Long-running assistants often interpret follow-up requests whose referents, constraints, and active goals were established many turns earlier. The central challenge is therefore not only context length, but retrieval intent: a current query such as ``use the previous configuration'' may omit the project, entity, and ve...
Qingsen Ma, Dianyun Wang, Jiahong Liu et al.· 0 citations
Chest computed tomography (CT) reports generated by large language models (LLMs) can describe positive findings that lack localized evidence in the scan. We propose EviGround-CT to verify these findings after report generation. A deterministic extractor identifies positive finding sentences, and a 3D grounding model pr...
Speaking-style captioning (SSC) aims to generate natural language descriptions of how speech is delivered, capturing paralinguistic attributes such as vocal timbre, prosody, and expressivity. Many downstream applications, including conversational AI agents, controllable speech generation, and large-scale audio annotati...
Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Ashwyn Sharma, Liang Lu et al.· 0 citations
Next-token prediction (NTP) rewards only the token that occurs next, penalizing every alternative. But natural language often offers many ways to express the same meaning. We introduce Conceptizer, a training framework that extends next-token prediction with a reward for meaning. Conceptizer uses a fixed, model-agnosti...
Haoran Zheng, Chen Shani· 0 citations
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If your brain were connected directly to someone else's, would you still know which thoughts were yours? We build a functional version with two copies of one language model: each holds a private rule and code word, and one copy, the receiver, also attends to its partner's internal memory. The receiver took its partner'...
Scholarly Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) support literature search, scientific discovery, and agent-assisted research. Yet, most approaches to SKG construction pre-specify the knowledge unit to be represented, typically named scholarly entities or contribution-level statements, and retain only the publication content expressi...
N. Pathirage, Henrique M. Dinis Santos, Deborah L. McGuinness· 1 citation
Multilingual tokenizers trained on English-dominated corpora often over-segment Indic languages, resulting in longer token sequences and increased tokenization disparity across scripts. We present AdaptTok-Indic, an Indic-specialized extension of adaptive tokenization that combines Unicode-normalized preprocessing with...
Llama-3, Qwen3 and many other open LLMs pre-tokenize text with a regular expression whose word class admits only Unicode letters. Devanagari vowel signs are combining marks, so this regex splits Nepali words at every vowel sign, and models that use it spend 2.6 to 5.8 times as many tokens on Nepali as on the same Engli...
Long-term memory enables large language model (LLM) agents to maintain personalized and temporally coherent interactions, but repeated LLM inference for memory admission, extraction, and organization introduces substantial cost and latency. We present SLICE-Mem, a lightweight memory framework that combines salience-gui...
Xiao-Bin Chen, Dian Jin, Lin Shu et al.· 0 citations
A negotiation assistant can reach a good deal without accurately predicting the other person's response. We ask whether evaluations of social world models test that prediction directly. We audit 113 works published from 1999 to 2026. 9 primary evaluations measure a real person's response to an action selected by the sy...
Denglin Jiang (New York University), Annie Wang (New York University)· 0 citations
Large Language Model (LLM) agents with tool use exhibit inconsistent behavior across independent runs from identical states, calling different tools, producing contradictory outputs, or pursuing divergent strategies. This variability compounds over time and undermines deployment reliability. Existing evaluation metrics...
Harshavardhan Abichandani, Penny Chong, Atin Ghosh et al.· 0 citations
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) enable flexible generation through iterative masked denoising, but incur substantial inference cost because token representations are repeatedly recomputed across denoising steps. Existing cache-based methods reduce this cost by reusing intermediate results across denoising steps...
Yukai Jin, Zhankai Ye, Jiayue Yang et al.· 0 citations
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.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
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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