Letting a language model take gradient steps on the text it is reading, known as dynamic evaluation, lowers its loss on the rest of the document. Its behaviour on hybrid linear-attention architectures, on diffusion language models, and on standard long-context benchmarks has not been measured. We measure it. With one S...
Harness self-evolution offers a practical route for LLM agents to improve from execution experience without updating model parameters. Its effectiveness depends on whether models can successfully act on the guidance provided by their harnesses. However, we find that harness benefits are not uniform across model capabil...
Zhi-Hao Yang, Haojin Wang, Jun-Cheng Wu et al.· 0 citations
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly deliver information through personas, but it is unclear whether correcting the facts also makes their framing consistent across identity labels. We audited four LLMs (GPT-5.4 mini, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano, Llama 4 Scout, and Claude Haiku 4.5), which rated simulated affect on six...
Nouar Aldahoul, M. J. Tan, Yasir Zaki· 0 citations
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are a promising paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet they remain prone to hallucinations and erroneous outputs. Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is crucial for assessing system reliability, but existing methods are largely designed for single-agent set...
Han Li, Jinhao Duan, Xiao-Shuang Shi et al.· 0 citations
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While recent advances in autonomous agents enable them to coordinate on increasingly complex tasks, prior work shows that this growing capacity for coordination can create safety risks, including collusion, in which agents jointly pursue misaligned actions while concealing the true basis of those actions from oversight...
Eric Onyame, Runtao Zhou, Kowshik Thopalli et al.· 0 citations
Computational pathology (CPath) analyses increasingly depend on multi-step computational workflows that require substantial programming expertise, limiting their accessibility to pathologists and other domain experts without extensive coding experience. Although large language models (LLMs) provide a promising natural-...
Aakash Madhav Rao, Mark Eastwood, Danielle Belgrave et al.· 0 citations
Automated research pipelines increasingly rely on fixed LLM judges to rank, filter, and revise proposals, yet these judges are routinely replaced by newer versions. We study whether such replacements preserve the underlying measurement standard. Using a preregistered, frozen-weight design, we evaluate three adjacent sa...
A coding agent works on repositories that can be far larger than its context window can hold. Prompt compressors and retrievers offer solutions to this problem, but patching an issue needs two things at once: the files that must change, and their code exactly as written, since the model must reproduce the lines it edit...
Xiaocong Yang, Rishit Chatterjee, Himanshu Udupi et al.· 0 citations
Expanding multilingual ASR systems to new languages is challenging when adaptation must preserve previously supported languages without replaying source-language training data. We study this problem in connector-based Speech LLMs, where a trainable connector maps speech representations into a frozen large language mode...
Yuchen Zhang, Haralambos Mouratidis, Ravi Shekhar· 0 citations
Selection bias in large language models (LLMs) can persist despite instructions to ignore presentation order or prompts that elicit reasoning. Recent efforts to reproduce Jev-style System One behavior have produced a growing family of models that predict probabilities directly over supplied candidates. Yet systematic c...
Ming-Yang Song, Mao Zheng, Zhi-Yuan Ma et al.· 0 citations
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) can generate multiple tokens in parallel, but often require many decoding rounds to complete a response. Efficient generation depends not only on which tokens are easy to predict, but also on how committing to them helps predict the remaining positions. A highly predictable token...
Deep research, or any use of large language models (LLMs) to read a large document collection and produce insights, requires synthesizing information from different sources. In this work, we find that LLMs produce long-form research reports that read as confident syntheses but which fail to accurately reflect the under...
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.
A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
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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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