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Likelihood Ranking doesn't Scale Like Prompting in LLMs

It is suggested that likelihood preferences over controlled declarative alternatives and task-conditioned answer selection probe distinct aspects of model behavior, and should not be treated as interchangeable.

Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro, D. Bacciu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space

Sparse AutoEncoders (SAEs) offer a promising way to inspect language model representations, but it is still unclear what kind of linguistic structure their latents expose. We use part-of-speech (PoS) categories as a controlled test case to study whether morpho-syntactic information is encoded by individual latents or b...

Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro, Serena Auriemma et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Grammatical"grandmother neurons"are rare in LLMs

Understanding how Large Language Models (LLMs) encode linguistic structures remains a fundamental challenge in interpretability research. While diagnostic classifiers (or"probes") are widely used for this task, they face significant methodological criticism: training auxiliary classifiers introduces capacity confounds...

Lin-Yang He, N. Mesgarani · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

pylazaro: a Python package for anglicism extraction in Spanish

Lexical borrowings are words from one language that are introduced into another language. Identifying lexical borrowings in text is a relevant task for data-centric fields in Linguistics such as lexicography or corpus linguistics, but none of the standard libraries for text processing offers such a functionality. In th...

Elena Álvarez-Mellado · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

EAGER: Enhancing Generative Event Extraction via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

End-to-end event extraction remains challenging for large language models as it requires simultaneous identification of event triggers, classification of event types, and extraction of schema-grounded argument spans. We present EAGER, a reinforcement learning framework for generative event extraction that combines fine...

Omar Adjali, Siting Liang, Omair Shahzad Bhatti et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Predicting Emerging Topics from Outliers: A Prospective Study of Weak Signals in Embedding Space

Some documents that embedding-based topic models initially classify as noise later become founding members of emerging topics. At publication time, however, they appear as scattered points in embedding space and are difficult to distinguish from ordinary noise without the benefit of hindsight. We study whether such ant...

Evangelia Zve, Gauvain Bourgne, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

BanglaKontho: Closing the Long-Form Gap in Bangla Text-to-Speech

Bangla, the seventh most spoken language in the world, remains under-resourced for neural text-to-speech. Public Bangla speech corpora are dominated by short read-prompt utterances collected for speech recognition, leaving long-form prosody and consistent single-speaker narration uncovered. We present BanglaKontho, a s...

M. Maruf · 0 citations

COILD: An Indic-Centric Parallel Corpus and Benchmark for Machine Translation Across Indian Languages

COILD, an Indic-centric parallel corpus comprising over 1.16 million human-translated and human-verified sentence pairs, covers 20 Indian language pairs across the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Austro-Asiatic language families, and provides a valuable training and evaluation resource for advancing multiling...

Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Nitin Kumar Mishra, P. Dutta et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Script Choice in LLMs: Evidence for Late-Layer Commitment

This paper investigates how script knowledge is distributed across the layers of LLMs using two complementary interpretability methods: logistic regression probing and logit-lens analysis, which show that script commitment consistently occurs at the very last layers of the LLMs.

David Kletz, Sandra Mitrovic, Itay Sabato et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Temporal Taxation Compounds Under Post-Training Compression of Whisper Models

It is shown that single-snapshot fairness audits on full-precision models do not capture the deployment-time burden that compression places on already-marginalized speakers, and cast the temporal-taxation construct of Choi and Choi (2025) as a quantitative metric.

Srishti Ginjala, E. Fosler-Lussier, Christopher W. Myers 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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