Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) allow social scientists to analyze video at scale, but researchers must decide which parts of a video to provide as input. We use the term representation validity to examine how text, audio, video, and combined inputs affect measurement and subsequent analysis. We compare input...
Christian Pipal, E. Vogel, Morgan Wack· 0 citations
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) can process interleaved text and multiple images in a single context, but how they internally identify the image relevant to a question remains poorly understood. We study this grounding step as in-context image retrieval and introduce ICIR-MCQ, a controlled probe for head-level ana...
Junsung Park, Sangwon Yu, Donghun Kang et al.· 0 citations
A text-to-SQL answer can run, return a plausible number and still compute something other than what the analyst meant. This can happen when the request leaves a calculation choice open, such as whether to count rows or distinct entities, and the model settles it without saying so. Standard benchmarks cannot detect this...
Two-tier LLM serving escalates selected requests from a small model to a large one, but prompt-based routers cannot see whether retrieved evidence supports an answer, and they treat the GPU cost of an escalation as constant. We study TRIAGE, which conditions escalation on a post-generation reliability state and on a lo...
Basavaraj R M, Aryan Bharat Kumar· 0 citations
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This work introduces a working-memory-inspired probe of cumulative state tracking with program-computed answers, 3 to 100 updates, and final-state, intermediate-state, or multi-target queries and compares protocols on identical items.
Deng-Zhe Hou, Ling-Yu Jiang, Deng-Jie Li et al.· 5 citations
Building on a human-led thematic analysis of clinical life-story interviews (> 150,000 words) with inpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder, this study examines the capacity of large language models (OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude) to support qualitative clinical analysis. The models' inte...
Marcin Moskalewicz, Anna Sterna, Karolina Dro\.zd\.z et al.· 0 citations
Skill memories encode past experiences as textual prompts to improve reinforcement learning (RL) for self-evolving agents. Complementing RL, On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) provides dense, fine-grained supervision to internalize knowledge from skill-guided trajectories and accelerate policy learning. However, self-g...
Dian Jin, Jinluan Yang, Kairong Han et al.· 0 citations
Looped transformers increase effective depth by repeatedly applying a shared set of transformer layers, offering a parameter-efficient way to scale computation. However, standard residual connections aggregate information across recurrent depth into a single stream, providing limited control over which intermediate rep...
Yue-Kun Yao, Yu-Pei Du, Da-Wei Zhu et al.· 0 citations
Financial question answering can fail even when a model extracts a plausible number from the supplied evidence: the answer may attach it to the wrong entity, period, unit, or accounting concept. Asking the model to verify and revise its draft can help, but open-ended revision may alter content that was already correct...
Celine Guo, Weida Liang, Yujian Fu et al.· 0 citations
Long-horizon decision-making under sustained competition requires large language models (LLMs) to balance immediate investment with future resource needs. However, local success in multi-step interactions can not adequately capture cumulative decision effects or demonstrate long-term goal achievement under resource con...
Large language models are deployed as long-horizon agents that compose diverse tools across MCP services into executable workflows. Existing MCP environment-scaling methods are data-centric: they first synthesize a database and scenario, then derive tools and tasks from them. As a result, tool interfaces may not match...
Guanting Dong, Zhichao Sun, Xinyu Yang et al.· 0 citations
Interpretability often locates concepts by copying part of a language model's state from one input into another (activation patching). A larger output change counts as stronger evidence that this part carries the concept. Methods that learn which part to copy often change the output more than the whole state does. By t...
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.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
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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