Large language models often lose track of persistent instructions and relevant information as multi-turn conversations grow. We study this cumulative contextual decay through three related failure modes: attention pollution, dilution, and drift. We propose REA(Role-aware Heuristic Episodic Attention), a context-managem...
Wan-Yang Hong, Zhao-Ning Zhang, Yi Chen et al.· 0 citations
As large language models (LLMs) move from standalone assistants into agentic workflows, evaluation must extend beyond scalar leaderboard accuracy to account for operational reliability, cost, latency, and token efficiency. We use an agentic ensemble of small language models (SLMs) with an SLM-judge-mediated feedback lo...
Alexei N. Skurikhin, Emily M. Taylor, Nathan A. DeBardeleben· 0 citations
As large language models are increasingly deployed across diverse downstream tasks, efficient task adaptation has emerged as a central challenge. In response, a wide range of task adaptation methods have been proposed, spanning parameter-efficient fine-tuning, in-context learning, and embedding-injection approaches. Ho...
Jungwon Park, Changin Choi, Jimyeong Kim et al.· 0 citations
Robust detection of AI-generated text under deployment conditions is challenging: distribution shifts across domains and generators, adversarial perturbations of the input surface, and the absence of target-domain labels for threshold calibration all degrade detectors that perform well in-domain. We present DeBERTa-Con...
Mohamed Mady, Yu-Pei Li, Johannes Reschke et al.· 1 citation· ⚡1
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Structured phonological representations provide an interpretable alternative to generic speech embeddings, but existing models are largely trained on adult speech. We adapt PhonoQ-2.0 to child speech using CHILDES-Aligned data and compare three alignment-supervision conditions (Adult, Adult+Child, and Child-only) acros...
Abner Hernandez, T. A. Vergara, Andreas K. Maier et al.· 0 citations
Objective: To assess the accuracy and efficiency of a large language model (LLM) using two prompt strategies to extract structured data from ophthalmic diagnostic PDF reports. Methods: Twenty deidentified reports across four types (Visual Field, OCT Glaucoma Overview, OCT retinal nerve fiber layer Single Exam, and OCT...
Umair A. Zaidi, An-Lun Wu, Wei-Chun Lin et al.· 0 citations
Synthetic data now is essential to LLM training, used to strengthen advanced capabilities such as autonomous and long-horizon task execution. Yet recent work shows that training on it at scale can degrade model generation, making it important to decide what synthetic data is worth training on. While current data curati...
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used for claim verification, yet remain brittle for numerical reasoning: even small changes in value can sharply degrade accuracy. We show that this brittleness persists in frontier LLMs, but can be mitigated through adversarial fine-tuning on numerically perturbed examples. Usin...
Language models (LMs) are increasingly used for tasks that require reasoning about hidden variables from a few observations, for which Bayesian inference is the normatively correct solution. While supervised fine-tuning of an LM on the outputs of an optimal $\textit{Bayesian}$ model leads to near-Bayesian behavior, sta...
Polina Tsvilodub, Andreas Waldis, Lin-Lu Qiu et al.· 0 citations
Bengali secondary education lacks curriculum-grounded benchmarks for STEM question-solving, and general-purpose language models struggle with the precise terminology, unit conventions, and derivations that physics problems demand. We introduce PhysicsMate, a benchmark of 1834 question-answer pairs built from the Nation...
Observing what a large language model computes during autoregressive inference--online and without training probes--remains difficult. We introduce Lingtai, a training-free concept telemetry layer: at each generation step, residual states are projected onto a domain-specific bank of named concept anchors, constructed w...
Mixture modeling is a long established machine learning technique for learning large sets of multi-modal data. While it is known that sequence-to-sequence models for dialog response generation suffer from the problem of low diversity, we hypothesize that it is because sequence-to-sequence models tend to learn a degener...
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.