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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Meet, Compare, or Abstain: LatWeave for Deterministic Multi-Hop Question Answering on Knowledge Lattices

Probabilistic question-answering systems -- whether large language models (LLMs) themselves, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or trained multi-hop retrievers -- conflate"what is known"and"how to reason"into a single probabilistic computation: hallucination cannot be eradicated, evidence chains cannot be audited, a...

Yu Ren, Shao-Heng Fan, Tao Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LOCKR: A Hidden-State Trajectory-Guided Planner for Detecting and Repairing Stable-but-Wrong Lock-In in Diffusion Language Models

Hidden diffusion trajectories are established as actionable signals for selective test-time reasoning repair and LOCKR, a hidden-state trajectory-guided planner that decides when to allocate additional computation, expands a structured set of targeted repair branches, and selects the most promising continuation using t...

Guoshenghui Zhao, Tan Yu, Wei-Jie Zhao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Phonemizing User-Generated Text: A Benchmark, Taxonomy, and Compositional Approach

Text-to-speech systems increasingly process user-generated text (UGT) such as ppl and imo, whose pronunciation must be inferred from the canonical rather than surface form. We introduce UGTPhon, the first grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) benchmark for UGT in English, Vietnamese, and Korean, together with an inference-grounded...

Minju Jeon, Youngha Park, Han Sung Park et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LeakScale: Estimating the Causal Effect of Benchmark Exposure

Evidence that evaluation material entered training does not reveal how much it affected evaluation. This distinction leaves a contaminated benchmark score difficult to interpret: provenance can establish contact, but only a counterfactual can quantify the performance attributable to that contact. We present LeakScale,...

Divyansh Singh · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Count Evidence, Not Sentences: Tempered Evidence Fusion of LLM Judgments for Long-Text Value Measurement

Tempered Evidence Fusion (TEF) is proposed, a training-free rule that weights each sentence's log-odds by its normalized information gain, as derived from a generalized Bayesian posterior, making the fused score nearly vanish for uncertain sentences while preserving the Bayes-optimal weight of decisive evidence.

Yu-He Wu, Rui Qian, Guang-Yu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

What Changes When Fact-Verification Scores Improve? Evidence and Answer Accounting Across Trained Verifiers and LLMs

Post-hoc analyses quantify changes in answers and submitted evidence, and show when aggregate accuracy and evidence-coverage rates miss the claim-level pattern, as well as revealing changes that endpoint and aggregate metrics leave unresolved.

Han-Xiu Chen, Ying-Rui Li · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

The Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC): An Open Tool and Reproducible Pipeline for Analyzing Social Group Discourse at Scale

We introduce the Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC), an open, modular, and accessible corpus of 527 million+ English-language Reddit posts selected for relevance to six key social group distinctions based on race, sexuality, age, ability, body weight, and skin tone, covering the 17-year period from 2007...

Babak Hemmatian, Sarah Hadjarab, Jessica Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Sep 2026

When Learned Context Planning Fails to Beat Strong Retrieval: A Controlled Study of Planning, Routing, and Reranking for Long-Context QA

Under this setup, learned planning is a weak relevance signal rather than a replacement for strong retrieval, and packing-order and score-flatness analyses did not identify a stable mechanism.

Ying-Rui Li, Han-Xiu Chen · 0 citations

Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court

A sentence-level benchmark for evaluating the ability of LLMs to classify interpretive canons as articulated by Larenz in the tradition of Savigny is contributed, operationalizing this conception of interpretation as classification criteria.

Felix Ringe · 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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