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

When the Weakest Language Keeps Moving: ARMOR-DP for Multilingual BabyLM

Multilingual BabyLM systems usually fix language sampling proportions even though the weakest language can change during training. We present ARMOR-DP, a modular framework that diagnoses imbalance arising from representation, exposure, capacity, and objective pressure, and uses per-language validation loss to update sa...

Hanyu Liao, Yijing Chen, Tao Ji · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Trajectory2Gym: Decision-Grounded Compositional Interaction Synthesis for Tool-Use Agents

Successful tool-use trajectories are not necessarily useful supervision. Even successful interactions may underrepresent multi-step dependencies or contain actions that are unjustified by the information visible to the agent at decision time. We identify two coupled requirements for effective trajectory supervision: co...

Yihao Hu, Zhihao Wen, Yitong Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SEDATE: Do Large Language Models Share an Aggression Circuit Across Languages?

This work proposes Selective Detection And Targeted Editing (SEDATE), a training-free approach based on detect-edit-verify strategy that achieves substantially superior safety scores across all languages and models over the best-performing baseline while retaining the general capabilities and incurring negligible overh...

Sagnik Basu, Sayan Das, Somnath Banerjee et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

One Model, Two Paths: Balancing Single-Pass and Looped Performance in Language Models

Repeating Transformer layers can improve language-model performance without adding parameters. A pretrained model can be adapted to support both single-pass and looped inference by reusing middle-layer weights for additional computation. Because both paths share weights, training to improve looped predictions can degra...

Jiarun Shen, Lei Zhao, Xiao Li · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Eat Your Precision: Precision Objective Mitigates Reward Hacking in Rubric-based RL

Rubric-based rewards enable effective reinforcement learning on non-verifiable tasks. However, because these rewards are typically defined as a weighted measure of rubric coverage, models are trained primarily to maximize a recall objective. As a result, RL-trained models produce responses that are more complete but al...

Hyun Ryu, Jong-Heon Kim, Yi-Qing Xie et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Towards a Learnable Retriever for Textual Graph Question Answering

Textual graph question answering (GraphQA) and graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) have gained increasing attention as a way to ground large language models (LLMs) on structured knowledge. Despite extensive efforts, existing methods still face two key gaps. The first is an architectural gap: existing...

Kai-Feng Jin, Yu-Chen Yan, Zhichen Zeng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Five Architectures, One Shared Space Cross-Model Representational Alignment Without Weight Merging

Combining language models is usually done by averaging weights, which works only when the models share a common starting point. We ask whether five frozen, independently trained models with different internal designs (four transformers from four organizations and one state-space model) can be related through their acti...

Oladimeji Anthonio, Dimeji Olawuyi, Oloruntoba Ajayi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Small Edits, Shifting Decisions: Benchmarking LLM Accuracy and Reliability on French Input Variants

French users may omit apostrophes and diacritics or make keyboard typos in everyday input. The effects of these common variations on language model performance and prediction reliability remain insufficiently understood. To address this gap, we construct a controlled French surface-variant benchmark covering seven task...

Jiaming Yu, Xiaotian Xie, Jian Ma et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Incremental Predictive Value of LLM Tutoring Interactions for Student Performance

We evaluate whether semester-level interaction features from a large language model tutor improve assignment-score prediction beyond constant baselines. StudyChat provides 16,851 student-assistant exchanges from two offerings of an undergraduate artificial intelligence course, with outcomes matched to 175 of 203 studen...

Zeyu Dong, Mikael Kwame Kuada, Asa Holley Buchakjian-Tweedy et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Propasafe-Hybrid: A Text-Based Hybrid Propaganda Detection Tool

Propagandistic content increasingly circulates through online news and social media, where readers often encounter it with limited scrutiny, highlighting the need for reliable and fine-grained detection. This paper introduces Propasafe-Hybrid, a sentence-level system that integrates a fine-tuned transformer classifier...

Thomas Kimmeth, Avijit Roy, Vivek Sharma · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive Transfer of Representational Signatures for LLM Reliability Detection

Large language models (LLMs) are reported to be susceptible to reliability issues including hallucinations and reasoning errors. Existing quality detectors can predict unreliable outputs based on internal representations with decent accuracies. However, training these detectors often requires substantial domain-specifi...

Yongtong Li, Yixuan Florence Wu, Jiawei Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Quantifying Meaning with SCAPE-T: Semantic Complexity from Encoder-Only Transformer Attention

Automated semantic complexity estimation remains underexplored in NLP, despite important applications in linguistics and interpretability. This paper defines semantic complexity as the code length required to uniquely specify a text's semantic meaning, and operationalises it via SCAPE-T, an attention-derived metric bas...

Maxim Khovansky, Lev Mukhanov · 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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