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

IntentDelta: A Human-Constructed Benchmark for Evolving User Intent

Language-model agents must adapt as users revise their requirements and priorities during complex tasks. We introduce IntentDelta, a human-constructed multi-turn benchmark with 638 trajectories and 3,766 turns across WebShop and TravelPlanner. Each turn pairs a user utterance with a cumulative intention state and human...

Jieyu Zhou, Zijian Wang, Yun Wang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MTA-Zero: Self-Improving Multimodal Deep Search via Online QA-Solver Co-training

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have become strong visual reasoners, yet remain limited in open-world, multi-step search that requires grounding images, selecting tools, and integrating web evidence. Existing approaches typically construct and filter fixed offline corpora whose question distributions cannot ad...

Xiangyu Peng, Jiaxin Zhang, An Yan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

TriageRAG: Failure-Aware Self-Training for Adapting Retrieval-Augmented Language Models to Specialized Domains

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lets large language models (LLMs) answer knowledge-intensive questions from retrieved evidence, but adapting a general-purpose RAG system to a specialized domain such as medicine is difficult when only an unlabeled corpus is available. Self-training approaches such as SimRAG address...

Samarth Varshney, R. Yadav · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

StateWise: Teaching Language Models to Track and Obey Evolving Constraints in Multi-Turn Dialogue

Users of conversational assistants rarely state all requirements up front: they add constraints, amend them, withdraw them, digress, and return. Instruction-tuned LLMs fail here in two ways: active constraints stop being honored as turns accumulate (persistence failure), and withdrawn constraints keep being enacted (re...

Samarth Varshney, Ritu Yadav · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoleHear: Pseudo-Labeling for Semi-Supervised Role-Attributed Streaming Speech Recognition

Streaming automatic speech recognition transcribes at low latency but produces an unattributed word stream, while real-time applications such as customer-service analytics need each word tied to a speaker role. Role attribution is usually a separate stage, either an offline or streaming speaker-diarization model aligne...

Zefang Liu, Chenyang Zhu, Sangwoo Cho et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Refined Assessment for Translation Evaluation: Rethinking Machine Translation Evaluation in the Era of Human-Level Systems

As machine translation systems approach human-level quality, traditional evaluation methodologies struggle to detect subtle translation errors. We critically examine limitations in current gold-standard approaches (MQM and ESA), including inconsistencies from variable annotator expertise, excessive categorization compl...

Dmitry Popov, Vladislav Negodin, Ekaterina Enikeeva et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Prompts: A Systematic Study of LLM-Based Machine Translation Evaluators

LLM-based evaluators have rapidly become a standard tool for machine translation evaluation, yet the design choices that shape their behavior remain poorly understood. We present a systematic study of how instruction design, few-shot demonstrations, backbone model choice, and multi-step workflows affect span-level and...

Dmitry Popov, Roman Bokhyan, Ekaterina V. Enikeeva et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gender Associations in LLM-Mediated ADHD Self-Diagnosis

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for medical self-diagnosis. However, the way demographic cues shape outputs in these interactions remains poorly understood. This is particularly consequential for diagnoses like ADHD, where persistent gender disparities are not fully aligned with the clinical evidence...

Matilde Elene Hansen, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Embedding-Based Educational Taxonomies

Educational taxonomies organize educational content, such as exercise problems, into concepts, which are also called skills or knowledge components. These taxonomies define learning objectives in educational applications such as intelligent tutoring systems. Developed through human expertise and iterative refinement, t...

Kia Karbasi, Kaveh Karbasi, Gregory Pottie · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

RSI Arena: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement with Human Feedback

Can AI agents autonomously train useful language models and improve them using feedback from users? We introduce RSI Arena, a two-stage study of autonomous post-training as a step toward recursive self-improvement. Ten frontier models act as training agents, each starting from NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base...

Yue Huang, Yan-Bo Wang, Li-Chi Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mycelium: A Meta-Study of Hallucination Detection Across Provenance, Typology, and Granularities

Hallucination detection is increasingly important for evaluating and deploying large language models. However, existing methods are often compared across benchmarks that define and measure hallucination in substantially different ways, making reported scores difficult to interpret across settings. We study hallucinatio...

Julia Belikova, Elisei Rykov · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Words Are the Voice of the Mind: Depression Severity Estimation from Social Traces via Mental-Guided Evidence Reasoning

Depression severity estimation is crucial for mental health assessment and intervention, yet traditional approaches depend on clinical interviews or self-report questionnaires that require users' active participation. With the widespread use of online social media, users leave rich social traces that may reflect their...

Nada Xu, Xueqin Chen, Qiang Gao 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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