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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

HLA: Expressive Hybrid Linear Attention via Chunk-Wise Dynamic Mixing

Linear attention enables efficient long-context autoregressive decoding by compressing history into recurrent states, but this compression can make selective access to sparse and distant information difficult. Existing chunk-based extensions increase memory capacity, yet learned chunk-mixing coefficients may remain fix...

Zhuo-Kun Chen, Xi Lin, Xi-Yu Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Plan Canvas: Fixed Reasoning Regions for Continuous Language Flows

Continuous language flows generate text by denoising all positions of a target canvas together. The natural way to add reasoning to such a model is to write a trace ahead of the answer, but the trace length changes from question to question. The answer start is therefore unknown during denoising, and the model has to d...

Miaohe Niu, Pengxiang Li, Jingbo Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Adaptive Utilization of Low-Rank Adaptation via Conditioned Gating

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) achieves parameter-efficient fine-tuning by constraining model updates to a low-rank subspace and has been widely used in practice. However, LoRA typically employs a shared low-rank update across tokens, which limits its ability to fully exploit the adaptation subspace for tokens from differe...

Guang Yang, Chang-Hao Guan, Chao Huang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MedicalHarness: A Controlled Evaluation of LLMs and Agent Harnesses on Medical Tasks

LLM agents are increasingly built for medical work and scored on clinical benchmarks. Each such score, however, comes from a model running inside an agent harness, the system that controls the loop between the model and its environment. An agent's score is therefore a property of a model--harness pair. For medical agen...

Ziqing Wang, Lili Zhao, Kaize Ding · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Spend Bytes on Breadth: Precision-Count Trade-offs for Decode-Time KV Compression in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Reasoning models write most of their KV cache while decoding long chains of thought (CoT), so the cache has to be compressed online under a fixed memory budget. Decode-time methods mostly decide which tokens to evict. We ask how a fixed byte budget should be split between the number of cached tokens and their precision...

Runguo Li · 0 citations

Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Sinhala: A Critical Review of Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages remains a major challenge. Sinhala, the primary language of Sri Lanka with about 16 million speakers, illustrates the difficulty: agglutinative morphology, a 54-phoneme inventory, subject-object-verb (SOV) syntax and scarce annotated speech data limit both c...

Chanuka Dinuwan, Sanath Jayasena, Buddhika Karunarathne · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

Atomic Visual Entailment: Enhancing Zero-Shot Vision-Language Reasoning through Atomic Fact Decomposition and Learned Selection

Visual entailment (VE) asks whether an image supports, contradicts, or leaves undecided a textual hypothesis. Strong results come from fine-tuning large vision-language models on labelled data, while zero-shot and hybrid approaches remain far behind. A VE hypothesis often bundles several visual claims, yet existing zer...

Nallathambi Vethiappan, Derya Soydaner, G. Wijnholds · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

More Than Words: Compositional Tokenization for Efficient Language Models

Language models process and generate text sequentially in token units, and the tokenizer determines how much text each inference step covers. Under standard tokenization, a short English phrase such as"On the table."is usually produced as four separate predictions for the preposition (On), article (the), noun (table),...

Yuval Reif, Guy Kaplan, Roy Schwartz · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What Is a Repeated Token Worth? The Scaling Geometry of Multi-Epoch Pretraining

As pretraining increasingly repeats data, every run faces three questions: how many epochs to take, how that number should change with model size, and whether anything besides the epoch count matters. We answer them by pricing a repeated token against two references: one epoch on the same data, which gives its value, a...

Yekun Chai, Haoyi Xiong · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dataset Signatures in Human-LLM Interactions and User Modeling

Human--LLM interaction datasets shape our understanding of AI use and provide a foundation for downstream research, including training and evaluation of user models. In recent years, a growing number of datasets have sought to capture a representative picture of human--LLM interactions. But how different are the pictur...

Joseph Suh, Serina Chang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Writing as a Self-Organized Critical Process

We explain autocorrelation decay power laws omnipresent in texts by self-organized criticality. Specifically, we analyze the recently released KLiCKe keystroke dataset and show that not only the final texts' autocorrelations form a manifold that adheres to a power law with a finite-size scaling, but also the text revis...

Nikolay Mikhaylovskiy · 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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