Tool-augmented LLM agents tend to call tools indiscriminately, even when the model can answer directly. Each unnecessary call wastes API fees and latency, yet no existing benchmark systematically studies when a tool call is actually needed. We propose When2Tool, a benchmark of 18 environments (15 single-hop, 3 multi-ho...
Chung-En Sun, Linbo Liu, Ge Yan et al.· 0 citations
This work proposes Distillation through Reasoning Path Compression (D-RPC), which constrains the teacher to follow a compact, dynamically maintained bank of reusable high-level reasoning paths, and achieves the highest average accuracy among the evaluated distillation methods.
State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have become a popular alternative to Transformer models, due to their reduced memory consumption and higher throughput at generation compared to their Attention-based counterparts. On the other hand, the community has built up a considerable body of knowledge on how to train Tran...
Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed as assistants in planning and decision making, yet most existing systems are implicitly optimized for a single-principal interaction paradigm, in which the model is designed to satisfy the objectives of one dominant user whose instructions are...
Shu Yang, Shenzhe Zhu, Hao Zhu et al.· 0 citations
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Simulating survey responses with LLMs offers a scalable alternative to costly human data collection, yet evaluation methods remain ad hoc and inconsistent. Current metrics, typically borrowed from adjacent domains, focus on accuracy or distributional similarity while overlooking ranking alignment-whether simulations pr...
Weronika {\L}ajewska, Paul Missault, George Davidson et al.· 0 citations
Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) rely on bidirectional attention, which prevents lossless KV caching and requires a full forward pass at every denoising step. Existing approximate KV caching methods reduce this cost by selectively updating cached states, but their decision overhead scales with context leng...
Minsoo Cheong, Donghyun Son, Woosang Lim et al.· 0 citations
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental-health support; yet prevailing evaluation methods--fluency metrics, preference tests, and generic dialogue benchmarks--fail to capture the clinically critical dimensions of psychotherapy. We introduce THERAPYGYM, a framework that evaluates and improves thera...
Fangrui Huang, Souhad Chbeir, Arpandeep Khatua et al.· 0 citations
LLM-as-judge evaluation has become standard practice for open-ended model assessment; however, judges exhibit systematic biases that cannot be averaged out by increasing the number of scenarios or generations. These biases are often similar in magnitude to the model differences that benchmarks are designed to detect, r...
Ziyi Zhu, Olivier Tieleman, Alexey Bukhtiyarov et al.· 0 citations
Psychological scale refinement traditionally relies on response-based methods such as factor analysis, item response theory, and network psychometrics to uncover latent constructs and optimize item composition. Although rigorous, these approaches require large samples and may be constrained by data availability and cro...
Bo Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Yueqin Hu et al.· 0 citations
Steering methods influence Large Language Model behavior by identifying semantic directions in hidden representations, but are typically realized through inference-time activation interventions that apply a fixed, global modification to the model's internal states. While effective, such interventions often induce unfav...
Chung-En Sun, Ge Yan, Zimo Wang et al.· 0 citations
Recent studies show that LLM hidden states encode reward-related information, such as answer correctness and model confidence. However, existing approaches typically fit black-box probes on the full hidden states, offering little insight into how this information is structured across neurons. In this paper, we show tha...
Guowei Xu, Mert Yuksekgonul, James Zou· 0 citations
We investigate how provision of in-context examples based on discourse similarity affects quality and hallucination in diagram code generation from educational materials. Using a sample of texts as sources for diagram generation, we test two methods using a conventional text-to-diagram task format, instruction-based ze...
Evanfiya Logacheva, Arto Hellas, Tsvetomila Mihaylova et al.· 0 citations
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.
A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
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Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.
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