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#computer vision Preprint Nov 2026

What Does the Model See? Representation Validity in Multimodal LLM-Based Video Analysis

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
#computer vision Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Heads That Write, Not Just Point: Image Retrieval Heads in Vision-Language Models

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

Text-to-SQL Models Make Choices Without Saying So

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...

Yichen Xu, Shipei Lin, Chenhao Ma · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

TRIAGE: Reliability- and Load-Conditioned Escalation for Two-Tier LLM Serving with a Semantic Evidence Judge

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Mar 2026

WMIP: A Working-Memory-Inspired Programmable Probe of Cumulative State Tracking in Large Language Models

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Computational Phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Comparative Evaluation of LLM-Simulated Expert Personas and Human Clinical Experts

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

MDSKILL: Learning to Internalize Skill Memory through Multi-View Distillation for Efficient Dynamic Agent Self-Evolution

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
#natural language process... Preprint Nov 2026

ARLoop: Fully-Open Pre-trained Looped Transformers with Attention Residuals

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

When Self-Verification Hurts: Calibrated Answer Repair for Financial Question Answering

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

GM League Arena: An Interactive Long-Horizon Task Benchmark Based on Professional Sports League Management

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...

Junkai Zhou, Ziming Pan, Zhaoyi Zhang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

ToolSpace: Scaling Tool-Centric Environment Synthesis for Long-Horizon Agents

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

Whose Effect Is It? How Objectives Inflate Learned Subspace Interventions

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...

Toygar Tanyel, Serkan Ayvaz · 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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