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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

EpiWorld: Grounding LLM Policy Agents in Epidemiological World Models

Epidemic intervention policies are textual artefacts that human decision-makers interpret, justify, and revise through natural language, making large language models a natural candidate for epidemic policy reasoning. A naive LLM, however, lacks the epidemic dynamics needed to project intervention consequences, the quan...

Zeeshan Memon, Yi-Qi Su, Kai Shu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Correctness: Resolving Underspecification in Agentic Text-to-SQL

Agentic Text-to-SQL systems can interact with users to clarify underspecified queries before generating SQL. However, a correct execution result does not necessarily imply that the agent has adequately resolved the underlying underspecification: the agent may silently make unverified assumptions that happen to match th...

Wen-Zhi Li, Yue Gong, Konstantinos Kanellis et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Silent Dissent: LLM Agents That Yield to the Majority Still Represent Their Original Premise

Multi-agent debate is increasingly used to reach consensus among LLM agents, yet agents often yield to a unanimous majority. When an agent changes its answer, has it changed its mind or only its statement? We study this with two-hop factual questions whose intermediate entity (the bridge, e.g. the country in"the capita...

Zi-Yi Ni, Peng-Jia Zou · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Learning When to Commit from Partial Speech for End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation

Simultaneous speech translation must emit useful target text before the source is complete while preserving every committed token. We adapt a full-utterance speech language model using prefix supervision derived from its own complete- and partial-waveform translations, requiring neither transcripts nor human translatio...

Hieu Hoang, Amittai Axelrod · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Generalization of Large Language Models in Temporal Extraction Tasks

Time and event expression extraction are fundamental temporal reasoning tasks, but the problem remains difficult due to annotation ambiguity, domain sensitivity, and unstable model behavior. Existing evaluations focus on in-domain performance, offering limited insight into reliability under distribution shifts. We eval...

Fahmid Shahriar Iqbal, Ritam Dutt, Soumitra Das et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A generative-informed neuro-symbolic framework for syntactic ambiguity resolution: Evidence from Arabic DPs

Syntactic ambiguity poses a persistent challenge for Arabic NLP, particularly in morphologically rich nominal constructions where multiple structu6ral interpretations may be compatible with the same surface sequence. This study proposes a generatively informed neuro-symbolic framework for resolving structural ambiguity...

Mohammed Damom, Muneef Y. Alshawsh, Ashraf A. Naji et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Finding the Move Is Not Winning the Game: XiangqiBench for Closed-Loop Evaluation of LLM Agents

Static evaluations credit a language model for naming the right move, but an agent must carry a plan through to a verified outcome while an opponent responds. We introduce XiangqiBench, an executable benchmark that measures this difference in Chinese chess: starting from 119 tactical endgames with forced mates supporte...

Yekun Chai, Qiwei Peng, Hao-Yi Xiong · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

HakemBench: A Turkish Benchmark of Typed Decisions

HakemBench is a Turkish benchmark of typed decisions, in which the model under test reads a text, a question and a fixed set of options and returns a probability for every option. Version 1.0 is released fully open under CC BY 4.0, with 2,346 items and 4,275 choice, yes/no and score questions in seven tracks (fact-chec...

Sait Furkan Teke · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Useful Features, Backward Scores: OOD in Language-Model Trajectories

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detectors prioritize inputs for closer inspection. Yet features that distinguish input groups need not yield a useful anomaly ranking. We analyze this gap in language-model trajectories under text-length control and fixed score directions. On Spam development data, an input adaptation of D^2HS...

Hamidreza Saghir · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Denser $\neq$ Better: Limits of On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continual Post-Training

Continual post-training enables foundation models to acquire new knowledge while preserving existing capabilities. Recent work suggests that on-policy learning can mitigate forgetting, with self-distillation as a particularly attractive approach. We revisit this optimistic claim through self-distillation policy optimiz...

Meng Wang, Haohan Zhao, Wenzhuo Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Oct 2026

FALCON: A Model and Dataset Agnostic Framework for Synthetic Data Generation for NL2SQL Pairs

Relational databases are among the most widely deployed forms of structured knowledge, and natural language access to them requires grounding language onto schema entities and relations while handling the ambiguity inherent in how people phrase requests. Existing synthetic NL-to-SQL data generation methods largely igno...

Darian Lee, Shannon Rumsey, J. St. Clair 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.

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