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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Are You Sure You're Sure? Two Confounds in a Sycophancy Benchmark

An audit of SycEval, which reports that objections raised before a model answers (preemptive) cause more caving than those raised after (in-context), and attributes the gap to timing, and builds the missing comparison and tests it on multiple-choice questions and SycEval's own free-form pipeline.

Atharva Gupta, A. Jindal, Lavanya Nigam et al. · 1 citation

On the Behavioral Traits of LLM Agents

This work proposes A-B-D to infer traits bottom-up from behavioral data (B-data), namely how agents act on their environment and communicate with users, as recorded in existing trajectories, and offers a new lens for understanding AI personality.

Hao-Kai Zhao, Jie Gao, Yunze Xiao et al. · 0 citations

C-HAT-Bench: Benchmarking Chinese AI-Text Detection Beyond Fully Generated Text

A Chinese Human-AI Collaborative Text Detection Benchmark (C-HAT-Bench), a unified benchmark that links human-written source texts from five domains to variants produced using six generative models under Prefix-Conditioned Continuation as a reference setting and three collaborative production modes.

Qing Yang, Zi-Xiang Luo, Zhen-Yun Mao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Conference Open access Sep 2026

Focusing Condition: Inference-Time Self-Contrastive Steering Elicits Better Conditional Text Embeddings in LLMs

This work proposes an inference-time, plug-and-play Self-Contrastive Steering (SCS) method that constructs unconditional general text embeddings and uses them to refine conditional text embeddings, making them more focused on the target condition.

Zi-Feng Cheng, Ling-Yun Qian, Zhi-Wei Jiang et al. · 1 citation
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

From Knowing to Abstaining: Bridging the Representation-Action Gap in Vision-Language Models

Rep2Act, a representation-to-action alignment method that translates latent answerability awareness into explicit abstention decisions, is introduced, a representation-to-action alignment method that translates latent answerability awareness into explicit abstention decisions.

Jia-Luo He, Huang-Xun Chen · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

ExpVoyager: Direct Experience Navigation for Dynamic Agent Skill Synthesis

This paper proposes ExpVoyager, a novel framework in which a skill curator navigates raw experience across different views and resolutions, continually identifying reusable procedural knowledge from what it observes while tracking remaining knowledge needs that guide where to navigate next.

Kwangwook Seo, Dong-Ha Lee · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MixDetect: Word-Level Localization and Quantification of AI Editing

Large language models are increasingly used to edit human-written text rather than generate entire texts from scratch. Conventional AI-text detectors mainly distinguish human-written from fully AI-generated text, while recent methods for AI-edited text typically provide only a text-level label or editing-degree score....

Hongrui Bao, Yubing Ren, Zhendong Pan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Does CoT-Pass@k Really Check the CoT? A Multilingual Mathematical Audit

Pass@k measures whether a model reaches a correct answer under repeated sampling, but never how: a lucky guess counts the same as sound reasoning. CoT-Pass@k was proposed to close that gap, adding an LLM-as-judge that must assess a solution's reasoning chain before it counts. Its value rests entirely on one assumption:...

Tarık Tuna Taşaltı, Burcu Hudaverdi, David Semedo · 0 citations

How to Reduce Whisper Hallucination

The authors collect 40,891 hallucination phrases in 100 languages, choose a text-to-speech system by measurement, and synthesise those phrases as positives, so the model meets the same text both as something to suppress and as something to transcribe.

Husein Zolkepli · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Locally Sound, Globally Insufficient: The Local-Global Gap in Multi-Hop Reasoning

Instead of post-hoc diagnosis, E-Closure is introduced to supervise three dependencies for reliable reasoning during training, combining generation supervision on supported original and counterfactual responses with bidirectional switching constraints.

Bo-Hao Chu, Hendrik Damm, Qianli Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

PC-SubMax: Efficient Prompt Compression via Regularized Submodular Maximization

While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in long-context scenarios, lengthy prompts can increase inference costs and latency and exacerbate the ``lost-in-the-middle''phenomenon. Selective prompt compression offers a model-agnostic approach to alleviating these issues. However, methods based on fixed...

Zi-Yi Zhang, Shuang Cui, Hao-Tian Zhang et al. · 1 citation

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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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