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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Representation-Space MMD for Diffusion Language Models

We introduce a post-training method for diffusion language models (DLMs) that minimizes Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) between generated and reference distributions in the feature space of a frozen pretrained DLM. To estimate MMD, we retain contextual features at individual token positions, obtaining multiple observati...

Ilya Drobyshevskiy, I. Sudakov, Maksim Semenov et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

SOL: Measuring Gaps between Text Distributions by Double Sliced Wasserstein Metrics

Evaluating text generation requires measuring how well the generated distribution matches the data distribution. For autoregressive models, this is done by the perplexity. Diffusion and flow-based language models can only provide a likelihood bound, whose tightness differs between model families. Sample-based substitut...

Gregor Kornhardt, Moritz Piening, J. Chemseddine et al. · 0 citations

Ontology Concept Overlap as a Training Signal: Knowledge-Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Clinical Question Answering

Reinforcement learning post-training for language models relies on two reward designs: human preferences (RLHF, DPO) and binary verifiers (RLVR). Clinical question answering fits neither. Near-correct answers differ by a single substituted entity, and no executable check decides clinical correctness. We instantiate a s...

Aditya Tanna, Abhishek Jindal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification

Industrial content moderation must process massive message streams under tight latency constraints, yet most abusive language (AL) detection systems rely on sentence-level classification (ALC), which neither localizes abusive spans nor identifies who is targeted. We define Abusive Language Identification (ALI) as a seq...

Nicolas Zampieri, Ignacio Lopez, Manon Girard et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

What Does It Cost to Simulate a Quantum Sentence Classifier? An Energy and Compute Perspective on Near-Term QNLP

Near-term quantum natural language processing (QNLP) experiments often run on classical simulators, so simulator cost is part of the field's practical compute burden, yet accuracy tables do not show it. We measure that cost for a variational quantum classifier (VQC) on binary SST-2 sentiment classification, using Penny...

Kishlay Kashyap, Sandipan Ganguly · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning to Learn a Language

We present the Prior-Fitted Language Model (PFLM), a 300M-parameter byte-level transformer pretrained only on samples from a synthetic non-linguistic prior. Given a prefix of real text, it learns to predict the language in context with frozen weights, having never seen a word of any real language. Every training sequen...

Lennart Carstens-Behrens, Holger Fröhlich · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Lend Me Your Eyes: Instruction-Aware Text Embeddings via Attention Relay

Text embedding models trained with contrastive learning learn to follow task instructions from instruction-paired data, while instruction-tuned LLMs already know how to follow them. We show that this instruction-following ability can carry over from an LLM to a Transformer-based embedder without any training. We propos...

Yi-Pei Luo, Vaggos Chatziafratis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

SALUS: Automated Auditing of NL-to-SQL Benchmarks through Weak Supervision of Multi-Agent Output

Natural language to SQL (NL-to-SQL) benchmarks are foundational to progress in data analysis research, yet recent work has shown that widely-used benchmarks contain significant annotation errors. These errors silently corrupt evaluation metrics, penalize correct model output, and distort the field's understanding of st...

Shi-Yuan Zhou, Ashwin Gerard Colaco, Sainyam Galhotra et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Unmentioned Checklist Findings Change How Reinforcement Learning Appears to Improve Chest Radiograph Report Checking

Automated checks of radiology reports may rely on AI-generated checklists that leave findings unmentioned. We used reinforcement learning to train a vision-language model to fill in a 12-finding checklist from a chest radiograph without seeing the sentence under test; a separate checking model judged the sentence from...

Ali Vosoughi, Akhil Kasturi, Chenliang Xu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Mind the Gaps: From Failure Attribution to Closed-Form Repair of Code Language Models

Code language models must be maintained like the software around them: when a library evolves, a model keeps writing the interface that it saw during training. Repairing the model itself lets one correction reach all downstream uses. Existing repair methods attribute a failure to neurons, select the highest-ranked ones...

Jian Gu, Hong-Yu Zhang, Chun-Yang Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

FORGE: Verification-Gated Behavioral Repair for Generative Language Models

Generative large language models (LLMs) inherit undesirable behaviors from pre-training, including demographic bias and toxic generation, that often emerge only after deployment and affect a small subset of inputs. A repair should eliminate the identified defect, preserve the model's overall functionality and, ideally,...

Hsin-Ling Hsu, Min-Yue Chen, Nai-Chia Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

vMF Sentence LDA: A Spherical Topic Model over Sentence Embeddings

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and models derived from it remain widely used topic models. LDA observes each document as a bag-of-words and models each topic by a categorical distribution over the vocabulary, so that it uses neither the internal structure of the document nor the similarity in meaning between words....

Ryotaro Kobayashi, Yuri Murayama, Kiyoshi Izumi · 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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