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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

PTC-Bias: Phoneme-Level Temporal Competition for Bias Retrieval and Post-Decoding Correction in Speech LLMs

PTC-Bias is proposed, a two-stage framework based on phoneme-level temporal competition that reduces near-homophone and word-segmentation errors while preserving correct transcriptions and shows consistent gains across two SpeechLLMs and bias lists of up to 2000 words.

Zhi-Qi Ai, Han Cheng, Shi-Yi Mu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Sep 2026

Benchmarking Argumentative Behaviour of LLMs: A Study of Defences Against Character Attacks

It is argued that current safety fine-tuning constraints the strategic action space of these LLMs, making them unable to fully engage in naturalistic interactions within domains where character contestation is a normative expectation rather than a mere fallacy.

Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzyńska, Jarosław A. Chudziak · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Framing by Wording, Framing by Selection: A Large-Scale Two-Dimensional Audit of French News Headlines, 2022-2025

News headlines frame public issues both by what they select and by how they word it, yet computational framing work typically collapses these operations into a single score. We introduce a two-dimensional framework that separates salience framing, measured through four wording devices (loaded vocabulary, blame attribut...

Amr Sobhy · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Who Owns the AI Recommendation? A Multi-Industry Empirical Map of Brand Category Ownership Across Large Language Models

This exploratory study measures brand inclusion across five industries, 50 brands and 250 queries, each put five times to GPT-5.2, Gemini 3 Flash and Perplexity sonar-pro in February and September 2026 (3,614 and 3,750 scored answers). Category Inclusion Rate, Recommendation Share, Competitive Vacuum Index and Co-Menti...

Dmitrij \.Zatuchin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Quantum Attention by Overlap Interference: Predicting Classical and Many-Body Quantum Sequences

We propose a variational quantum implementation of self-attention (QSA)-the core operation in transformers and large language models-which predicts future elements of a sequence by forming overlap-weighted combinations of past data. At variance with previous approaches, our QSA realizes the required nonlinearity throug...

Alessio Pecilli, Matteo Rosati · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Enabling Approximate Joint Sampling in Diffusion LMs

In autoregressive language models, each token is sampled by conditioning on all the past tokens; the overall string has thus been sampled from the correct underlying joint distribution represented by the model. In contrast, masked diffusion language models generate text by unmasking tokens out of order and potentially...

Parikshit Bansal, Sujay Sanghavi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Apr 2026

Invertible Query-Key Coupling Composes with Attention Mechanisms

Coupled query-key dynamics, a pre-scoring transformation that evolves each token's query and key jointly through a shared invertible coupling before standard scoring, is studied, finding that coupling is most useful in composition with a scoring-stage method rather than as a standalone change.

Barak Gahtan, A. M. Bronstein · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Agentic Detection of Online Conspiracies

The findings support viewing the task of conspiracy detection as a socially embedded interpretation task, in which effective classification depends not only on access to contexts, but also on adaptive reasoning in which the agent uses tools on a per-case basis, asking only for evidence relevant to its current reasoning...

Lior Biton, Oren Tsur · 0 citations

Do Audio Language Models Hear and Read Distinctive Features Alike?

Audio language models pass speech and text through a single decoder. We ask whether that decoder represents a distinctive feature in the same direction when a phoneme is heard and when it is read. For minimal pairs of phonemes differing in one feature, we take the offset between the two members'mean representations. Av...

Yuanhao Chen, Peter Chin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Return or Revise? Learning When Revision Helps Retrieval-Augmented QA

We consider the decision of whether to return an existing draft answer or revise it using retrieved evidence, as in answer-revision systems. Draft confidence estimates whether the current answer is correct, but the decision requires estimating the effect of a specified revision. For offline training and evaluation, we...

Nicholas Kashani Motlagh, Tim Anderson, Jeremy Gwinnup 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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