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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

RubriX: A Fast, Fine-Tunable Non-Autoregressive Rubric Judge

Rubric-based evaluation asks which level of a rubric a response meets. It is usually done by prompting a large language model (LLM) as a judge, which needs a generative call per judgment and reads every level description, so its cost grows with the rubric. We present RubriX, a rubric judge whose architecture is inspire...

Balamurugan Paramasivam, Sudalai Rajkumar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Adaptive Retrieval, Selective Answers: Evaluating Conformal Factuality in Agentic RAG

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can improve factual grounding without guaranteeing that every generated claim is supported. Previous work has studied claim-level conformal factuality in single-stage RAG and, more recently, multi-hop RAG. We examine its behavior in agentic RAG, where a language-model policy adaptiv...

M. Rehman, Chi-Kuang Yeh · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Semantic Atoms for Scalable Text Analysis in Data Analytics in the Era of LLM-Based Agents

Much of the information needed for data analysis is buried in text columns: an analyst may infer customer frustration from complaint text and use it to explain resolution time. We call workloads in which processing text columns is central to subsequent data analysis TADA (\emph{Text Analysis in Data Analytics}). In an...

Jin-Xiang Xie, Zi-Hao Li, Rui Ding et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Text Is the Bottleneck: A Small-Scale Replication of LLM Game Playing in Riichi Mahjong

We replicate the riichi-mahjong track of "Can Large Language Models Master Complex Card Games?" (arXiv:2509.01328) under a drastically smaller budget: models of at most 2B parameters, one 16 GB consumer GPU, about five GPU-days. (1) With matched data and labels, text is the bottleneck: on the same 100k-decision trainin...

Mingge Xu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BehaviorMem: Building and Evaluating User Memory from Real-World E-Commerce Behavior Streams

User memory helps personalized systems build on their understanding of users over time. In e-commerce, users convey their preferences and needs through both explicit language and implicit interactions with products. We study memory built from logs of these interactions, examining how it can \emph{remember} concrete evi...

Sizhe Wang, Xinghao Fang, Rui Qiu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DynEdit: Dynamic Entropy-Guided Sequential Editing for Large Language Models

Knowledge editing aims to update outdated or incorrect knowledge in large language models without full retraining. Existing parameter-editing methods remain limited for long-sequence knowledge: single-point editors provide insufficient coverage for extended targets, while fixed chunk-based editors distribute editing ef...

Jin-Hu Fu, Yan Bai, Yihang Lou et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

From Belief Inference to Task Action: A Multi-Level Evaluation of Theory of Mind on Verifiable Tasks

Effective collaboration requires language models to understand what others know and believe, and to act accordingly. Models that assume others share their information may omit necessary communication and undermine coordination. Many theory-of-mind (ToM) benchmarks assess mental-state inference through story questions,...

Zhen-Shuai Yin, Yong-Xin Guo, Ming-Da Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DecisionTraceBench: Tracking Decision-Critical Information in Multi-Party Spoken Conversations

In high-stakes domains such as finance, critical information evolves through multi-party interaction. Recovering these changes and their sources is fundamental to reliable speech understanding. Existing speech benchmarks focus on transcription, local understanding, and turn-level state prediction, leaving joint decisio...

Wenchao Du, Fangxin Shang, Long Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

LADDER: Diagnosing Domain-Level Self-Assessment Under Noisy Feedback

Knowing when they are reliable is essential for language models to support human-AI collaboration. Yet interaction feedback is not always complete or correct, and may mislead models'understanding of their own capabilities. We introduce LADDER to study how language models assess themselves under unreliable feedback. Our...

Zhen-Shuai Yin, Jian-Shuai Liang, Xu-Yue Xiong et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

iPrefBench: A User-Centric Benchmark for Personalized Mobile Use Agents

An agent that truly knows and acts on behalf of its user has been a long-standing promise of AI assistants. Computer-use agents bring this promise within reach by capably executing fully specified tasks across apps. However, real-world user requests are often underspecified. To act correctly for the particular user, an...

Yuting Ning, Ruijia Cheng, Sushobhan Ghosh et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Heard Enough to Act: Early Tool Calling in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Latency-sensitive spoken agents must know not only which tool to call, but also when they have heard enough to act. Waiting for the turn to complete delays execution even when the request is already actionable. However, neither existing spoken agents nor spoken dialogue corpora define the earliest point at which a requ...

Yizhou Peng, Chen Chen, Donghang Wu 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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