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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Not Every Change Is Necessary: Recoverable Drift in Large Language Model Unlearning

Machine unlearning in large language models aims to remove unwanted knowledge while preserving the model's remaining capabilities. Although existing methods use retention objectives or restrict where edits occur, achieving the desired forgetting level can still leave collateral changes that impair non-target behavior....

Xun-Lei Chen, Qing Gong, Jing-Kun Xue et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Can Decision Models Understand Stance? Evaluating Jev Against General-Purpose LLMs

Evaluated Jev on two stance detection datasets, VAST and ZS-CSD, shows competitive performance on VAST, matching GPT-5.6 and outperforming the other general-purpose LLMs, but falls behind stronger LLMs on ZS-CSD, particularly in distinguishing favor from against.

Xing Li, Jin-Zhong Ning, Yi-Jia Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Detecting Spin in Clinical Trials with Large Language Models

Spin in clinical trials includes reporting practices that distort the presentation of results. This is particularly critical in medicine, where spin is present in more than 50% of randomized controlled trials that fail to reach statistical significance. The comparison of primary and reported outcomes is crucial for det...

Tjaša Ajdovec, Marko Robnik-Šikonja, Simon Suster · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Easy to anticipate, hard to compute: boundary dependence finds the computed outputs that entropy patching misses

Byte-level language models such as the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT) group bytes into patches and run their large global model once per patch. BLT starts a patch where a small model's next-byte entropy is high, so global compute goes where the next byte is hard to predict. We show that this rule has a systematic blind...

Nicolás Vera Zúñiga · 2 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Sparse Representations to Behavioral Insights for Multimodal Depression Assessment

Multimodal depression assessment offers a promising approach to analyzing behavioral patterns associated with depression. However, existing methods often rely on dense and opaque multimodal representations, making it difficult to interpret the behavioral patterns underlying their predictions. In this work, we introduce...

Guimin Hu, Zihao Song, Jiachen Luo et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DPPM: Dual-Path Parametric Memory for Personalized Language Models

Long-term personalization requires language models to use interaction history to track users' preferences across sessions. Parametric memory encodes this interaction history into model parameters or adapters, reducing the need to include it in the inference context. However, independent context compilation leaves cross...

Yuhao Chen, Shuochen Liu, Jiayao Shi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly ship with explicit"thinking modes", yet their counterpart,"no-thinking", has received far less attention. We study LLMs'no-thinking behavior along two axes. a. How to measure no-thinking? Prior work typically defines no-thinking through proxies such as a disabled thinking mode...

Dian-Qiao Lei, K. Lin, Pan Lu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Structured Sentiment Analysis Using Sequence Labeling as Dependency Graph Parsing

This study addresses the problem of structured sentiment analysis, whose goal is to obtain a fine-grained sentiment graph where the nodes represent spans of sentiment holders, targets, and expressions, while the arcs define the relationships among them. Our proposed approach casts the task as dependency graph parsing,...

Muhammad Imran, Ana Ezquerro, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

TRACE: Diagnosing Verifier Brittleness in Agentic Evaluation

Verifier scores now serve as both benchmark metrics and training rewards for large language model (LLM) agents, and a change in score is routinely read as a change in capability. It may instead reflect a change in the evaluation. We introduce TRACE, a protocol that turns a score change from a verdict into a testable di...

Radhika Gaonkar · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

UXBench Pro: Benchmarking Personalized User Experience in Multi-Turn Dialogue Interactions

Evaluating user experience (UX) with automated computational methods has gained increasing attention, supported by empirical evidence from UXBench. However, binary preference prediction provides limited insight, while relying on a single user-agnostic reward model overlooks the inherent heterogeneity of users, whose ex...

Meng-Ze Hong, Zeyang Lei, Wen-Bo Shang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probing for Long-Horizon Deductive Reasoning Capabilities in Language Models with Prolog

Current frontier LLMs can theoretically process long contexts with 1M tokens or more. But to what extent can they go beyond simple retrieval and perform deeper reasoning over such long contexts? We empirically investigate long-horizon reasoning capabilities of LLMs, focusing on deductive logic expressed in Prolog. We c...

Hadeel Al-Negheimish, Jasna Ilieva, Yoon Kim · 0 citations

Measuring Cultural Alignment Beyond the Average: A Framework for Evaluating Maternal-Health LLM Interactions in Indian Contexts

Existing evaluation methods for healthcare LLMs primarily assess factual correctness,safety, and fluency, while providing limited insight into whether generated interactions reflect culturally situated healthcare reasoning. This limitation is particularly important in maternal health, where care decisions are shaped by...

Umaira Izhar, Gunjan Arora, Pushpendra Singh · 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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