Skip to content

Category

natural language processing

9,568 papers

#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Language-model ratings of depression reflect the rater more than the patient

Depression has no diagnostic blood test. Language models promise tireless, consistent assessment, but can accurate raters disagree about individuals? We pre-registered 880 language-model raters, crossing 11 open models with prompting and scoring choices, and applied them to 189 interviews against the eight-item Patient...

Baihan Lin · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Rethinking Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation: From Alignment Coverage to Supervision Reliability

On-Policy Distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generations using teacher feedback. With different tokenizers, comparing teacher and student predictions requires alignment at both sequence and vocabulary levels. In this paper, we examine whether expanding this alignment coverage improves learning. Across three...

Bing-Xi Hou, Guochao Jiang, Guo-Feng Quan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Foresight-over-Graph: Reasoning Beyond Local Horizons for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in question answering, yet they still frequently suffer from hallucinations on knowledge-intensive tasks. Knowledge graphs (KGs) provide LLMs with structured, interpretable, and updatable factual grounding, making them a promising external knowledge sou...

Yang Hong, Ya-Jun Yang, Xin Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Memory Depth and Reconstructed Context Width: A Controlled Evaluation of Hierarchical Retrieval

Long-term conversational memory is becoming an integral component of modern LLM systems. Proposed architectures group records by topics and events, construct hierarchies and graphs, and connect facts through causal and temporal relations. We experimentally study the interaction between two memory parameters: structural...

Michael Andreev · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

STRUCTURALCOST: A controlled reading time dataset for modeling human sentence processing difficulty

We introduce STRUCTURALCOST, a self-paced reading dataset of 475 participants and 40,800 observations isolating the processing cost of long-distance subject-verb dependency resolution. We replicate a low-powered psycholinguistic finding at NLP scale, namely that human reading times at the main verb increase with depend...

Nina Nusbaumer, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Corentin Bel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Penalty-Framed No-Valid-Option MCQA: Analyzing LLM Abstention under Invalid Choices

Penalty-framed no-valid-option MCQA reveals an aspect of model reliability not captured by standard answer-selection accuracy, and correct-conditioned analysis is introduced, evaluating abstention only on instances that the model originally answered correctly.

Jinhyeok Kim, Hye-Young Jung · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference Open access Oct 2026

SAGE: Semantic Anchor-Guided Evolution for Grounded Medical QA Data Synthesis

Extensive experiments across multiple medical question-answering benchmarks demonstrate that models fine-tuned with SAGE-synthesized data consistently outperform those trained using self-derived or conventional document-based paradigms, highlighting tangible improvements in data efficiency and resource utilization for...

Chuan Li, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

DirectSpeech2LLM: A Simple End-to-End Framework to Mitigate Prompt Overfitting in Speech-LLMs

Speech-LLMs often exhibit prompt overfitting, where models solely trained on automatic speech recognition (ASR) instruction fail to generalize to new instructions such as speech translation and continue to behave primarily as ASR system. We propose DirectSpeech2LLM, a simple end-to-end framework that preserves the inst...

Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram, R. Zimmermann et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Are Language Models Script-Aware?

Language models frequently generate outputs in unintended languages or scripts, a phenomenon known as off-target generation. While existing research has focused on language selection, the dimension of script knowledge remains understudied: before any linguistic understanding can occur, users must recognize the graphic...

David Kletz, Sandra Mitrovic, Ljiljana Dolamic et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The Labeling Problem in Hallucination Detection Benchmarks: An Empirical Evaluation

In recent years, several methods for detecting when large language models (LLMs) hallucinate have been developed. These methods are often benchmarked with open-domain question answering (QA) datasets containing questions and corresponding short reference answers. First, an LLM is used to generate answers to questions w...

J. Valjakka, Juhani Kivimäki, Juha Mylläri et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Structured but Silent: Probing Capability Requirements in LLM Hidden States

Reliable tool use requires more than triggering a mechanism or matching a query to an API description. Before selecting a specific tool, an agent must first infer the capability requirements implied by the user query. In this paper, we investigate whether these query-side capability requirements are linearly decodable...

Kyo-Nam Choo, Mi-Ra Song, Yun-Ju Kang et al. · 0 citations

From tech blogs

See all →
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.

We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads. See our Cookie Policy.