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Reward-Tilted On-Policy Distillation for Acoustic Grounding in Audio-Language Models

Experiments with silenced and replacement audio suggest that RT-OPD strengthens the student's reliance on acoustic evidence, and the 3B model achieves 72.72% accuracy on MMAU, the highest among the compared 3B models and competitive with several 7B and 8B models.

Kai-Yang Li, Shaobo Han, Yue Tian et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

BiMamba2 Masked Discrete-Unit Prediction for Multilingual Speech Representation for Unsupervised Speech in the Wild Challenge

A local-official discrepancy in metric scale and checkpoint ranking is analyzed, highlighting limitations of in-distribution diagnostics for predicting Dynabench probe outcomes and a local-official discrepancy in metric scale and checkpoint ranking is analyzed.

P. Subedi, Howard Prioleau, Saurav K. Aryal · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Small yet Assistive: Spatially-Aware Post-Training for Low Vision

Results show that BLV-focused post-training improves both accessibility-specific spatial grounding and general visual-text reasoning, and is substantially outperforms the baseline across various benchmarks.

Rishabh C. Choudhary, S. Raj, Umesh Goyal et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Spooftral: Can Voxtral Audio-Language Model Detect Speech Spoofing?

This study examines the Voxtral audio-language model (ALM) framework for spoofing detection, as a step toward combining CM capabilities within the ALM framework, and proposes an instruction-guided approach that uses label-sequence likelihoods to evaluate bonafide and spoofed speech.

Avishai Weizman, Yehuda Ben-Shimol, I. Lapidot · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

The Domestic Unprotected Zone: Algorithmic Governance and the Reproduction of Perpetrator Discourse in Conversational AI

A three-stage audit of six widely accessible conversational AI systems compares refusal behaviour across 1,600 crossed prompts per system, isolates relational framing through 300 matched prompt pairs, and contrasts pre-submission framing with post-output critique across fresh sessions.

Lyu Chang, Sònia Estradé Albiol, Núria Vergés Bosch · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

JevOut: Natural Context Can Flip Decision Models

This work uncovers short context additions that redirect 61.4%-73.2% of each decision system's initially correct decisions toward a wrong option fixed in advance, exposing a weakness in current decision models.

Zi-Xiang Xu, Zirui Song, Chi-Yu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

ARGUS: Role-Aware Event Knowledge Graphs for U.S. Employment-Discrimination Complaints

ARGUS, a source-grounded pipeline that combines a 5W1H-inspired schema, legal-domain models, and LLM-based structured generation to construct document-level Event Knowledge Graphs (EKGs) from CourtListener complaints, suggests that EKGs are most useful for organizing and reasoning over evidence once relevant material h...

Sriram Kannan, Swetha Saseendran, Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Kandi et al. · 0 citations

A Training Criterion with Token-Level Tolerance to Transcription Ambiguity for Automatic Speech Recognition

Automatic speech recognition is typically trained assuming that the reference transcript is the only valid labeling of an utterance, yet even nominally verbatim transcripts contain localized differences in pronunciation, spelling, or lexical realization that the acoustics do not uniquely determine. Omni-temporal Classi...

Saurabh Kumar, Diptiman Mohanta, P. Ghosh · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

What, When, and How: Audio Description as Constrained Global Optimization

This hybrid system uses large language models to propose and ground visual elements, estimate their salience to the narrative, and generate compressed realizations, which makes better decisions than prompted LLMs about what to describe and when to describe it.

Igor Sterner, Mirella Lapata, A. Lascarides 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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