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

Combining Determinism and Indeterminism

Our goal is to construct mathematical operations that combine indeterminism measured from quantum randomness with computational determinism so that non-mechanistic behavior is preserved in the computation. Formally, some results about operations applied to computably enumerable (c.e.) and bi-immune sets are proven here...

Michael Stephen Fiske · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Labadain-MedQA: A Tetun Medical QA Dataset for Fine-Tuning and Evaluating Large Language Models

Advances in large language models (LLMs) have created opportunities for cross-lingual transfer of medical knowledge from high-resource to low-resource languages to support access to healthcare information. However, medical question-answering (QA) datasets for fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs remain scarce for Tetun. To...

Gabriel de Jesus, S\'ergio Nunes · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Observatorio Lazaro: A self-populating database of anglicism usage in the Spanish press

This paper describes Observatorio L\'azaro, a language resource that monitors unassimilated lexical borrowings (predominantly English lexical borrowings or anglicisms) in the Spanish digital press. Since April 2020 the system has automatically processed the daily output of a collection of news outlets, detected borrowi...

Elena Alvarez-Mellado · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Token Time Continuous Diffusion for Language Modeling

In this paper we introduce token time continuous diffusion (TTCD), a new diffusion language model which (a) operates in continuous space, deterministically mapping Gaussian noise to a final token canvas with no further sampling, and crucially (b) incorporates a new notion of per-token times, with some tokens proceeding...

Parikshit Bansal, Sujay Sanghavi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

OLIVE: View-Augmented Latent Prediction with Waveform Reconstruction for Speech SSL

We propose Online Latent prediction with Invariant Views and rEconstruction (OLIVE), a self-supervised speech representation learning framework that jointly optimizes analysis and synthesis objectives. OLIVE couples masked latent prediction and waveform reconstruction through a functional separation within a single enc...

Karl El Hajal, Mathew Magimai. -Doss · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Reliability without Validity: A Systematic, Large-Scale Evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge Models Across Agreement, Consistency, and Bias

LLM-as-a-Judge has become the dominant evaluation paradigm for language models, but judge validation in practice relies on exact-match agreement, a metric that does not correct for chance and systematically overstates discriminative ability. We present the largest systematic evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge to date: 21 jud...

Justin D. Norman, Michael U. Rivera, D. Alex Hughes · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SAGE: Stochastic Prompt Optimization via Agent-Guided Exploration

Context engineering has emerged as a primary lever for improving AI systems without parameter updates. Recent work showing that textual gradients do not function as real gradients motivates treating automatic prompt optimization (APO) as black-box search. We introduce SPO (Stochastic Prompt Optimization), a framework f...

Ziyi Zhu, Luka Smyth, Saki Shinoda et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Fine-tuning LLMs for Passive Depression Severity Estimation from AI Mental Health Dialogue

Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet validated questionnaires such as the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) often go uncompleted, yielding sparse, biased data. Users of AI mental health applications often describe their mood, sleep and functioning unprompted, producing a continuous record of...

Olivier Tieleman, Samuel J. Bell, Ziyi Zhu et al. · 0 citations

Teaching Diffusion to Speculate Left-to-Right

An empirical analysis of three training-time interventions that raise accepted draft length by 21-76% per benchmark over a position-uniform baseline, without adding additional forward passes and without changing the inference pipeline or the rejection-sampling exactness contract.

L. Whalen, Yuki Ito, Ryo Sakamoto · 4 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

A Dual-Path Architecture for Scaling Compute and Capacity in LLMs

Looped transformers apply a shared block multiple times and have emerged as a parameter-efficient route to scaling compute in language models. However, at fixed FLOPs a looped model has strictly less capacity than a baseline transformer. We argue that compute, the number of sequential operations applied to a hidden sta...

Markus Frey, Behzad Shomali, Joachim Koehler et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Recon: Reconstruction-Guided Reasoning Synthesis for User Modeling

User modeling aims to use language models (LMs) to mimic an individual's behavior from a corpus of past context-action pairs (e.g., conversation turns), enabling the simulation of users in settings like behavioral science, human-AI collaboration, and market research. Recent approaches augment these corpora with synthes...

Alan Zhu, Mihran Miroyan, Carolyn Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Towards On-Policy Data Evolution for Visual-Native Multimodal Deep Search Agents

Multimodal deep search requires an agent to solve open-world problems by chaining search, tool use, and visual reasoning over evolving textual and visual context. Two bottlenecks limit current systems. First, existing tool-use harnesses treat images returned by search, browsing, or transformation as transient outputs,...

Shijue Huang, Hangyu Guo, Guanting Dong 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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