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IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas

Scientific research often begins by synthesizing ideas from a set of related papers to identify gaps and formulate new directions. However, training language models to perform this form of literature-grounded ideation remains challenging, as existing approaches based on prompting or feedback lack structured supervision...

Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Jiashuo Sun et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The Missing Minimal Pair: Stereotype Evaluation in LLMs

A common approach to measuring bias in Large Language Models is to compare the log-likelihoods of two contrastive stereotype sentences. We argue that such single-pair comparisons are often unreliable: simply rewriting the same stereotype with an alternative attribute can yield logically inconsistent preferences. To add...

N. Stepanova, I. Titov, Emily Allaway et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Holdout Best-of-N: Unbiased Evaluation and Its Cost

Reusing the scores that select a Best-of-$N$ winner can overstate its expected reward. We study evaluation from a fixed matrix of $K$ independent scores per candidate for a policy that selects using $J$ fresh scores. A single estimator based only on this matrix is exactly unbiased for expected judge reward under every...

Shrey Shah, Yin-Heng Li · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Agreement Is Not Validity: Cross-Model LLM Consensus in Diagnosing Student Failure Modes in K-12 Math Tutoring Dialogue

In K-12 mathematics tutoring, student-tutor dialogue provides rich evidence of learners'problem-solving processes and sources of difficulty. Learning analytics research increasingly relies on large language models (LLMs) to extract such information from dialogue for a variety of downstream tasks, including knowledge tr...

Clayton Cohn, J. Fonteles, Kirk P. Vanacore et al. · 0 citations

Same-Number Citation Swaps: Stress-Testing Jev as a Financial Evidence Judge

This work evaluates what probabilistic evidence verification adds beyond number matching using Jev as a source-support verifier for GPT-4.1-mini calculation traces and identifies what a probabilistic financial verifier distinguishes when numerical matching is held fixed.

Chu-Hong Xu, Bo Su, Zi-Yao Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Evidence-Bound Reasoning: Neuro-Semantic Verification of Biomedical AI in Glioblastoma Radiogenomics

Background: Biomedical AI can generate plausible explanations without reliably verifying whether each statement is supported by patient-specific evidence. We developed a neuro-semantic verification framework that converts radiomic measurements into addressable evidence records and machine-checkable claims. Methods: UPe...

Mariya Miteva, M. Nisheva-Pavlova · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

InterCorrect: Intersection-Aware Correction of Demographic Model Merging for Fair ASR

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often show uneven performance across demographic groups, and errors can be especially difficult to address for speakers belonging to multiple demographic groups. This work studies demographic-aware model merging for fair Speech-LLM-based ASR. Starting from a SLAM-ASR-based mod...

Ashley E. Bravo-Bravo, Yuchen Zhang, Haralambos Mouratidis et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Generative AI translations in high-stakes emergency messaging

Emergency messaging such as extreme-weather reports and earthquake instructions can involve high stakes, to the extent that translation errors can lead to tragic consequences. The use of machine translation or generative artificial intelligence might therefore not be recommended. On the other hand, time savings in the...

Nune Ayvazan, Anthony Pym, Yu Hao · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Incidental information contaminates patient notes and disrupts clinical reasoning in large language models

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly relied upon to support ambient documentation and clinical reasoning. Here we examine the impact of a failure mode shared between these two applications by assessing their sensitivity to information incidental to the patient encounter. In 576 patient-clinician dialogues, we...

K. Vishwanath, Brandon Ye, A. Alyakin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

How High Is 0.6? Floors, Ceilings, and Headroom in Interpretability Probing

Probes are the workhorse of interpretability. If a model's hidden states predict a variable, the model is said to represent it. But a probe score has no fixed meaning. An $R^2$ of 0.6 may only reflect what the input already gives away, and the same score can mean different things on different data. We propose reading e...

Pranjal Garg · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Wiki-Talkie: Multilingual Benchmarking of Persona-Based Agents on Real-World Discussions

LLMs are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in social environments, making it critical to study their ability to faithfully simulate human interactions. Central to this is grounding agents in realistic user personas, yet existing datasets rely on fictional personas and are limited to a handful of languages, lac...

Dennis Fucci, Andrea Bacciu, Dong Liu 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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