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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

The Devil Is in the Reconstruction Loss Scale: Rethinking Optimization in LLM Quantization

Post-training quantization (PTQ) methods typically use sequential quantization that partitions a pre-trained LLM into a series of units (e.g., transformer blocks), with one unit quantized at each stage. State-of-the-art PTQ methods are predominantly learning-based, optimizing auxiliary quantization parameters (e.g., sc...

Chao Li, Shi-Geng Wang, An-Bang Yao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

A Citation-Grounded Benchmark for Trustworthy Earnings Call Transcript Analysis with Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used for financial document analysis, including earnings call transcripts (ECTs). Beyond generating standalone claims, users increasingly prefer grounded analyses that pair claims with verifiable citations from source documents to enable independent validation. Howeve...

Ying-Zhu Zhao, Vlad Pandelea, Han Yuan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ReHoPER: Receding-Horizon Planning for Enhanced Reasoning

We propose ReHoPER, an inference-only, zero-shot method that improves large language models'reasoning by generating and answering intermediate questions along multiple paths before the final answer. It iteratively plans a horizon of candidate intermediate questions, selects one to answer, and replans from the updated h...

Saeed Ahmadnia, Cornelia Caragea · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Geometry of Contextual Relations: Language Models Address Facts by Order of Mention

Human reasoning depends on how objects are related within propositions. \textit{How do relations organize the language representations of contextual contents?} We give an LLM a list of facts in its context (e.g., \emph{Alice eats an apple. Bob eats a pear.}) and measure how its hidden state changes when the question sw...

Yufa Zhou · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Kinematic MeanFlow: One-Step Action Generation Policy for Robotic Foundation Models

In this paper, we study how to achieve one-step action generation in Robotic Foundation Models (RFMs), aiming to overcome the high inference latency of multi-step flow matching. MeanFlow provides a promising framework for this goal, yet its direct application leads to performance collapse. We discover that this stems f...

Jiawei Fan, Sifeng Wang, Yuqing Hou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Contextual trajectory and incremental contextual displacement: Towards using LLMs to understand dynamic, utterance-specific meaning construction

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) such as RoBERTa represent text using contextual word embeddings (CWEs), which alter the embeddings associated with each token based on surrounding context. We construct token-wise incremental trajectories by repeatedly recomputing a token's CWE as successive words are adde...

Grayson Wycliffe Storer, J. Zimmerman · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Verbalized and Internal Probabilities Are Coupled in Large Language Models

Large language models carry an internal notion of uncertainty in their sampling distribution, i.e., the probabilities they place on generating one answer rather than another. They can also be asked to state a confidence, in words or as a number: a verbalized uncertainty. Prior work suggests that internal probabilities...

Sinead Williamson, Jiaxuan Li, Nick Foti et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TabJoinBench: A Benchmark for Joinable Table Discovery

Join discovery aims to identify tables from large data repositories that can augment a query table with complementary information, enabling downstream tasks such as data exploration, feature engineering, and business intelligence. Although numerous join discovery methods have been proposed, existing studies rely on met...

S. De, Jin Wang, Vivek Gupta · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Pre-training interventions, ex post facto: Grafting model beliefs across checkpoints

Pre-training interventions are critical to alignment research, since beliefs formed during pre-training shape how a model generalizes from later training. One recently popular technique for such interventions is synthetic document fine-tuning (SDF), which aims to alter what the model believes. Ideally, synthetic docume...

Peter Nutter, Dani Roytburg, Cl\'ement Dumas et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Sequential Functional Structured Tucker Compression for Large Language Model Attentions

FTC, a sequential structured compression framework that adapts the approximation to the current compressed model while jointly exploiting the native Q/K/V head structure under a fixed storage budget, achieves the lowest WikiText-2 perplexity among the compared methods.

Jian Chen, Xin-Yu Wang, Tian-Shuo Yan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Initialization Improves LLM-Driven Discovery

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been used for novel discovery of algorithms, theorems, drugs, and other tasks through the use of harnesses that prompt an LLM to iteratively optimize an objective. In this work, we study the relationship between the population of previous iterates and eventual discovery success. We gen...

Mansi Sakarvadia, Marco Ciccone, Colin A. Raffel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

How Divergence Becomes Decision Flips in Compressed Language Models

Compression reports summarize how far a compressed language model moved from the dense one, usually by a KL divergence; a deployment that relies on the dense model's outputs needs to know how many of its decisions changed. We show that total variation, not KL, answers this directly. Across 802 compressed and perturbed...

Beatriz Almeida Felício · 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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