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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

FORGE: Form-Optimal Routing of Grounded Evidence for Frozen LLM Agents

ForGE is proposed, a unified framework for adapting frozen models through per-query routing over a joint action space that spans both support form and thinking depth and improves accuracy at 42-45% lower token cost on both main hosts.

Xi Xiao, Yun-Bei Zhang, Chen Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

DreamingGoose: Staged Distillation from Autoregressive Transformers to Bidirectional Recurrent Diffusion Language Models

Pretrained autoregressive Transformers represent a large sunk investment in compute. Existing conversion methods reuse that investment by changing either the architecture (attention to recurrence) or the objective (next-token prediction to denoising), never both. We convert Qwen3 teachers at 1.7B and 8B into attention-...

Julian Boesch, Andrew Wee, Alexander Stranzl · 1 citation · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Loop Dropout: Regularizing Shared Updates in Looped Language Models

Loop Dropout is introduced, which couples stochastic masking of adapter applications with inverse-survival rescaling to preserve expected update strength and promote effective adaptation across loops and outperforms existing LoRA variants and adapter regularizers.

Zi-Rui Zhu, Hai-Lun Xu, Xuan-Lei Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

X-MoD: Practical Scaling Laws for Sparse-Depth Routing Beyond Mixture-of-Depths

Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) enables conditional computation across Transformer depth by routing only a subset of tokens through selected layers, but its original one-sparse--one-dense alternation tightly couples total capacity to active capacity and limits sparse-depth scaling. We introduce X-MoD, a scalable sparse-depth a...

Bowen Dong, Yilong Fan, Tengyu Pan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Training and Inference Dynamics of PLDR-LLMs: Row-Map Collapse, Renormalization, and Predictive Reduction

This monograph develops a unified account of training and inference in Power Law Decoder Representation language models (PLDR-LLMs) with exact identities, conditional dynamical claims, and finite empirical findings, with proofs, selected formal checks, and compact numerical evidence.

Burc Gokden · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Steering Language Model Goals with Value Transplant

Value transplant works in both directions, with an honest donor reducing test-gaming in a cheating host and a cheating donor increasing test-gaming in an honest host, showing that this signal can influence which strategy the model follows.

Peng-Cheng Jiang, Fabien Roger · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Where Activation Sparsity and KV-Cache Sparsity Cross in LLM Decoding

A byte crossover is derived, the context length at which the two savings are equal, together with ideal speedup bounds for each branch and for their composition, from model dimensions and keep ratios alone and is derived at https://github.com/js-lee-AI/ByteCross.

Jungseob Lee, Seungyoon Lee, Seongtae Hong et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Rethinking Contextualization by Reinterpreting Attention Head Channels

It is found and estimated that different words carry different amounts of information, and less-informative words tend to absorb more contextual information, and finer-grained selectivity enables more precise routing to promote information transmission between matched words.

Hakaze Cho, Hao-Lin Yang, Zhun Sun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

ChemOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Task Chemical Reasoning

Examining task affinities from supervised fine-tuning gradients and solving a constrained mixed-integer program(MIP) to construct partially overlapping specialist groups highlights specialization and capability integration as connected but distinct design problems in chemical reasoning.

Yao-Yao Xu, Xinjian Zhao, Xiao-Zhuang Song et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Quantifying Behavioral Tails in Black-Box Language Models

RareTrap provides model developers a principled approach for evaluating language models under a common distribution, and prioritizing alignment effort to improve safety and mitigate risks.

Elsayed Eshra, Ali Al-Lawati, Dongwon Lee 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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