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#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Last But Not Least: Boundary Attention CalibratiON for Multimodal KV Cache Compression

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong vision-language reasoning but incur large KV caches and high decoding latency with long visual contexts. Existing compression methods rely on observation window attention for stable token importance estimation, yet this aggregation can dilute sparse critical evide...

Tianhao Chen, Yuheng Wu, Kelu Yao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLM Anonymization Against Agentic Re-Identification

Agentic LLMs with web search change the threat model for text anonymization: weak contextual cues can become cross-referenceable evidence for re-identification, yet those same details also carry downstream analytic value of the text. Existing defenses either remove explicit identifiers, perturb text for formal privacy,...

Ziwen Li, Jianing Wen, Tianshi Li · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

You Only Align Once: Propagating Cooperative Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems through Seed Agents

Ensuring aligned agent behaviors in distributed open multi-agent systems remains challenging, especially as populations grow and unaligned agents may exist. We show that a single aligned agent can propagate cooperative behaviors to unmodified agents purely through natural-language interaction, a phenomenon we term Alig...

Nicole Summer Hsing, Asuka Yuxi Zheng, Yi Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2025

WAON: A Large-Scale Japanese Image-Text Dataset for Cultural Adaptation in Contrastive Vision-Language Models

WAON, the largest publicly available native Japanese image-text dataset constructed from native Japanese web content in Common Crawl, is presented and it is observed that models fine-tuned on WAON consistently achieve stronger performance on Japanese cultural benchmarks than those fine-tuned on English-to-Japanese tran...

Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Understanding Why Language Models Hallucinate: Testing Reasoning Against Priors

Large language models often produce hallucinated answers that violate prompt-level constraints. A key diagnostic question is whether these failures reflect missing knowledge, or whether the model has the relevant information but follows the wrong inference path. We study this phenomenon as inference misalignment: a mis...

Yangfan Hu, Xuhan Tong, Haoyue Bai et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Hint-Guided Diversified Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased impressive reasoning capabilities, with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) being a promising enhancement strategy. However, existing reward mechanisms are constrained to the outcome-level correctness and lack explicit signals to guide...

Zhiyu Cao, Kaixin Wu, Mingjie Zhong et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Encoded but Not Routed: Explaining the Table-Chart Gap in Scientific Claim Verification

Multimodal LLMs are increasingly used to assist scientific peer review, where a core requirement is verifying whether claims in a paper are supported by its evidence. Prior work has shown that models perform substantially better at this task when the evidence is a table than when it is a chart of the same underlying da...

Sunisth Kumar, Xanh Ho, Tim Schopf et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Specializing Without Forgetting: Analyzing Knowledge Preservation in Multilingual Model Adaptation

While continual pretraining (CPT) is a practical way to extend large language models to new languages, na\"ive finetuning often erodes existing capabilities through catastrophic forgetting. We investigate which model layers drive this trade-off, and whether interventions at these layers can guide knowledge preservation...

Sanchit Ahuja, Terra Blevins · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HyperLogic: A Hard, Forward-Authored Chinese Logical Reasoning Benchmark with Execution-Derived Answers

Existing logic benchmarks primarily measure models' ability to answer reasoning questions directly. Scalable benchmarks often generate text from formal structures, which makes answers easy to compute but fixes the formalization before the problem is written. Forward construction preserves the challenge of finding a fai...

Ming Zhang, Qiyuan Peng, Yinxi Wei et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rank-Turbulence Delta and Interpretable Approaches to Stylometric Delta Metrics

This article introduces two new measures for authorship attribution - Rank-Turbulence Delta and Jensen-Shannon Delta - which generalise Burrows's classical Delta by applying distance functions designed for probabilistic distributions. We first set out the theoretical basis of the measures, contrasting centred and uncen...

Dmitry Pronin, Evgeny Kazartsev · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can We Trust LLMs on Memristors? Diving into Reasoning Ability under Non-Ideality

Memristor-based analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures provide a promising substrate for the efficient deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), owing to superior energy efficiency and computational density. However, these architectures suffer from precision issues caused by intrinsic non-idealities of memristo...

Taiqiang Wu, Yuxin Cheng, Chenchen Ding et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RT-SFT: Text Style Transfer from Non-Parallel Corpora by Roundtrip Translation

Text style transfer (TST) is naturally a supervised task - rewrite a sentence in a target style while preserving its meaning - yet the parallel corpora that supervision requires exist for only a handful of style domains. A common workaround is to *normalize* an input into a style-agnostic intermediate and then *stylize...

Ruoxi Liu, Philipp Koehn · 0 citations

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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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