Pre-trained transformer models are increasingly being used to study scientific and technological progress. Encoders tuned to paper or patent text outperform general-purpose models on downstream classification, regression, and proximity tasks within science and technology. However, the applicability of these models for...
Many key-value (KV) caches are compressed before anyone knows what will be asked of them: a document cached for retrieval, a prompt prefix shared across requests, the memory of a long conversation. The prevailing approach scores KV entries by rehearsal: the model rereads the context and keeps the entries it attends to,...
German is a morphologically rich language whose syllable structure is exceptionally well-predicted by the Knuth--Liang hyphenation algorithm. We ask whether phonologically informed tokenization can serve as a competitive target for end-to-end speech recognition. We compare three tokenizer families on the Omnilingual AS...
Christopher Witzl, Tobias Bocklet, Korbinian Riedhammer· Conference on Empirical Meth...· 0 citations
While domain-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) have encoded vast biomedical knowledge, their limited context windows often hinder a deep understanding of nuanced relationships within and across texts. To address this limitation, we introduce BioBigBird, a bidirectional language model pre-trained on extensive biomed...
Roshan Balaji, S. Pavan Kumar, Vasudev Gupta et al.· 0 citations
Phoneme-level models transcribe or generate speech as a sequence of phonemes, the smallest sound units that distinguish words. These models enable fine-grained pronunciation control and understanding, yet often fail on input that does not match any single training language, such as speech alternating between two langua...
Moran Yanuka, Raja Giryes, Morris Alper· 0 citations
Large audio-language models (LALMs) exploit multimodal evidence, yet task-irrelevant audio can alter text-reasoning decisions when listening is unnecessary. Aggregate Accuracy can hide this paired drift because audio-induced repairs and damages may cancel. Paired drift analysis and targeted interventions identify archi...
Lifelong editing of LLMs requires storing thousands of edits after acquisition. A widely used family of approaches attaches one LoRA adapter per edit, which preserves behavior but grows linearly in storage. To address this challenge, we propose LadderEdit, a method that compresses each LoRA adapter after it is acquired...
Xiao-Bing Yu, Pei-Jie Qiu, Jin Yang et al.· 0 citations
Knowledge tracing (KT) models need many logged learners, so a new course or platform starts without a usable model. In LLM-based KT the LLM generates the answer, which we call System-Two; it is either fine-tuned on the target data or reasons and votes over ten samples, which is slow and gives coarse probabilities. We a...
Time Series Language Models (TSLMs) offer a promising path toward time series understanding by reasoning over temporal signals and producing natural language answers and explanations. A common approach is Chain-of-Thought (CoT), which generates step-by-step rationales linking relevant signal patterns to final answers....
Yuliang Chen, Yu Yvonne Wu, Patrick Langer et al.· 0 citations
FedAlphaEdit is the first collaborative knowledge editing framework that aligns both local editing and the server-side merging rule under a single null-space principle for preserving existing knowledge, and builds on null-space-aligned merging.
Large language models (LLMs) are entering wildfire management, where overstated evaluations can cost property and lives. How do they perform on wildfire tasks, with and without grounding? Bare means a model receives the task input alone. Grounded means it also receives one task-specific addition: for smoke detection, a...
Yue Zhao, Xiyang Hu, Zuobin Xiong et al.· 0 citations
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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