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

SearchJev: A Fast and Calibrated System-1 Model for Search Agents

Search agents repeatedly make short decisions about relevance, evidence sufficiency, and search actions. Using generative language models for these decisions introduces latency and unreliable confidence. We present SearchJev, a fast and calibrated System-1 model that separates search decisions from System-2 reasoning a...

Congfeng Cao, Lipeng Zuo, Konstantinos Papakostas et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

StegoMemory: Agentic Memory Acts as Covert Steganographic Channel

Is agentic memory robust against stealthy steganographic attacks? We carry out a large-scale red-teaming exercise to test whether agents can encode attacker-controlled strings in one session and recover them in another without triggering safety oversight. Following SHADE-Arena-style tasks, we embed malicious side tasks...

Snehasis Mukhopadhyay, Arun Nair · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The Same Zero: Why Identical ASR Can Imply Different Guarantees in LLM-Agent Security

LLM-agent security has produced a dense landscape of defenses - prompt hardening, content filters, permission gates, sandboxes - yet no framework tells a deployer what a defense actually guarantees, or where that guarantee comes from. We apply Verification Autonomy Levels (VAL) - L0: LLM self-declaration; L1: determini...

Ya-Jie Yin · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Large Language Models and Augmented Democracy

Artificial intelligence enables computational agents to represent political preferences and take part in collective decision-making. In this thesis, I investigate the opportunities and challenges of digital twins (DTs) based on Large Language Models (LLMs) as intermediaries in augmented democracy, focusing on individua...

Jairo Gudi\~no-Rosero · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Factorized Delayed Streams Modeling for LLM-based Streaming ASR

Factorized DSM is proposed, which separates the waiting probability for ASR-specific tokens from the text prediction space and allows the large-vocabulary softmax to be skipped on waiting steps and greatly reduces GPU memory use while maintaining similar training throughput.

Tatsunari Takagi, Kai Washizaki, Atsushi Kojima et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Multimodal Dual-Encoder Retrieval for Automated ICD Coding

Accurate International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding is crucial for large-scale clinical research, documentation, and billing. There are three primary problems with current ICD prediction methods: (1) They are unable to comprehend multimodal patient data because they rely on either structured EHR data or unst...

Abhinav Bohra, Anuj Bohra · 0 citations

DimSteer: Steering LLM Authoring with Automatically Discovered Stylistic Controls

Large language model writing interfaces often make users steer outputs by repeatedly articulating desired changes in natural language. Yet writers may recognize useful stylistic directions only after seeing alternatives, making revision recall-heavy. We present DimSteer, an authoring interface that samples prompt-local...

Ajit Mallavarapu, Zi-Wei Gu · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PlotGround: Grounding Plot Digitization in Real Scientific Figures and Their Source Data

Scientific figures often encode quantitative results that are not readily available in machine-readable form, making accurate plot digitization important for verifying and reusing published findings. Yet it remains unclear how accurately current models recover plotted values from real scientific figures, as existing be...

Yaohui Zhang, Binxu Li, Haoyi Duan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

T-Search: An Open Agentic Retriever and Playground for Hard Multi-Step Search

We present T-Search, an open-weight agentic retriever for hard multi-step search. Given a question and a search tool over a fixed corpus, it runs a bounded multi-round search and returns a ranked list of evidence chunks with short justifications, leaving answer generation to a downstream model, so backend and generator...

Olga Tsymboi, Ramil Latypov, Aleksandr Medvedev et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Improving Diversity in LLM Short Story Generation

DivLM, an LLM post-training framework consisting of two phases, is introduced, which applies reinforcement learning with a custom, composite reward function that jointly maximizes diversity across the targeted narrative dimensions while maintaining response quality.

Zahra Solati Dehkordi, Vasileios Lampos · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Domain adaptation of Russian ModernBERT for long legal documents

We investigate whether continued pretraining on Russian legislative documents improves a Russian ModernBERT encoder on legal text. The adapted model, RuModernBERT-ruLaw, was trained on a corpus reported to contain 304,382 legislative documents and 194,425,905 corpus tokens. Corpus token counts are distinguished from po...

I. Litvak, D. Gvozdetsky, F. Lashkin et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SAFE-MR: Evidence Sufficiency Learning for Selective Multimodal Rumor Detection

Multimodal rumor detectors increasingly rely on retrieved evidence, yet relevant evidence is not necessarily sufficient for verification. Missing provenance, duplicated reports, and unresolved contradictions can produce confident predictions without adequate support. We introduce SAFE-MR, a framework that separates cla...

Shiwen Ni · 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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