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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Phoneme-Guided Initialization for LLM-based Speech Recognition

Speech large language models (speech LLMs) perform well on automatic speech recognition (ASR) when sufficient paired speech-text data is available, but their performance degrades in low-resource settings. A cascaded pipeline that performs speech-to-phoneme (S2P) conversion followed by phoneme-to-grapheme (P2G) conversi...

Ryotaro Magoshi, Shinsuke Sakai, Tatsuya Kawahara · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Is Word Error Rate Enough? Rethinking Privacy Evaluation in Speech with Entity-Aware Metrics

As the use of smart devices continues to increase, their potential to capture sensitive speech content raises growing privacy concerns. It is therefore critical to develop techniques that prevent information leakage while preserving the utility of the audio, and evaluation metrics that accurately quantify the level of...

A. Rajasekhar, Jule Pohlhausen, Nayana Jacob Alappattu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Your Prompt Should Do More: Effects of Retrieval Instructions in Embedding Models

Prompted embedding models have recently received increasing attention, particularly for retrieval, where detailed retrieval instructions are provided as part of the retrieval prompt. Several new datasets and studies have examined this setting, showing that the current embedding models often struggle to follow such inst...

Amanda Myntti, Jenna Kanerva, Veronika Laippala et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

CoTrace: Data Recipes for Training Terminal Agents with Harness-Model Co-Evolution

Terminal-agent capability depends jointly on model weights and the runtime harness that formats prompts, binds tools, and handles error recovery. Existing harness-model co-evolution approaches improve both components, yet often treat trajectories produced during harness search as an undifferentiated replay buffer. This...

Ji-Xuan Chen, Jia-Xin Zhang, Qinyuan Ye et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Open access Oct 2026

Document-Level Text Simplification in Estonian Using Large Language Models

Document-level text simplification involves transformations that go beyond sentence-internal edits, addressing discourse coherence, anaphora resolution, and cross-paragraph consistency. Despite advances in sentence-level simplification for high-resource languages, document-level simplification in morphologically rich,...

Meeri-Ly Muru, Eduard Barbu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Learning to Act with Task Progress: Distilling Small Agents from Compact Teacher Supervision

Learning from large-model demonstrations offers a way to train small agents that can complete recurring tasks without calling a large model at every step. A central design choice is what to retain from teacher trajectories that contain reasoning, actions, and information about task progress. We introduce Task-Progress...

Wen-Xi Gan · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Nobody Truly Agrees on Sentiment: Humans, Bespoke Tools, and LLMs Struggle with Social Media Texts

Social media is a rich source of real-time public sentiment, but widely used sentiment analysis tools are often applied without understanding their limitations. In this study, we evaluate the inter-rater reliability of three bespoke sentiment analysis tools (TextBlob, VADER, and Twitter-roBERTa-base) and three large la...

Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Sivakanesan Dhanushkanda, Hao Shuai et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

HySPE: Positional Encoding via Symplectic Dual Shears

These controlled experiments establish HySPE's extrapolation robustness and numerical stability, evaluating its scaling behavior on large-scale foundation models remains an important direction for future investigation.

Zhong-Ping Ji · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

InterView-C: A Synchronized Multimodal Corpus of VR Avatar-Mediated Survey Interviews

We present InterView-C, a German multimodal corpus of 27 survey interviews conducted entirely in virtual reality, with both interlocutors represented by avatars. The corpus aligns spoken interaction with synchronized behavioral data, including gaze, head and body movement, facial behavior, hand and finger tracking. Its...

Patrick Schrottenbacher, Leon Hammerla, Lydia Kleine et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Mechanics of Long-Context Hybrid Models Part 1.1: From Hybrid Attention to Hybrid Position

This series begins with hybrids of full attention and either sliding-window attention (SWA) or gated variants of linear attention (LA), represented by GLA and GDN, and finds that SWA hybrids suffer from a Short-Context Learning Trap, Short-Window Weariness, and Long-Window Laziness, and require extended windows to enha...

Xiaoran Liu, Zi-Wei He, Xi-Peng Qiu · 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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