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

Incremental Open-Ended Deep Research with Structured Harness

Existing Open-Ended Deep Research (OEDR) systems primarily generate reports from scratch, making them inefficient for scenarios where research reports need to be continuously maintained as new information emerges. We introduce \textbf{Incremental Open-Ended Deep Research (Incremental-OEDR)}, a research setting that tre...

Meilin Chen, Hongyuan Bao · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prosody-to-Text: Predicting text from low-pass filtered speech

While predicting prosody from text is an established task in the field, the opposite direction, predicting text that fits a given prosodic pattern, remains largely overlooked. We find this unfortunate, because this opposite direction could lead to some very interesting use cases. Therefore, in this paper, we make the f...

David Porte\v{s}, Ale\v{s} Hor\'ak · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning the Loop, Not Just the Page: Execution-Grounded Loop Learning for Web Generation

Functional Web generation is increasingly optimized with executable rewards, yet existing methods largely focus on the quality of the final page and leave the process of diagnosing and repairing imperfect implementations underexplored. We identify a central challenge in this setting: the Generator and Refiner produce e...

Yuxin Meng, Ruixu Zhang, Junjie Wang 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.

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