Power sampling improves large language model (LLM) reasoning at test time by sampling from a sharpened version of the base model's distribution. Its sampler, PowerMH, is slow because its Metropolis--Hastings (MH) updates are sequential: each accept/reject decision sets the state from which the next proposal is generate...
Nan Jiang, Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Wei Deng· 0 citations
Terminal agents are moving beyond local operations toward completing real-world professional tasks. Short trajectories can demonstrate commands and tool calls, but they do not fully show how agents accumulate evidence through exploration, use it to inform judgments, continually adjust strategies based on feedback, and...
Reinforcement learning (RL) for search agents often suffers from evidence fabrication, a failure mode where agents bypass external information ($E_{ext}$) and fabricate an incorrect answer. We argue that this fabrication arises from an over-reliance on unreliable internal knowledge ($E_{int}$) as shortcuts due to the i...
Shengze Huang, Zihao Tang, Jinluan Yang et al.· 0 citations
The Bengali Contextual and Diverse Cyberbullying corpus is introduced, a publicly available contextual cyberbullying resource for Bengali political news discourse comprising 50,250 textual instances collected from 100 YouTube videos and their associated discussions.
Md. Nesarul Hoque, Rudra Pratap Deb Nath, Umme Salma et al.· 1 citation
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Broadcast archives offer scale and diversity for self-supervised learning (SSL) but contain substantial noisy, non-speech, and multilingual content. Prior work typically relies on voice activity detection or language identification (LID) to extract speech, ensuring presence rather than quality. Whether and how to filte...
Yaroslav Getman, Tamás Grósz, Tommi Lehtonen et al.· 0 citations
KV-cache reuse in large language model serving is commonly limited to exact prompt prefixes, preventing reuse when the same retrieved document appears after different system prompts, conversation histories, or dynamic metadata. We present KV-Repurpose, an open-source, vLLM-based system for developing and evaluating seg...
Taiga Ikeda, Daisuke Miyashita, Jun Deguchi· 1 citation
Radiology reports are essential for diagnostic reasoning and patient care, yet their manual preparation is time-consuming and cognitively demanding. Automatic radiology report generation (RRG) offers a scalable alternative, but existing models often produce lengthy, unstructured narratives that overlook diagnostic cues...
Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw, Shahid Shafi Dar, A. Sharma et al.· 0 citations
Recurrent-depth language models improve inference-time reasoning by repeatedly applying a shared network to refine internal representations, but the additional recurrent computation also increases inference cost. This overhead is particularly pronounced during long-context prefill, where the full input sequence is repe...
Self-evolving agents are increasingly used to improve language model systems without human intervention through either weight updates or harness improvements. Existing approaches typically pursue these directions separately: some methods update model weights using self-generated experience, while others rewrite the har...
Che-Jian Xu, Shu-Jian Zhang, Wen-Xuan Zhou et al.· 0 citations
Creativity benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) vary widely in task and metric design. This raises the question of whether they capture a common notion of creativity. We propose that this shared target can be formalized as task-specific performance in the long tail of a reference input-output distribution, which...
Yichen Wang, Tenghao Huang, Vishakh Padmakumar et al.· 0 citations
We investigate whether language models contain internal components that contribute to representing narrativity, the degree to which a text exhibits narrative properties. Across GPT-2-Small, Gemma-2-2B, and Llama-3.1-8B, we identify attention heads, MLP neurons, and sparse autoencoder features whose activations correlat...
David Liu, A. Joshi, Paul Dawson et al.· 0 citations
Search agents extend large reasoning models with multi-round access to external knowledge, yet most existing systems largely conflate retrieving evidence with consuming it. Retrieved documents are commonly incorporated according to fixed or rank-based policies, despite the fact that evidence utility is conditioned on t...
Jia-Jin Liu, Chen-Xi Xu, Dong-Zhe Fan 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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