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ChildSafeAds Shared Task 2026: Commercial Content in Child-Facing YouTube Videos

Across four system papers, the linked promotional page mainly helped identify what was being sold and added little to compliance-risk classification, which exposed sensitivity to rare labels, advertiser overlap across splits and substantial variation in the ST3 labels.

Thales Bertaglia, Catalina Goanta, Gerasimos Spanakis et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Token Distribution versus Data Volume: Domain Balancing in Multi-Domain Meeting Summarisation

Jointly fine-tuning an LLM on meeting-summarisation corpora of widely varying size raises a question that prior work leaves confounded: when a domain-balanced training mixture helps, is the gain due to the distribution of tokens across domains, or merely to the volume of data seen? We disentangle these factors by const...

Ashima Sood, Bryan Gardiner, Joan Condell · 0 citations

Policy-Conditioned Constrained Decoding for Column-Level Access Control in Text-to-SQL

A per-token logits mask is applied that deterministically eliminates single-query column-use violations on the supported SQL fragment in a single decoding pass and achieves 0% Leakage Rate and Coverage up to 88.7% on Spider-CU, while staying within +10% tokens of direct prompting.

Ryoto Miyamoto, Xin Fan, Hayato Yamana · 0 citations

JetSpec: Breaking the Scaling Ceiling of Speculative Decoding with Parallel Tree Drafting

JetSpec is proposed, a head-based SD framework that combines one-forward drafting efficiency with branch-wise causal conditioning that enables JetSpec to convert larger draft budgets into longer accepted prefixes and higher end-to-end speedup.

Lan-Xiang Hu, Zhao-Xiang Feng, Yulun Wu et al. · 15 citations · ⚡1
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

The Holistic Storage of Verb+Up Phrases in Text-based and Audio-based Language Models

One of the most central aspects of language processing is the ability to trade off between stored representations and abstract knowledge: one must retrieve stored representations, but also generate novel ones by applying productive rules. While recent work has examined abstract knowledge in language models, holistic st...

Zachary Nicholas Houghton, Yu Zhou, Dan Pluth et al. · 0 citations

UXBench: Benchmarking User Experience in AI Assistants

The first user-centric benchmark grounded in real user feedback signals for evaluating preference alignment and dialogue generation is presented, demonstrating that user feedback prediction is a learnable capability and revealing different aspects that influence user experience.

Mengze Hong, Xia Zeng, Zeyang Lei et al. · 1 citation

Inside the LLM Word Factory

This work ventures deep into detokenization using activation patching in controlled paired experiments that isolate the contribution of different model components, localizing English detokenization in Llama2-7B to a two-stage process at Layer 1.

Benzi Busigin, Yuval Pinter · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ReadingMachine: A Computational Methodology for Structured Corpus Reading and Large-Scale Synthesis

ReadingMachine is a computational methodology for structured corpus reading that uses large language models to perform bounded reading operations over entire document collections. Rather than relying on retrieval or recursive summarization, the approach decomposes analysis into inspectable stages including insight extr...

James Morrissey · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

FinEvolveBench: A Benchmark for Self-Evolving Agents on Low-Repetition Tasks with Implicit Rewards

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external experience to continually adapt to changing environments without modifying their underlying models. Recent experience mechanisms have demonstrated promising results across diverse tasks. However, their effectiveness is typically evaluated within individual...

Yining Zhu, Zihao Deng, Leiming Wang et al. · 0 citations

DySem: Uncovering Dynamic Semantic Components of Large Language Models for Calculating Semantic Textual Similarity

DySem is proposed, a novel training-free framework that investigates more semantic-related internal components of LLMs via multilingual consensus, and shifts away from static representation spaces in favor of dynamic, sample-specific semantic dimensions by constructing text-dependent joint semantic set and computes sim...

Kaijie Zheng, Wei-Qin Wang, Yi-Le Wang 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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