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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CoLink: Global Compression and Knowledge Linking for Multi-Turn Dialogue Modeling

Extracting salient information from long-horizon dialogue histories remains a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to the restricted context windows and efficient retrieval challenges. Current methods typically rely on history organization or local token-level optimization, suffering from informat...

Lian Yan, Zhenbo Xia, Haotian Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Factual Yet One-Sided: Stance Poisoning and Evidence Balancing in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The stance expressed in responses from retrieval-augmented generation systems is significantly influenced by the stance distribution of the retrieved materials. Existing research on knowledge poisoning has primarily targeted factual errors. In contrast, this study focuses on injection attacks in which the facts are cor...

Pu-Yuan Yang, Shao-Xuan Dong, Liu-Jie Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Transformer to GPT-5: Advancements, Limitations, and Future Directions in Large Language Model Design

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Artificial Intelligence (AI) by their extraordinary capabilities, like contextual understanding, few-shot/zero-shot learning, code generation, ability to reason and problem-solving. Recent studies have shown immense work on LLMs. Yet, there is limited work on the thoroug...

Harsidak Singh Banwait, C. Prabha · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Russian, a Brazilian, and a German Walk into a Bar, Ask the Same Question-- And Get Three Different Answers: Profiling LLM Perspective Diversity on Contested Topics

Large Language Models(LLMs) have shown strong performance on tasks with verifiable answers, but many real-world queries involve subjectivity, disagreement, and conflicting evidence. Most existing benchmarks for such queries remain English-centric, overlooking the vast diversity of perspectives held by users worldwide....

Wiem Ben Rim, Yao Lu, Pontus Stenetorp et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

$\Delta\tau$-Bench: Pushing Agents Toward a Moving Capability

In this paper, we introduce $\Delta\tau$-Bench, an executable agent benchmark that models the structural evolution of large tool ecosystems. In $\Delta\tau$-Bench, independently evolving services continually reshape how tasks can be accomplished: familiar tools may disappear or be replaced, while more efficient alterna...

Shuofei Qiao, Xuanguang Pan, Yijun Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Synthetic linguistic data

Synthetic linguistic data have become increasingly prominent in linguistic research, from the analysis of large collections of AI-generated texts to controlled experiments investigating grammatical and lexical preferences. This glossary entry extends Bresnan's (2016) distinction between the linguistic garden and the bu...

Giuseppe Samo · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Higher Reasoning Effort Improves Reference Verifiability and Changes Reasoning Summaries in GPT-5.5

Large language models are increasingly being used in different stages of scientific knowledge production, including the suggestion of references. These models can operate at different levels of reasoning effort and provide summaries of their reasoning processes. This raises two questions: Does increasing reasoning effo...

Melika Mobini, Andres Algaba, Vincent Ginis · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Write What Matters: Disentangling Token Selection from Slot Allocation in Recurrent Memory

Long-sequence models must retain earlier information. Full attention keeps all past tokens but grows expensive, and recurrent-memory models compress history into fixed slots for linear-time processing. Limited capacity makes writes consequential: distractors can interfere with useful content, while skipped evidence can...

Chen Chen, Rui Cheng · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Retrieval in the Long-Context Era: Training-Free Semantic Trees for Adaptive Context Construction

Long-context language models can increasingly process entire documents, making full-context prompting a practical alternative to passage retrieval. However, greater capacity determines how much information a model can receive, but not which information best supports a query. This distinction motivates rethinking retrie...

Zhe Xu, Tianhao Liao, Zhenqing Ling et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

T2D: Target-to-Draft Model Pruning & Adaptation for Efficient Speculative Decoding

Speculative decoding significantly accelerates autoregressive text generation in Large Language Models (LLMs), but its efficacy depends largely on two key factors: the distributional alignment between the draft and the target model, and the draft model's latency during inference. However, existing approaches typically...

Shahriar Kabir Nahin, Xiao Ye, Muhao Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The LALA Benchmark: Evaluating Literary and Linguistic Analysis in LLMs

We introduce the Literature and Linguistics Analysis Benchmark (LALA), comprising 236 open-ended questions written by experts in linguistics and literary studies, together with expert-provided ideal answers. By comparing models within families and at similar training scales using human and LLM judges, LALA identifies d...

Michael Foster, Barbara McGillivray, Gard B. Jenset et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Identically Trained Language Models Break on Different Jailbreaks

Jailbreak benchmarks test one checkpoint and treat which jailbreaks break it as a property of its pretraining data and safety training. We ask whether another pretraining run of the same data, given the same safety training, would break on the same jailbreaks. For each of 25 pretraining data recipes, we take 1B base mo...

Chi-Wei Chang, Mu-Tien Kuo, Kuan-Wei Lee 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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