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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Multimodal Co-Generation With Continuous Bitstream Diffusion

We show that continuous bitstream diffusion (CoBit), originally developed for language modeling, provides a unified framework for joint and conditional multimodal generation using the same training and sampling protocol. Across image-text, speech-text and protein sequence-structure modeling, models are trained separate...

Georgios Batzolis, Georgios Kontos, Bruno Trentini et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Evaluating LLMs as Agentic Workflow Executors in Real-World Customer Support Skills

Enterprise customer-support agents increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to execute bounded, tool-using workflows. We study this problem through the lens of Skill LLMs: specialized executors that operate within a selected skill context and must complete a narrow, stateful workflow under policy and tool cons...

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Gundeep Singh, Xue-Yong Fu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

ASSET: Adaptive Speech Segmentation via Reinforcement Learning

Speech large language models (LLMs) are often built using pretrained acoustic encoders as an audio interface to an LLM decoder. However, LLMs scale poorly with input sequence length, while acoustic encoders tend to produce substantially longer sequences than typical textual inputs. This motivates learning to compress e...

Ci-Han Xiao, Yuan Tseng, Matthew Wiesner et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Thinking Leakage in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

Hybrid reasoning models such as the Qwen3 series switch between a THINK mode and a NO-THINK mode through a few chat-template tokens. A popular recipe trains such models with reinforcement learning in NO-THINK mode and reports improved reasoning performance. We provide evidence that much of this gain can be explained by...

Wenxuan Zhu, Shuming Liu, Bang An et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Modeling the Arrival Time of Information-Bearing Events in Natural Language

Understanding how information is distributed over time is fundamental to modeling natural language. While existing empirical studies primarily rely on post-hoc analysis of information-theoretic metrics, such as surprisal, little is known about the generation processes under the surface. We propose a novel approach for...

Leyi Lao, Yulin Ou, Yang Xu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Fin_Agent at FinEval 2026: Task-Aware Methods for Multilingual Financial NLP

We present Fin_Agent, our submission to the FinEval 2026 shared task on multilingual fi nancial language understanding. Our sys tems address Greek financial named-entity recognition, Japanese implicit communication recognition, and multilingual financial ques tion answering. For Greek NER, we com bine annotation-aware...

Mohotarema Rashid, Tanzina Hossain, Xiao-Ying Song et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GALA: Generation-Aware Cross-Modal Alignment for Text-to-Time-Series Synthesis

Synthesizing time series from natural language is emerging as the most expressive form of controllable time series generation. However, existing text-conditioned generators either take caption embeddings frozen from off-the-shelf text encoders, or adapt the encoder end-to-end, letting the denoising loss shape the embed...

Haochen Zhang, Gengwei Zhang, Laura Yao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Federated Language Models Under Bandwidth Budgets: Distillation Rates and Conformal Coverage

Hospitals, companies, and research consortia want language models that learn from, and answer questions over, data that must stay where it is held, over links with limited bandwidth, such as the satellite links of remote clinics and ships. Averaging the sites' model parameters makes each message grow with the model and...

Prasanjit Dubey, Xiaoming Huo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ControBench: An Interaction-Aware Benchmark for Controversial Discourse Analysis on Social Networks

Understanding how people argue across ideological divides online is important for studying political polarization, misinformation, and content moderation. Existing datasets capture only part of this problem: some preserve text but ignore interaction structure, some model structure without rich semantics, and others rep...

Ta Thanh Thuy, Jiaqi Zhu, Xuan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

KMMMU: Evaluation of Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding in Korean Language and Context

Multimodal evaluation is strengthened when benchmarks reflect the languages, institutions, and disciplinary conventions that shape expert visual reasoning. We introduce KMMMU, a native Korean benchmark built from Korean-native examination materials. KMMMU contains 3,466 questions spanning nine disciplines and nine visu...

Nahyun Lee, Guijin Son, Hyunwoo Ko et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probe and Skip: Self-Predictive Token Skipping for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

Long-context inference enhances the reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs), but incurs significant computational overhead. Token-oriented methods, such as pruning and skipping, have shown great promise in reducing inference latency, yet still suffer from inherently insufficient structure optimization, out...

Zimeng Wu, Donghao Wang, Chaozhe Jin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Agentic AI System for Multi-Framework Communication Coding

Clinical communication is central to patient outcomes, yet large-scale human annotation of patient-provider conversation remains labor-intensive, inconsistent, and difficult to scale. Existing approaches based on large language models typically rely on single-task models that lack adaptability, interpretability, and re...

Bohao Yang, Rui Yang, Joshua M. Biro 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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