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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are powered by foundation models. This paper presents a new set of foundation models, called Llama 3. It is a herd of language models that natively support multilinguality, coding, reasoning, and tool usage. Our largest model is a dense Transformer with 405B parameters and a...

Aaron Grattafiori (Jack), Abhimanyu Dubey (Jack), Abhinav Jauhri (Jack) et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Aligning Multimodal Patient Evidence with Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Clinical LLMs

Clinical questions often depend on linking a patient's multimodal evidence to external biomedical knowledge, yet existing predictive systems rarely represent such links explicitly, so they can neither be traced to their evidence sources nor removed to measure their contributions. We present MM-KG (Multimodal Knowledge...

Jia-Wen Du, Arshan Ali Khan, Chen-Hao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

How Sparse Probability Maps Shape Mixture-of-Experts Routing

Mixture-of-experts (MoE) routers typically apply softmax to the router scores and keep the top-K experts, making every token use exactly K experts. Sparsity-inducing probability maps such as sparsemax, alpha-entmax and normmax can adaptively assign exact zeros to selected experts, and therefore appear to offer token-de...

Tomás Brogueira, Marcos V. Treviso, Miguel Couceiro · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

What Matters for Latent Reasoning with Flow Matching

Latent reasoning lets a large language model (LLM) think in a continuous space and verbalize only the answer. We argue that an effective latent thought must meet five requirements: it should be useful, helping produce the correct answer rather than merely changing it, diverse, so that resampling yields different reason...

Yassine Ouali, Adrian Bulat, G. Tzimiropoulos · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HeuFouFT: Task-Guided Metaheuristic Coordinate Search for Fourier Fine-Tuning

We introduce Heuristic-Guided Fourier Fine-Tuning (HeuFouFT), a task-guided framework for selecting trainable frequency coordinates in Fourier fine-tuning. Existing uniform and Gaussian band-pass schemes allocate a limited spectral budget through fixed, task-agnostic rules. HeuFouFT instead searches for coordinates usi...

Ruiheng Wang, Yubo Hou, Yakun Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

StagQ: Constraint-Driven Multi-Precision Weight Quantization for LLMs

Serving a large language model (LLM) across a fleet of deployments requires several weight-precision operating points. Multi-precision formats serve them all from one stream whose prefixes are valid lower-precision codes, instead of storing multiple copies. We present StagQ, a multi-precision weight format whose main s...

Zhe Wei, Mengqi Guo, Yuan Yuan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AdaSpark: Adaptive DSpark with Online Learning for Tree Verification and N-gram Fill

Block drafters such as DSpark propose ranked candidates for several positions in one forward pass, and a tree verifier checks them in one pass of the target. The number of rows to verify trades the tokens a wider tree is expected to accept against the time a wider verify takes. Most schedulers that choose this number t...

Liquan Liu, Yifan Zhang, Bowei Xu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Voltic: Distinguishing Volatility from Stochasticity in Recurrent Memory

Recurrent sequence models must decide how strongly to overwrite their memory at each token. Read as Bayesian filtering, this write is the gain of a Kalman update, set by uncertainty from two sources that pull it in opposite directions: volatility, how quickly the underlying associations change, and stochasticity, how n...

Parsa Hejabi, Morteza Dehghani, Payam Piray · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

ColdDDI: Evaluating Knowledge Utilization in Cold-Start Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction

Cold-start drug-drug interaction (DDI) prediction tests whether models can identify clinically significant interactions for drugs without training-time interaction history. Existing benchmarks mostly report aggregate edge-prediction scores, leaving a key evaluation question unanswered: when models receive molecular, te...

Ji-Heng Liang, Chen Zhao, Di Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Universal Test-Time Training

Recent Test-Time Training (TTT) architectures compress context into fast weights that are updated online and queried as memory. Existing TTT designs keep this memory private to each layer: it recurs only over time, and depth merely indexes L separate memories. We argue that memory ownership need not be tied to depth, a...

Ze-Fan Cai, Qin-Zhe Hu, Ziqiao Ma et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Task Vector Descent: Learning from Non-IID Batches

A central challenge in continual learning is to acquire new knowledge without forgetting what the model has already learned. This challenge appears in language model training when training data comes from various domain-, user-, or task-specific distributions that are encountered unevenly over time. In such settings, s...

Anton Baumann, Jonas Hübotter, Zeynep Akata et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

When Does Longer Reasoning Help? Predicting Mathematical Reasoning Through Discovery and Execution

Test-time compute can improve mathematical reasoning, but can short-budget runs predict how mathematical reasoning scales with additional compute? We introduce a Discovery--Execution (DE) framework that predicts the aggregate held-out scaling curves through a convolution of strategy discovery and conditional execution....

Adib Hasan, Lay Jain, Thanic Nur Samin · 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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