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#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Language Model Augmented Decision Transformer for Multi-Task Offline Reinforcement Learning

Offline multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) aims to learn a unified policy from heterogeneous offline datasets that generalizes across tasks. However, existing offline MTRL methods often struggle with two fundamental issues: severe per-task data scarcity and limited cross-task generalization. In this paper, we pro...

Xinbo Zhao, Yuhang Liu, Xin Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

EpiLoRA: Fusing Many LoRA Adapters into Low-Precision GEMMs for Serving and RL

Low-rank adapters (LoRA) let one base model serve many fine-tuned variants: multi-tenant engines keep a single copy of the base and batch the requests of many tenants, each with its own adapter. As base models move to 8-bit (FP8) and 4-bit formats, their general matrix multiplications (GEMMs) become cheaper, but the ad...

Hieu Tran, Hong Yu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

Self-Privileged Fine-Tuning

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a key component of language model post-training, enabling effective task adaptation and serving as an important foundation for subsequent reinforcement learning. Recent methods seek to improve SFT by introducing token-level weights into the training objective, where these weights are typ...

Yang Hu, Xue-Yu Zhou, Yue Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Near-Zero Token Embeddings Silently Stall Training in Gated Sequence Models

Among 291 surveyed open-weight language model repositories (280 distinct embedding tables), 52.6% of untied gated and hybrid checkpoints (20/38) contain reachable input embeddings with norms below $10^{-6}$, compared with 0% of weight-tied models. Such near-zero rows can arise during pretraining when unseen rare or tem...

Xin Liu, Boyuan Sun, Yuxin Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Sketchpad: certified exact arithmetic with a small vision-language model

Language models are accurate on most long-arithmetic problems, but their accuracy is estimated on samples and carries no guarantee for an unseen input; tool use is exact but moves the computation outside the network. We show that exactness at all input lengths becomes a finite, checkable property of a network when each...

Mostafa 'Neo' Mohsenvand · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

LoopKV: Loop-Aware KV Cache Compression for Serving Looped Transformers

Looped transformers apply a shared block several times per token to improve accuracy without adding parameters. For models such as Ouro that keep a separate key-value (KV) cache per loop, cache memory limits the batch size that amortizes repeated weight reads. Uniform-bit quantization and fixed rules per loop do not al...

Tianle Zhou, Yang Zhang, Tianyu Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

When Strong Reasoners Join the Pool: Small Union Premiums and Costly Runaway Generations in LLM Routing

Routing benchmarks often judge a router against a hindsight oracle that counts a query as solved whenever any model's recorded answer is correct, but under stochastic decoding that oracle mixes two different objects: the clairvoyant ceiling of committing to one model per query and the premium of calling several models...

Teng-Ruei Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Mixture of Wide Experts: Sparse Routing for Interpretable Native Coordinates

Language models often spread a concept across many internal dimensions, making their features difficult to interpret. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) recover clearer features after training. We ask whether models can instead learn interpretable output coordinates directly. We introduce Mixture of Wide Experts (MoWE), a spar...

Tavish Mankash, Vardhaman Kalloli, Keshava Prasad et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SYNC: A Training-Free Inference Controller for Dynamic Layer Selection in Multi-Persona Alignment

Steering vectors align a model at inference time without touching its weights, but eliciting several personas at once is a different problem from eliciting one. Prior multi-persona steering approaches predetermine both how persona vectors are combined and the specific layers at which they are injected. Moreover, this s...

Yosef Nuraga Wicaksana, Muhammad Reza Qorib, Fadhil Muhammad et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Dense Language Generation Made Simple: Deterministic, Randomized, and Multi-Order Algorithms

Language generation in the limit is a theoretical framework for studying how a generator can learn to produce new valid strings from a stream of positive examples. In this model, an adversary chooses an unknown language from a countable family and enumerates its elements in an arbitrary order, while the generator must...

Ziyi Cai, Shuangping Li, Yiheng Shen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Grammar-Constrained Decoding Can Jailbreak LLMs into Generating Malicious Code

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for code generation, raising concerns that they may be misused to produce malicious code. Meanwhile, Grammar-Constrained Decoding (GCD) has been widely adopted to improve the reliability of LLM-generated code by enforcing syntactic validity. In this paper, we reveal a...

Yitong Zhang, Shiteng Lu, Jia Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Towards Error-Free EHRs: Reasoning-Intensive Consistency Verification Between Clinical Notes and Structured Tables in Electronic Health Records

Data consistency between unstructured clinical notes and structured tables in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is essential for patient safety and clinical decision-making. However, existing work on note-table consistency verification mainly relies on surface-level matching of numeric values or simple events. Such appr...

Yeonsu Kwon, Jiho Kim, Junseong Choi 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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