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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

AMLworld-Compact: Importance-Weighted Downsampling for Cost-Effective LLM Evaluation and Error Diagnosis

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) on AMLworld's smallest test splits is costly because each of over a million targets requires a separate graph prompt. Sampling reduces this cost, but small balanced subsets change unweighted precision and F1. We introduce AMLworld-Compact, an evaluation set that retains every ill...

Natapong Nitarach, Phume Ngampornsukswadi, Pittawat Taveekitworachai et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Training User Simulators with Latent Intrinsic Feedback

User simulators are gaining attention as environments to train LLM assistants that can better cope with the nuances of multi-turn conversations with real users. Prior work on user simulation has emphasized generating realistic user utterances, leaving unexplored their potential as a source of direct feedback on the ass...

Tarek Naous, C. Boutilier, Wei Xu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

BLiMPPI: Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for Polarity Items

Negative polarity items (NPIs), such as"anymore"and"ever", are grammatical only in select environments, predominantly in the context of negation. Because their grammaticality depends on both syntax and semantics, they have a rich, multilingual literature in theoretical linguistics, yet work on NPIs in language models i...

Arzu Burcu Güven, Anna Rogers, Leonie Weissweiler et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

zip2zip++: Towards Inference-Time Token Compression with Minimal Quality Loss

Dynamic vocabularies built on-the-fly via Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression let a language model represent the same text in fewer tokens, but prior work shows that this efficiency comes at a cost to reasoning and perplexity. We show that this quality gap is not a fundamental price of compression but can be substantial...

Sai-Bo Geng, A. Gentilini, Xin Ma et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Measuring Artifact Reliance in Machine-Generated Text Detectors

Detectors of machine-generated text score almost perfectly on scientific-literature benchmarks, implying we can reliably distinguish with these detectors human and machine-generated documents. We looked at ten scientific-document subsets from six popular resources, and on several of them that apparent ease is a side ef...

Anastasia Voznyuk, Andrey Grabovoy · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Personalization Without Stereotyping: Do Speech LLMs Know When to Turn a Deaf Ear?

Recent speech LLMs can leverage rich paralinguistic cues, enabling more complex and personalized interactions. However, little work investigates how this sensitivity can lead to stereotyping, and existing evaluations largely measure demographic disparities without distinguishing beneficial personalization from stereoty...

Kshitij Ambilduke, Caroline Brun, Thibaut Thonet et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Proactive Agentic Orchestration

Agentic orchestration delegates tasks to sub-agents with independent contexts, providing a key path to extending the effective execution horizon of large language model agents. However, existing orchestration methods face two limitations: in execution, current methods fix sub-agents'goals and harnesses at creation time...

Xue-Yang Feng, Chao-Zhuo Li, Xiao-He Bo et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Better Metric Will Not Save You: What You Compare Beats How You Compare It

Representational similarity measures (RSA, CKA, Procrustes) are chosen for the transformations they treat as irrelevant, and all of them take the set of conditions as given. That set is fixed by two decisions, which inputs are admitted and how they are grouped, both taken before the matrix a measure operates on exists:...

Noureddine Khaous (LLF - UMR7110, UPCit\'e), Guillaume Wisniewski (LLF - UMR7110 et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Book Open access Oct 2026

Towards Enriching Design-Time Models with Evidence from Simulation and Operational Activities

Cyber-Physical Systems are developed through multiple model-based activities, comprising several stages of development. As the development progresses through simulation, experimentation, and operation, observations of system execution may reveal missing, uncertain, or invalid design knowledge. The path from execution r...

Barbara da Silva Oliveira, Julien Deantoni, Nicolas Ferry · 0 citations

Towards the Roof of the World: NLP Progress in Tibetan Languages

Tibetan, spoken by some seven million people on and around the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, remains underrepresented in natural language processing (NLP). We present, to our knowledge, the first peer-reviewed systematic bibliometric survey of Tibetan NLP: 140 publications from 2004 to 2026 in the ACL Anthology and DBLP, ann...

Xi Cao, Yi-Jie Li, Yuan Sun et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MoPrO-SD: Modular Prompt Optimization for Stance Detection

Stance detection remains challenging for large language models (LLMs) due to implicit opinions, sarcasm, and context-dependent expressions of stance. Although automatic prompt optimization offers an alternative to fine-tuning without updating model parameters, existing structured approaches are not specifically designe...

Meysam Sabbaghan, Nikesh Gyawali, Arman Zareian Jahromi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Structure to Validity: Mechanism-Guided Generation and Refinement of LLM Rubrics

Rubrics have been widely used to evaluate and optimize language models on open-ended tasks. However, existing work primarily focuses on generating better rubrics, with limited understanding of what makes rubric design effective. In this work, we conduct a systematic mechanistic analysis of rubric design across criterio...

Feifei Qian, Xuan Chen, Lixin Cui 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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