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#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CiteVQA: Benchmarking Evidence Attribution for Trustworthy Document Intelligence

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced document understanding, yet current Doc-VQA evaluations score only the final answer and leave the supporting evidence unchecked. This answer-only approach masks a critical failure mode: a model can land on the correct answer while grounding it in the...

Dongsheng Ma, Jiayu Li, Zhengren Wang et al. · 0 citations

SkillGraph: Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Agents via Evolving Skill Graphs

SKILLGRAPH is a framework that represents reusable skills as nodes in a directed graph, with typed edges encoding prerequisite, enhancement, and co-occurrence relations, that achieves state-of-the-art performance against memory-augmented RL methods, with especially large gains on complex tasks that require composing mu...

Xiaoyuan Li, Mo-Xin Li, Ke-Qin Bao et al. · 15 citations · ⚡1
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Limited Stereotype Control Through Routing Reweighting in MoE Language Models

Demographic prompts are routed differently from neutral prompts in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models, motivating tests of routing-level stereotype control. We introduce Fairness-Aware Routing Equilibrium (FARE), a diagnostic framework combining demographic routing profiles, empirical layer selection, and fixed i...

Junhyeok Lee, Han Jang, Kyu Sung Choi · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Jan 2026

Quantifying Retriever-Generator Alignment in RAG with Local Explanations

RAG-E is presented, an end-to-end explainability framework that quantifies retriever-generator alignment through mathematically grounded attribution methods and introduces the Weighted Alignment between Retriever and Generator (WARG) metric to measure how closely the generator's document usage aligns with retriever ran...

Korbinian Randl, Guido Rocchietti, Aron Henriksson et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Is Peer Review Really in Decline? Analyzing Review Quality across Venues and Time

Peer review is at the heart of modern science. As submission numbers rise and research communities grow, the decline in review quality is a popular narrative and a common concern. Yet, is it true? Review quality is difficult to measure, and the ongoing evolution of reviewing practices makes it hard to compare reviews a...

Ilia Kuznetsov, Rohan Nayak, Alla Rozovskaya et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LMSpell: Spell Correction with Pre-Trained Language Models

Spell correction is still a challenging problem for many languages, especially low-resource languages (LRLs). While pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been employed for spell correction, there has been no proper comparison across PLMs. We present the first empirical study on the effectiveness of the three types of...

Akesh Gunathilake, Nadil Karunarathna, Tharusha Bandaranayake et al. · 0 citations

GUI-KV: Efficient GUI Agents via KV Cache with Spatio-Temporal Awareness

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents built on vision-language models have emerged as a promising approach to automate human-computer workflows. However, they also face the inefficiency challenge as they process long sequences of high-resolution screenshots and solving long-horizon tasks, making inference slow, costly...

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Haoyi Qiu, Yu-Tong Dai et al. · 12 citations · ⚡3
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fair-GPTQ: Bias-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models

The high memory demands of generative language models have drawn attention to quantization, which reduces memory usage by mapping model weights to lower-precision integers. However, recent empirical studies show that, while efficient, quantization can increase the likelihood of generating biased outputs and degrade per...

Irina Proskurina, Guillaume Metzler, Julien Velcin · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Optimal Transport Depth Up-Scaling

Pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) from scratch at larger scales yields remarkable performance but incurs substantially high training costs. Depth up-scaling provides an efficient alternative by inserting new layers into a pre-trained LLM, avoiding training from scratch. However, most existing methods copying or...

Mingzi Cao, Xi Wang, Nikolaos Aletras · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Enabling Quantum Natural Language Processing for Hindi Language

Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) is taking huge leaps in solving the shortcomings of classical Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and moving towards a more "Explainable" NLP system. The current literature around QNLP focuses primarily on implementing QNLP techniques in sentences in the English langu...

Naman Srivastava, Gaurang Belekar, Gautami Sanjay Naik et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

FastBench: Can Streaming VLMs Perceive High-Dynamic Real-World Streams?

Streaming Video Large Language Models (VLMs) enable continuous video understanding, yet existing benchmarks focus on low-dynamic scenarios. Under bounded context budgets, models must balance temporal history, spatial resolution, and temporal granularity; sparse sampling at 1--2 FPS misses fast events. We introduce Fast...

Yuxuan Hu, Wei-Kang Shi, Yang Bo et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

ViSkill: Reinforcing VLM Agents with Evolving Visual-Native Skills

Skill-augmented agents improve sample efficiency by distilling successful trajectories into reusable strategies. Yet most existing approaches remain text-centric, linearizing spatial layouts and action-state correspondences into language that loses critical geometric structure. Recent efforts have begun incorporating v...

Hong-Xing Li, Ding-Ming Li, Yi-Xin Li 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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