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

Towards Autopilot Labeling for Short Video Content Governance

The explosive growth of short videos has presented significant challenges to content governance. Traditional manual labeling is inefficient, slow to iterate, and costly. Therefore, we explore and develop a multi-stage autopilot labeling framework aimed at progressively increasing the level of automation in short video...

Junwen Chen, Hongwei Wang, Zixuan Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rate-Resolved Text Evaluation with Masked Diffusion Language Models

A single evaluation score can rank generation systems but rarely reveals what failed. We propose rate-resolved text evaluation, which turns the masking rate of masked diffusion language models into a diagnostic axis. By reconstructing text under different fractions of masked tokens, one diffusion score becomes a vector...

Yiqi Liu, Kun Zhao, Chenghua Lin et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Feedback as an Interface: Controlling Form and Detail in LLM Translation Refinement

Feedback presentation shapes how LLMs use evaluator judgments during translation refinement. We introduce a machine translation protocol that keeps the evaluator score, main issue, and recommendation fixed while varying feedback form and supporting detail. Across seven models and six translation directions, low-load fe...

Yiqi Liu, Flavjo Tomori, Nafise Sadat Moosavi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Towards Robust Calibration Dataset for Domain-General Mixture of Experts Pruning

Post-training expert pruning is a promising deployment technique for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. The calibration set is an integral part of the pruning process, however, its correlation with evaluation performance is largely misunderstood and unintuitive. In this work, we present an empirical study of the robustne...

Luis Frentzen Salim, Chia-Chun Wu, Nhiem Tran et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Fragility and Dynamics of LLM Pruning-Recovery Steps

Structural pruning followed by a recovery stage is the standard recipe for compressing large language models (LLMs), yet the two stages are typically designed and tuned in isolation. In this work, we study how their interaction shapes the compressed model, sweeping ordering, the data that drives each stage, and the ali...

Luis Frentzen Salim, Komang Rinartha, Chia-Chun Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Interpretable Linguistically-Grounded Analysis of Scene Saliency in Movie Screenplays

We investigate the factors affecting salience in movie screenplay by posing two research questions: 1. {\em Does Uniform Information Density (UID) predict salient scenes?} 2. {\em What other linguistic properties distinguish salient scenes from non-salient background?} We answer both questions through a controlled corp...

Uday Bindal, Ishaan Karan, Manan Garg et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Apertus 1.5: From Open Text Models to Open Multimodal Reasoners

Language models are becoming infrastructure, and infrastructure built in the open, by public institutions, on documented data, is the alternative to dependence on a few providers; Apertus shows this is viable at scale. Apertus 1.5 extends the fully open Apertus family from text to multimodal reasoning. Continued pretra...

Project Apertus (ETH Zurich), : (ETH Zurich), Yixuan Xu (ETH Zurich) et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Step in the Right Place: Understanding and Optimizing Timestep Placement in Continuous Diffusion Language Models

Continuous diffusion language models represent an emerging paradigm for language modeling. They generate text in parallel by iteratively refining continuous representations and mapping them back to tokens through a decoder. However, realizing the efficiency advantage of parallel generation requires maintaining generati...

Shutian Zheng, Zhihong Yu, Linye Wei et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Concept Representations in Vector Space: Quantifying Sharedness and Idiosyncrasy of Meaning

Concepts are the basic units through which we navigate the world and communicate meaning. But do you and I really mean the same thing when we think or speak about a concept? The present study develops a measurement framework for modeling and analyzing interindividual variation in concept representations through sentenc...

Simon Josef Durstewitz, D. Buehler · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Candidate Tokens to Final Outcomes: Decoding Relative Long-Horizon Candidate Value from Reasoning Model Representations

Large reasoning models generate reasoning trajectories token by token. At a given prefix, multiple next-token candidates may be plausible, yet shape subsequent reasoning and differ in their chances of leading to the correct answer. Whether these differences are reflected in internal representations remains unclear. To...

Yixin Yang, Yue Wang, Fandong Meng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do correct answers have stable latent knowledge support?

Large language models are typically evaluated in terms of the correctness of their output. However, output correctness alone does not confirm whether the latent knowledge supporting an answer has stable internal representations. We therefore propose latent state stability (LSS) and knowledge topology stability (KTS) to...

Chuancheng Shi, Shangze Li, Wenhua Wu 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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