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#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Temporal Evidence Forests for Long-Horizon Multi-Party Conversational Memory

Long-term memory has been widely adopted in LLM-based agents to support persistent interaction and personalized assistance. Long-term multi-party interactions, however, accumulate substantially more detailed information, with decisions repeatedly updated and states evolving across participants and interaction stages. T...

Junyou Guo, Chongyang Tao, Yan He et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Time Delay System for Sequence Modeling

Existing sequence models share a critical limitation: they lack an explicit, interpretable mechanism for content-aware temporal recall. LSTMs compress everything into a single hidden state, thereby losing information about specific past events. Transformers attend to all tokens indiscriminately at quadratic cost, while...

Youshan Zhang, Jialu Li · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Unreliable Narrator Framing as a Cost-effective Mechanism for Satire Explanation of Australian and American Satirical News

Satirical news is a unique form of misinformation: it is intended to be humorous by the original publication source but can be misinterpreted. Explanation of satirical news articles is challenging because recent and local context needs to be incorporated. This is a pilot study that explores explanation generation for s...

Kanay Gupta, David Y. Liu, Aditya Joshi · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Fear Is Not Always Fear: Variation in Emotion Label Equivalence Across Datasets

Emotion classifiers are routinely applied beyond their training data, on the assumption that same-named labels such as fear or surprise mean the same thing across resources. We test this assumption for five labels shared by GoEmotions, XED, and BRIGHTER, comparing models on identical inputs and under cross-corpus trans...

Emily Sofi Öhman, Anna Koufakou · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

When Charts Deceive Web Agents: A Paired Benchmark for Misleading Visualization-Grounded Tasks

Web agents increasingly browse, interpret, and act on web content on behalf of users. In many realistic workflows, however, the visual evidence they consume is not neutral: charts and dashboards can be misleading, shaping judgments without issuing any explicit malicious instruction. Unlike chart question answering, Web...

Yi-Sheng Li, Dong-Ming Han, Hong-Kun Pan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

People Making Conversation: Evaluating How Naturally Speech Models Converse

A conversational speech model has to decide, at every pause, whether to speak. Existing evaluations test boundary detection, policy adherence, or aggregate statistics, not this decision. We place real-time speech systems at 427 pauses and 482 turn ends from 176 unscripted conversations in Seamless Interaction, give eac...

Arya Bastani, Iman Modarressi · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

DistressBench: Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Crisis Support in Large Language Models

Language models have been adopted faster than evaluation practices that reliably assess their risks, and a growing share of use is affective rather than informational. Within that traffic users disclose suicide and self-harm (SSH) crises. Existing safety benchmarks score models primarily on refusal, but refusal is not...

Drew Rein, Patrick Oathout, Vishal Kumar et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MADS: Multi-Agent Dialog Simulation for Robust Conversational Agents

Task-oriented conversational agents remain fragile under realistic conditions, especially when users exhibit non-cooperative behavior. Existing function-calling benchmarks underrepresent adversarial conversation trajectories, thereby limiting the training resources available for developing robust agents. We present MAD...

Arkajyoti Chakraborty, Adam Zernik, Ishika Kulkarni et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

U4RASD at KnowledgeGraphEval-2026: Ontology-Constrained Encoder and LLM Systems for Arabic Relation Extraction

This paper details our submission to KnowledgeGraphEval 2026 Subtask 2 on directed Arabic relation extraction. We explored encoder-based and large language model approaches for predicting one of 40 relations or no_relation from an Arabic sentence and a subject-object pair. Our encoder systems use typed entity markers a...

Ahmad Abbas, Hussein Mazeh, Chadi Abou Chakra et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Activating the Annotator: Operationalising Lived Experience in Data Annotation

Perspectivist NLP has established that annotator positionality shapes labels for subjective tasks, but the field still lacks methods for operationalising it. Positionality is typically operationalised as a demographic form completed at recruitment: a static attribute recorded once and treated as a covariate, on the ass...

Sheza Munir, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

perturber: A Stateless Service for Semantics-Preserving Text Perturbations

Large language model (LLM) evaluations on clean benchmarks overstate model robustness: real inputs arrive perturbed, and these meaning-preserving variants routinely move model answers. Studying this systematically requires applying perturbations one at a time, reproducibly, and identically wherever they run, yet existi...

Khoi-Nguyen Tran · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

GeopoliticalQA: Benchmarking Retrieval and Generation over Intelligence Reports

Geopolitical and strategic intelligence reports constitute a rich source of expert knowledge and have increasing value in the current political climate, but their heterogeneity and analytical complexity pose challenges for retrieval-augmented question answering. We introduce a benchmark for grounded question answering...

Veronika Solopova, Ivan Havlytskyi, V. Skorik 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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