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Imputation of Public Opinion Data with Large Language Models

This work presents the first evaluation of LLM imputation against proper multiple-imputation metrics and statistical baselines on more than 5 million imputed responses from four public opinion surveys under various missingness mechanisms and highlights the importance of fit-for-purpose evaluation for LLM imputation.

Tobias Holtdirk, Georg Ahnert, J. Sakshaug et al. · 2 citations

Minimizing Modality Gap from the Input Side: Your Speech LLM Can Be a Prosody-Aware Text LLM

Experiments show that TextPro-SLM achieves the lowest modality gap among leading SLMs at both 3B and 7B scales, while also delivering strong overall performance on paralinguistic understanding tasks, suggesting that reducing the modality gap from the input side is both effective and data-efficient.

Wen-Qian Cui, Xiao-Hui Li, Da-Xin Tan et al. · 3 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

AgentCollab: A Self-Evaluation-Driven Collaboration Paradigm for Efficient LLM Agents

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) perform complex tasks through long-horizon reasoning and tool interaction, where a fundamental trade-off arises between execution efficiency and reasoning robustness. Models at different capability-cost levels offer complementary advantages: lower-cost models en...

Wenbo Gao, Renxi Liu, Xian Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Exploring the potential and limitations of Model Merging for Multi-Domain Adaptation in ASR

Model merging is a scalable alternative to multi-task training that combines the capabilities of multiple specialised models into a single model. This is particularly attractive for large speech foundation models, which are typically adapted through domain-specific fine-tuning, resulting in multiple customised checkpoi...

Carlos Carvalho, Francisco Teixeira, Thomas Rolland et al. · 0 citations

Service, Solidarity, and Self-Help: A Comparative Topic Modeling Analysis of Community Unionism in the Boot and Shoe Union and Unite Community

This paper presents a comparative analysis of community unionism (CU) in two distinct historical and organizational contexts: the National Boot and Shoe Union (B\&S) in the 1920s and Unite Community in the 2010s--2020s. Using BERTopic for thematic modeling and cTF-IDF weighting, alongside word frequency analysis, the s...

Thomas Compton · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Beyond the Black Box: Integrating Lexical and Semantic Methods in Quantitative Discourse Analysis with BERTopic

Quantitative Discourse Analysis has seen growing adoption with the rise of Large Language Models and computational tools. However, reliance on black box software such as MAXQDA and NVivo risks undermining methodological transparency and alignment with research goals. This paper presents a hybrid, transparent framework...

Thomas Compton · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

MedResearcher-R1: Expert-Level Medical Deep Researcher via A Knowledge-Informed Trajectory Synthesis Framework

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in deep research tasks, yet their application to the medical domain remains challenging. The leading proprietary systems achieve only modest results on complex medical benchmarks. This exposes two key bottlenecks: (i) limited cli...

Ailing Yu, HaoYang Hong, Lan Yao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Completeness and Cost of Retrieval Structures for Multi-Tool Requests in LLM Agents

An agent that must call several tools to fulfill a request fails when the tool retriever omits any one of them, yet tool retrievers are mostly built and evaluated on queries requiring a single tool. We compare representatives of six retrieval structures (flat lexical and dense retrieval, LLM query decomposition, LLM-na...

Shuyang Zhang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SCRBench: Beyond Equivalence Checking for Semantic Change Reasoning in Code

Understanding how code changes affect program semantics is a core aspect of code reasoning in language models. It is commonly evaluated by asking whether two programs are semantically equivalent, but a yes/no answer does not reveal whether a model knows which code change caused a semantic difference, or which sequence...

Omid Saghatchian, Ali Mahzoun, Khashayar Etemadi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Hybrid Computer Use: A Unified Programmatic, Semantic, and Visual Interface for General Agents

Computer-use agents increasingly tackle tasks ranging from everyday desktop activities to long-horizon professional workflows. Yet interfaces centered on screenshots and mouse-and-keyboard actions can impose a human-interaction prior, requiring repeated screen interpretation while leaving the computer's semantic and pr...

Hao-Qing Wang, Xiao-Yi Zhang, Si-Cheng Fan et al. · 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.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2026

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 15, 2026

Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar

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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