On-policy self-distillation enables post-training foundation models without relying on stronger external teachers. However, existing approaches rely on ground-truth question-answer pairs, human-curated problem sets, or other supervised signals. In this work, we reformulate on-policy self-distillation as a self-training...
Leon Sick, Lukas Hoyer, Yannick Str\"umpler et al.· 0 citations
The rapid expansion of scientific literature far outpaces the speed of manual curation, creating a fundamental bottleneck in extracting structured knowledge from scientific texts. To address this, we introduce an agentic, ontology-guided framework for knowledge graph (KG) construction. Our framework utilizes specialize...
A. Acharya, Qi Zhang, E. Dragut et al.· 0 citations
This paper examines speech characteristics of the Austrian National Council members (CMs). We introduce analysis methodology based on a fine-tuned BERT-Model which assigns to every speech a probability distribution over Austrian parties. These are then aggregated at the speaker and party level. We perform an extensive...
Sarah Sulollari, Vanja Karan, Benjamin Roth· 0 citations
Pre-consultation medical dialogues are essential for collecting comprehensive patient information, but are costly to obtain at scale due to privacy and ethical constraints. Existing LLM-based synthesis methods often rely on prompt engineering or rigid rules, limiting their ability to balance clinical relevance with rea...
Qiyuan Li, Xiaomei Guo, Chao Gao et al.· 0 citations
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Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly improved Visual Question Answering (VQA) performance, yet their reasoning over structured content such as tables remains inconsistent, often plagued by spatial misalignment and logical hallucinations. Existing approaches for improving table VQA typical...
Humans efficiently process multimodal streams spanning hours to years, building persistent, fine-grained spatiotemporal memories that support reasoning about and predicting long-horizon events. In contrast, existing benchmarks focus on short- and medium-context tasks, and most foundation models struggle to preserve fin...
Yanhao Jia, Yi Zhu, Yiran Zhong et al.· 0 citations
Negation occurs in every language, yet its surface realization differs drastically. Despite this, multilingual large language models (LLMs) translate negation robustly, raising the question of whether they share an underlying representation of negation across languages. We study this question in six open models across...
Giang Son Nguyen, Wray Buntine, Dung D. Le et al.· 0 citations
Multi-head attention retrieves and combines context representations through query--key interactions and value aggregation, with head dimension constraining the per-head representation space. In long-context processing, it remains unclear whether allocating a fixed parameter budget to fewer, wider heads improves informa...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread adoption in various natural language processing tasks, but suffer from hallucination issues where they generate unfaithful or inconsistent content. While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has shown promising applications in reasoning tasks, its app...
Jia-Wei Dong, Zi-Long Bai, Peng-Tian Zhu et al.· 0 citations
Large language model agents that use tools could take on part of the electronic health record and desk work that occupies physicians' time, but in many hospitals the medical information systems run inside closed networks, so the model and the agent harness must also be inside the network. We designed, implemented, and...
Ken Enda, Jien Saito, Masami Mukai et al.· 0 citations
One approach to accelerating progress on AI alignment is to automate parts of alignment research itself. Doing so requires systems that can perform reliably on hard-to-supervise research tasks, including identifying flaws in research proposals and evaluating whether a proposed experiment supports its intended claim. To...
Soroush Ebadian, Parand A. Alamdari, Joe Benton et al.· 0 citations
Chain-of-thought (CoT) generation offers an opportunity to intervene before a reasoning model completes its answer. But does the point at which risk is easiest to detect also offer the most effective control? We study this question with REACT, a conditional activation intervention that learns a safety direction from pa...
Hanwen Zhang, Enyi Jiang, Ruike Zhu 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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