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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Dial: A Knowledge-Grounded Dialect-Specific NL2SQL System

Enterprises commonly deploy heterogeneous database systems, each of which owns a distinct SQL dialect with different syntax rules, built-in functions, and execution constraints. However, most existing NL2SQL methods assume a single canonical dialect (e.g., SQLite) and struggle to produce queries that are both semantica...

Xiang Zhang, Hongming Xu, Le Zhou et al. · 0 citations

ILRR: Inference-Time Steering Method for Masked Diffusion Language Models

This work introduces Iterative Latent Representation Refinement (ILRR), an efficient framework for steering DLMs using a reference text as a high-level semantic blueprint and introduces Spatially Modulated Steering, an extension that enables long-form generation to be guided by shorter references by regulating intensit...

Eden Avrahami, Eliya Nachmani · 5 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

HumanAgencyBench: Scalable Evaluation of Human Agency Support in AI Assistants

As humans delegate more tasks and decisions to artificial intelligence (AI), we risk losing control of our individual and collective futures. Relatively simple algorithmic systems already steer human decision-making, such as social media feed algorithms that lead people to unintentionally and absent-mindedly scroll thr...

Benjamin Sturgeon, Daniel Samuelson, Jacob Haimes et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2025

TempCore: Are Video QA Benchmarks Temporally Grounded?

This work introduces Frame Selection Sensitivity (FSS), a per-sample diagnostic that measures how much VLM accuracy changes when the most relevant frames are replaced with the least relevant ones, and constructs TempCore, compact evaluation subsets that isolate temporal samples from existing benchmarks.

Hyunjong Ok, Jaeho Lee · 3 citations

Calpric: Inclusive and Fine-grain Labeling of Privacy Policies with Crowdsourcing and Active Learning

Calpric, which combines automatic text selection and segmentation, active learning and the use of crowdsourced annotators to generate a large, balanced training set for privacy policies at low cost, and produces models that are accurate over a wider range of data categories, and provide more detailed, fine-grain labels...

Wen-Jun Qiu, David Lie, Lisa M. Austin · 6 citations

Connect the Dots: Training LLMs for Long-Lifecycle Agents with Cross-Domain Generalization Via Reinforcement Learning

This work presents a general framework for training large language models (LLMs) to "Connect the Dots", a meta-capability required by long-lifecycle agents, and presents proof-of-concept implementations of the CoD framework, including a GRPO-style RL algorithm with fine-grained credit assignment.

Yan-Xi Chen, Wei-Jie Shi, Bo Hu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Beyond Forgetting: Representation Misdirection Elicits Controllable Side Behaviors and Capabilities

We consider Representation Misdirection (RM), a class of large language model (LLM) unlearning methods that achieve forgetting by redirecting the latent representations of forget-samples toward a target vector. Despite being important, the roles of the target vector used in RM, however, remain underexplored. Here, we a...

Tien Dang, The-Hai Nguyen, Dinh Mai Phuong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Ground-Truth Subgraphs for Better Training and Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Augmented LLMs

Retrieval of information from graph-structured knowledge bases represents a promising direction for improving the factuality of LLMs. While various solutions have been proposed, a comparison of methods is difficult due to the lack of challenging QA datasets with ground-truth targets for graph retrieval. We present Synt...

Alberto Cattaneo, Carlo Luschi, Daniel Justus · 0 citations
#machine learning Conference Oct 2025

Find Your Optimal Teacher: Personalized Data Synthesis via Router-Guided Multi-Teacher Distillation

PerSyn (Personalized data Synthesis), a novel synthesis strategy that operates under a new ``Route then Generate''paradigm to create data tailored to each student model, enabling it to learn more effectively, is proposed.

Hengyuan Zhang, Shi-Ping Yang, Xiao Liang et al. · 21 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ESLM: Risk-Averse Selective Language Modeling for Efficient Pretraining

Large language model pretraining is compute-intensive, yet many tokens contribute marginally to learning, resulting in inefficiency. We introduce Efficient Selective Language Modeling (ESLM), a risk-aware algorithm that improves training efficiency and distributional robustness by performing online token-level batch se...

Melis Ilayda Bal, Volkan Cevher, Michael Muehlebach · 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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