Dimensionality reduction can preserve the average performance of text embeddings even when a substantial fraction of their dimensions is removed. Aggregate metrics, however, do not reveal whether degradation is distributed uniformly across examples. We study per-example neighborhood stability under PCA truncation acros...
Longer contexts allow large language models (LLMs) to condition their predictions on more information, but inference costs grow prohibitively with context length. An emerging alternative uses test-time updates to encode context as temporary changes to model weights. However, encoding this information into weights that...
Yue Wang, Qi-Zhou Wang, Feng Liu et al.· 0 citations
Soft tokens have so far been used to replace discrete chain-of-thought in latent reasoning methods. These approaches typically require multi-stage training and, in some cases, auxiliary modules, yet they still underperform supervised fine-tuning (SFT) ontriples. In this paper, we ask whether soft tokens can be used to...
Mohammad Fahes, Cordelia Schmid, Anurag Arnab· 0 citations
Existing interpretability tools do not test whether a representation keeps the same content when only the phrasing changes. We treat each paraphrase pair as a local witness that two activations should agree and build a cellular sheaf over the paraphrase graph; its Laplacian $L_\mathcal{F}$ answers the question on a fro...
Bryce Grant, Peng Wang· 1 citation
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Tool-using LLM agents are increasingly used to automate workflows governed by procedural manuals, such as company rules for booking travel or procuring hardware. These manuals are written in natural language for humans and describe general requirements over such complex workflows. Ensuring compliance of LLM agents with...
Ashwani Anand, Ivi Chatzi, Ritam Raha et al.· 0 citations
Most prior work on predicting mental health help-seeking treats it as post-hoc classification of users already active in clinical communities, which cannot tell whether someone approaching a transition can be identified in advance. We instead frame help-seeking as a time-to-event problem and ask which Reddit users will...
Nisar Ahmed, Ammara Kazmi, Irtaza Bashir Raja et al.· 0 citations
An exact target-alignment formula is given and a strict speculative accepted-prefix advantage is proved throughout an unrestricted open neighborhood of a constructed target of finite-law existence results.
Sentence representation learning is still an open challenge in Natural Language Processing. In this work, we propose a new self-supervised framework for learning sentence representations, using a special type of neural network called a recursive hypernetwork. Our proposed model composes the representation of a sentence...
Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, John Kelleher· 0 citations
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is reshaping how large language models (LLMs) acquire reasoning capabilities, yet the optimizers used remain largely inherited from teacher-forcing training. This raises a fundamental question: does RLVR induce a distinct optimization geometry that calls for a diffe...
Zhi-Peng Chen, Wayne Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen· 0 citations
Preference alignment enables language models to better reflect human values, but the preference data contains sensitive information, especially when derived from surveys about political beliefs, social norms, religion, gender attitudes, and cultural values. This paper studies privacy-preserving alignment on questionnai...
Which context tokens drive a language model's answer? Graph-based tools such as attention rollout and attention flow answer this from a single forward pass, yet their faithfulness in decoder-only models is rarely tested against interventions. We view the layers of a decoder as a causal network whose conductances are at...
Speech timing is fundamental for speech models to recognize words accurately, but how word-timing information is represented in speech models remains underexplored. We study this question using the framework of representational geometry, which investigates whether and how concepts are represented in low-dimensional sub...
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.
A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
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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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