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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Strong Multilingual Privacy Tagging at Encoder Speed

A multilingual named-entity tagger with fine-grained distinctions supporting varied redaction policies and methods for cheaply learning additional distinctions is developed, and a multilingual encoder with an affine span-tagging head is fine-tuned for frontier-model annotations in 35 languages.

Jonathan Graehl · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Marking Contour Tones in Yor\`{u}b\'{a}: A Typographic and Computational Proposal

Yor\`ub\'a is a tonal language in which contour tones pose persistent orthographic challenges. These are especially notable for personal names and lexical items whose conventional spellings avoid vowel lengthening that would otherwise provide a host syllable for the second tone. A particular concern is a class of names...

Kólá Túbosún · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

StreamDecisionBench: Evaluating Decisions in Force on Evolving Language Streams

Language models increasingly make real-time decisions in applications that apply the latest answer until a newer one arrives. A late answer can prolong an outdated decision, such as a call recorder still running while a customer reads out card details, an error offline accuracy misses. We make three contributions. Firs...

Jhen-Ke Lin, Chung-Chun Wang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

DEdit: Iterative Draft Editing for Speculative Decoding

DEdit is introduced, a diffusion-based drafter that can not only draft by conventional parallel unmasking but also iteratively edit its draft through token-to-token predictions, and ProposalMix, a training scheme that mixes draft predictions with ground-truth tokens based on first-pass confidence during training.

Long-Xuan Yu, Bingsen Chen, Peng Shi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Evaluating Whether LLMs Can Reliably Connect the DOTs?

Access to real-world information is often noisy and fragmented. Constructing a coherent narrative from such fragments requires models to reconstruct missing spans within a broader storyline, commonly referred to as text infilling, while preserving consistency with both the local context and the global storyline. Despit...

Eftekhar Hossain, John Salvador, Santu Karmaker · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Evaluating Language Model Safety Across Long Adversarial Conversations

Proof-of-concept evidence that strong single-turn safety does not necessarily persist during sustained adversarial interaction is provided, highlighting the need for long-horizon evaluations and conversation-level safeguards that account for risk accumulating across turns.

Parisa Salmani, Peter R. Lewis · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Halluscoring 2026: The first shared task on llms hallucination detection and answer verification

The shared task is a shared task for evaluating hallucination detection and factual verification in Arabic question answering under challenging generalization settings, based on two Arabic datasets: HalluScore and HalluTruthQA.

Aisha Alansari, Abdessalam Bouchekif, A. Hasanaath et al. · 0 citations

Framing the Narrative: Ideological Mimicry in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer questions about politically contentious issues, yet evaluations typically treat a model's stance as a relatively stable property. Real users, however, communicate political signals through their terminology, assumptions, and personal context. We investigate w...

Olivia Macmillan-Scott, Michael B. Jacobs, Nils W. Metternich et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Large Language Models are Approximate Survival Estimators

Survprompt is introduced, a framework that converts structured patient covariates into free-text clinical vignettes and prompts pre-trained LLMs to predict survival zero-shot, and feature ablations revealed that LLMs prioritized clinical variables similarly to specialized survival models.

Juan M. Zambrano-Chaves, Peniel N. Argaw, Risa Ueno et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

EVOKE: Eliciting World Knowledge in Agents for Transferable Decision-Making

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents for multi-step decision-making, yet transfer poorly to unseen environments. World-model methods address this by training agents to predict future observations, at the cost of additional training and errors that compound when predictions are used for plann...

Yu-Han Guo, Jin-Ming Liu, Liang Xu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Offline Guidance, Online Reasoning: Reusing LLM Feedback for Small Language Models

Reusable Latent Correction (RLC) is proposed, which converts one-off natural-language guidance from a black-box LLM into persistent corrective experiences in the hidden space of an SLM, enabling the SLM to reuse LLM-derived corrections during inference without any online LLM calls.

Bo-Han Zhang, Li-Nan Yue, Weibo Gao 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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