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#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

The Male Abstraction Bias in Internet Culture and Large Language Models

Conceptual abstraction and gender are two equally central aspects of the human mind, yet they have traditionally been studied in isolation from one another, as though they were fundamentally separate. Here, we find gender and abstraction are systematically linked throughout the space of concepts spanning single (N = 40...

Douglas Guilbeault, Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Grounded but Not Immune: Confirmation Bias in Agent-as-a-judge

Evaluating open-ended agent tasks increasingly falls to an Agent-as-a-Judge: an evaluator handed tools and the agent's full trajectory so it can verify a result against the environment. The premise is that a judge that gathers its own evidence should be grounded by it. We show that this grounding does not immunize the...

Drake Benjamin Brown, Khushbu Pahwa, Yubin Ge et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

AGORA: Reliability-Aware Aggregation of LLM Judges via Item-Response Theory

LLM-as-a-judge is a common substitute for costly human evaluation, and aggregating several judges is the standard remedy for any single judge's bias. Judge pools mix judges of very different reliability, while the human-labeled sets that validate them hold a few hundred items or fewer. In this regime the per-item mean...

Junhyung Ahn · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Iterated creation, grading, and revision of data science projects by language models

We evaluate the extent to which agentic AI models can complete an end-to-end data science project, and how this improves with feedback. A 'writer' model with specific tools creates a complete data science project including downloading, cleaning, and analyzing a dataset, and writing a short paper about it. The project i...

Rohan Alexander · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SlackBench: Benchmarking Agents on Collaborative Projects Grounded in Real Code Repositories

AI Agents are becoming digital coworkers that can browse the web, write code, run experiments, and assist humans over extended horizons. Yet existing benchmarks fall short of real knowledge work: many rely on synthetic data or isolated tasks, missing the complex, multi-party dynamics of collaborative projects, where cr...

Mingxuan Li, Huanzhi Mao, Ruitao Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Unlocking Turing Tensor Cores: A Measured Throughput Account of From-Scratch Pre-training on a Single 22G RTX 2080 Ti

The RTX 2080 Ti (TU102) ships full second-generation Tensor Cores in hardware, yet the vendor throttles FP16 matrix multiplication at the driver level, leaving usable tensor throughput well below the hardware peak. turing-unlock lifts this restriction with a kernel module that, before the nvidia driver binds the device...

Dezhou Shen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Challenge-Aware Knowledge Recruitment with Meta-Agent Supervision for Medical Multi-Agent Reasoning

Large language models perform strongly on standard medical QA but degrade on harder reasoning tasks, where multi-agent debate often fails to beat strong single-model prompting. We argue that a key limitation is that existing systems select experts and retrieve knowledge from the question alone, rather than from gaps th...

Riccardo Riccio, Haitz S\'aez de Oc\'ariz Borde, Pietro Li\`o · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Agent Harness Awareness: Turning Verified Telemetry into Operational Control for Tool-Using Agents

Tool descriptions tell an agent what an action can do, but they do not necessarily reveal whether that action is healthy or suitable at the moment of use. Execution harnesses often possess this information through monitors, traces, and recent failures while the model choosing the next action does not. We call this gap...

Manu Agrawal, Shrey Nagpal · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SpecCompact: Accelerating LLM Agent Context Compaction with Slot-Parallel Semantic Speculative Verification

LLM agents use context compaction to manage growing interaction histories, but summarizing long histories with large models can introduce substantial delays. Compaction therefore requires balancing information retention against latency. We observe that structured summary slots can retain information when generated inde...

Yulu An, Yifei Feng, Xiangyang Yin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Balancing hierarchical representation and quantization: A performance trade-off in text embeddings

Hierarchical text embedding models offer variable-length representations, while quantization reduces numerical precision; both aim to improve computational efficiency. This work is an empirical benchmark study of how these two orthogonal, already-established techniques interact. We evaluate 38 tasks from the Massive Te...

Kai Ponel, Marco Polignano, Erasmo Purificato et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Nov 2026

Persona Perspectives: Adopting Viewpoints Reorganizes Representations in LLMs

Common methods for monitoring features in large language models (LLMs) such as linear probes and sparse autoencoders (SAEs) assume that features maintain a consistent representation across contexts. LLMs, however, can flexibly adopt different perspectives or"personas"that suggest different underlying systems of concept...

Austin C. Kozlowski, Avi I. Mintz, Madison Lee · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Before You Continue: Evaluating Time-Sensitive Safety Awareness in Conversational Assistants

Large language model (LLM) assistants increasingly help users with everyday activities that involve time-dependent constraints. However, users may not mention these constraints in later requests, requiring assistants to recognize and adjust their advice accordingly. To evaluate such capability, we introduce TASC (Tempo...

Peidi Dong, Yunze Xiao, Yu-Lin Tsai 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.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2026

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 15, 2026

Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar

Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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