, and 5,59...

Mansur Ozaman · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Binding Phoneme Identity to Position in Neural Models and the Human Brain

A fundamental challenge in cognitive science and neural computation is the binding problem. Compositional generalization can be achieved by factorizing representations into roles, the structural slots of a representation (e.g., serial position or syntactic function), and fillers, the contents occupying them (e.g., a ph...

Nafiseh Momeni, Malo Renaudin, Itzhak Fried et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

RSIPO: Recursive Self-Improving Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Skill-Policy Co-Evolution

Recent focus in agentic reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to improve credit assignment in long-horizon tasks. One promising direction combines reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and on-policy self-distillation (OPSD), integrating trajectory-level advantages with dense token-level supervision. This li...

Fan Zhang, Hao Wu, Jin-Yang Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NepPlural: A Human-Anchored Benchmark for Persona Annotation in Nepali Migration Discourse

Pluralistic alignment asks that language models faithfully represent a society's diverse, competing values rather than collapse them into one dominant viewpoint, yet flagship pluralistic-alignment datasets remain heavily skewed toward Western respondents. We introduce NepPlural, a human-anchored benchmark for modelling...

Jinu Nyachhyon, Anish Khatiwada, Bimal Timilsina · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TL;QR: Querying Temporal Discursive Patterns in Textual Corpora

Many questions about large textual corpora concern patterns that unfold over time, such as a political group whose stance on a topic drifts from support to criticism over several years of debates. We present TL;QR (Too Long; Query with logical temporal Reasoning), a declarative query language and open-source engine for...

Fran\c{c}ois Hublet, Vladimir Krsmanovic, Jesus Solano et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Do LLM Tutors Actually Teach? A Process-Centered Synthesis of the Tutoring Loop

It is argued that progress requires validating the interfaces between tutoring stages, not only improving individual components, and that progress requires validating the interfaces between tutoring stages, not only improving individual components.

Sayantan Adak, Rima Hazra, Koyel Mukherjee 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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