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

Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models

Sound symbolism, the human tendency to map speech sounds to perceptual qualities such as roundness or sharpness, arises primarily from the acoustics of speech rather than spelling. Whether Speech Language Models (SLMs) share this tendency remains open, as prior evaluations rely on text or images rather than real speech...

Yun-Shao Tsai, Chun-Wei Chen, Chee-En Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SubtleMemory: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Relational Memory Discrimination in Long-Horizon AI Agents

Persistent AI assistants, such as OpenClaw, accumulate large collections of related memories over long-term interactions. As these memories grow, they may reinforce one another, diverge across contexts, or directly conflict, making correct assistance depend on memory relations rather than isolated recall. Existing long...

Wenxuan Wang, Haoyu Sun, Fukuan Hou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sabotage?

AI coding agents are increasingly embedded in real-world software development, collaborating with human developers while gaining broader access to codebases and tools. This creates a new attack surface: an agent can exploit human trust to sabotage development, for instance by inserting malicious code to accomplish a hi...

Jingheng Ye, Huiqi Zou, Simon Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Seeing Isn't Knowing: Do VLMs Know When Not to Answer Spatial Questions (and Why)?

Spatial reasoning benchmarks typically evaluate whether vision-language models can derive the correct answer from a visual observation. Yet in real 3D environments, the observation itself may be unreliable: occlusion can remove task-relevant evidence, while perspective can make visible geometry misleading. Reliable spa...

Yue Zhang, Zun Wang, Han Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Attention Closes: How LLMs Lose the Thread in Multi-Turn Interaction

Large language models can follow complex instructions in a single turn, yet over long multi-turn interactions they often lose the thread of instructions, persona, and rules. This degradation has been measured behaviorally but not mechanistically explained. We propose a channel-transition account: goal-defining tokens b...

Vardhan Dongre, Joseph Hsieh, Viet Dac Lai et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Cultural Value Attribution in Large Vision-Language Models

The rapid adoption of large vision-language models (LVLMs) in recent years has been accompanied by growing fairness concerns due to their propensity to reinforce harmful societal stereotypes. While significant attention has been paid to such fairness concerns in the context of social biases, relatively little prior wor...

Phillip Howard, Xin Su, Kathleen C. Fraser · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Quantifying Cross-Lingual Transfer in Paralinguistic Speech Tasks

Paralinguistic speech tasks are often considered relatively language-agnostic, as they rely on extralinguistic acoustic cues rather than lexical content. However, prior studies report performance degradation under cross-lingual conditions, indicating non-negligible language dependence. Still, these studies typically fo...

Pol Buitrago, Oriol Pareras, Federico Costa et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Jan 2026

AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking

AVMeme Exam, a human-curated benchmark of over one thousand iconic Internet sounds and videos spanning speech, songs, music, and sound effects, is introduced, showing current models perform poorly on textless music and sound effects, and struggle to think in context and in culture compared to surface content.

Xi-Lin Jiang, Qiao-Lin Wang, Junkai Wu et al. · 4 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Zero-Shot Lombard Speech Synthesis with Controllable Style Embeddings

The Lombard effect plays a key role in natural communication, particularly in noisy environments or when addressing hearing-impaired listeners. We present a controllable text-to-speech (TTS) system capable of synthesizing Lombard-like speech in a zero-shot manner without requiring Lombard-specific training data. Our ap...

Seymanur Akti, Alexander Waibel · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Enhancing High-order Interaction Awareness in LLM-based Recommender Model

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated prominent reasoning capabilities in recommendation tasks by transforming them into text-generation tasks. However, existing approaches either disregard or ineffectively model the user-item high-order interactions. To this end, this paper presents an enhanced LLM-based reco...

Xinfeng Wang, Jin Cui, Fumiyo Fukumoto et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evaluating Large Language Model Raters for German Open-Response Clinical Questions: A Physician-Annotated Benchmark Study of Agreement, Evaluator Bias, and Abstention

Background: Expert-annotated benchmarks for non-English open-response clinical questions are scarce. LLM-as-a-judge systems may scale evaluation but require validation. Objective: To introduce MedQADE, a standardized German open-response clinical benchmark with physician reference annotations, and evaluate LLM-as-a-j...

William Philipp, Finn Fassbender, Daniel Fister et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Emotion Recognition in Sign Language Conversation

Emotion Recognition in Conversation is a core component of affective computing, while current sign language emotion datasets primarily focus on isolated sentences and lack conversational context. Models trained exclusively on these isolated utterances demonstrate degraded performance in real world scenarios because the...

Yusong Wang, Keyu Mao, Takao Obi 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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