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

Spoiler Alert: Narrative Forecasting as a Metric for Tension in LLM Storytelling

LLMs have so far failed both to generate consistently compelling stories and to recognize this failure--on the leading creative-writing benchmark (EQ-Bench), LLM judges rank zero-shot AI stories above New Yorker short stories, a gold standard for literary fiction. We argue that existing rubrics overlook a key dimension...

Peiqi Sui, Yutong Zhu, Tianyi Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Explicit Edges: Robust Reasoning over Noisy and Sparse Knowledge Graphs

GraphRAG is increasingly adopted for converting unstructured corpora into graph structures to enable multi-hop reasoning. However, standard graph algorithms rely heavily on static connectivity and explicit edges, often failing in real-world scenarios where Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are noisy, sparse, or incomplete. To add...

Hang Gao, Dimitris N. Metaxas · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EvoScientist: Towards Multi-Agent Evolving AI Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Discovery

The increasing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled AI scientists to perform complex end-to-end scientific discovery tasks requiring coordination of specialized roles, including idea generation and experimental execution. However, most state-of-the-art AI scientist systems rely on static, hand-designed...

Yougang Lyu, Xi Zhang, Yuyue Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLMs Exhibit Significantly Lower Uncertainty in Creative Writing Than Professional Writers

We argue that uncertainty is a key and understudied limitation of LLMs' performance in creative writing, which is often characterized as trite and clich\'e-ridden. Literary theory identifies uncertainty as a necessary condition for creative expression, while current alignment strategies steer models away from uncertain...

Peiqi Sui · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Response-Based Knowledge Distillation for Multilingual Jailbreak Prevention Unwittingly Compromises Safety

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed worldwide, yet their safety alignment remains predominantly English-centric. This allows for vulnerabilities in non-English contexts, especially with low-resource languages. We introduce a novel application of knowledge distillation (KD) in the context of multiling...

Max Zhang, Derek Liu, Kai Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive Information Control for Search-Augmented LLM Reasoning

Search-augmented reasoning agents interleave multi-step reasoning with external retrieval, but uncontrolled retrieval can introduce redundant evidence, saturate the context, and destabilize reinforcement learning (RL). Existing outcome-based RL methods provide only sparse terminal rewards, offering limited guidance for...

Siheng Xiong, Oguzhan Gungordu, James C. Kerce et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Distilling Token-Trained Models into Byte-Level Models

Byte Language Models (BLMs) have emerged as a promising direction for scaling language models beyond tokenization. However, existing BLMs typically require training from scratch on trillions of bytes, making them prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we propose an efficient distillation recipe that converts existing...

Zishuo Bao, Jiaqi Leng, Junxiong Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mitigating Social Desirability Bias in Random Silicon Sampling

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate population responses, a method known as ``Silicon Sampling''. However, responses to socially sensitive questions frequently exhibit Social Desirability Bias (SDB), diverging from real human data toward socially acceptable answers. Existing studies on social...

Sashank Chapala, Maksym Mironov, Songgaojun Deng · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Lingual Summarization as a Black-Box Watermark Removal Attack

Watermarking has been proposed as a lightweight mechanism to identify AI-generated text, with schemes typically relying on perturbations to token distributions. While prior work shows that paraphrasing can weaken such signals, these attacks remain partially detectable or degrade text quality. We demonstrate that cross-...

Gokul Ganesan · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparse Autoencoders Can Capture Language-Specific Concepts Across Diverse Languages

Understanding the multilingual mechanisms of large language models (LLMs) provides insight into how they process different languages, yet this remains challenging. Existing studies often focus on individual neurons, but their polysemantic nature makes it difficult to isolate language-specific units from cross-lingual r...

Lyzander Marciano Andrylie, Inaya Rahmanisa, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Automating MD simulations for Proteins using Large language Models: NAMD-Agent

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are essential for understanding protein structure, dynamics, and function, but preparing, running, and analyzing simulations remains time-consuming and error-prone. We present an automated pipeline that combines large language model (LLM) agents with Python scripting and HTMD MCP too...

Omid Barati Farimani, Achuth Chandrasekhar, Amir Barati Farimani · 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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