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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Closed-Loop Dual-Reference Guidance for Accent Control in Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning

Zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning often carries the reference speaker's accent into the target language. We propose closed-loop dual-reference guidance, which pairs the original reference with a reusable native anchor constructed by voice conversion (VC). The references initialize separate language-model (LM) state...

Yuan-Zhong Zheng, Wei Huang, Min-Hua Ma et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Disclosure Begets Disclosure: A Self-Reinforcing Privacy Loop in LLM Agents with Persistent Memory

This work asks how consulting memory during dialogue changes what users go on to say, and thus what the memory comes to reveal, and across four support models, memory raises response quality but also empirical leakage, the share of attribute values correctly inferred from the record, by a margin that widens over sessio...

Masahiro Kaneko, Hiromi Arai, Timothy Baldwin · 0 citations

Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models

Across three visual tasks, it is shown that pathway selection is task-dependent, and that data distribution and prompt design can also modulate which pathway is used to solve the image-based query.

Israfel Salazar, Stella Frank, Dan Oneata et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1

Markovian Generation Chains in Large Language Models

This paper defines this iterative inference process as Markovian generation chains, where each step takes a specific prompt template and the previous output as input, without including any prior data.

Mingmeng Geng, Amr Mohamed, Guo-Kan Shang et al. · 3 citations

GFlowPO: Generative Flow Network as a Language Model Prompt Optimizer

This work proposes GFlowPO, a probabilistic prompt optimization framework that casts prompt search as a posterior inference problem over latent prompts regularized by a meta-prompted reference-LM prior and consistently outperforms recent discrete prompt optimization baselines.

Junmo Cho, Suhan Kim, Sangjune An et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FLAWS: A Benchmark for Error Identification and Localization in Scientific Papers

The identification and localization of errors is a core task in peer review, yet the exponential growth of scientific output has made it increasingly difficult for human reviewers to reliably detect errors given the limited pool of experts. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked interest in their...

Sarina Xi, Vishisht Rao, Justin Payan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2025

ShIOEnv: A Command Evaluation Environment for Grammar-Constrained Synthesis and Execution Behavior Modeling

This work introduces ShIOEnv, a Gymnasium-compatible Bash environment for synthesizing execution-annotated shell input traces and introduces grammar-constrained synthesis to generate syntactically valid arguments with high input irreducibility, which is estimated through self-ablative contrasts of execution artifacts.

Jarrod Ragsdale, R. Boppana · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Poisoning-Based Backdoors Are Not Cryptographic

Defending against a backdoor requires recovering the verifier that decides whether an input is a trigger, since blocking individual triggers fails against an attacker who can generate new ones. If a verifier could be installed with the asymmetry of cryptographic authentication, where only the attacker can produce trigg...

Masahiro Kaneko · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring, Localizing, and Reducing the AI-Like Writing Style of Post-Trained LLMs

Post-trained language models often exhibit a recognizable AI-like writing style, yet its connection to post-training and internal representations remains poorly understood. In this work, we study whether post-training introduces or amplifies AI-like stylistic regularities and whether these regularities have a localized...

Aniket Anand, Janvijay Singh, Zhewei Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2026

When Should LLMs Reason? Adaptive Inference Routing via Entropy Dynamics

The proposed EDRM (Entropy Dynamics-based Reasoning Manifold), a lightweight routing framework whose default heuristic requires no router training, supports selective reasoning based on early decoding signals and demonstrates the potential of entropy-based control for efficient LLM inference.

Wei Xia, Haoqing Wang, Zhi-Hong Deng et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Graph Memory Transformer (GMT)

We investigate whether an explicit learned memory graph can replace the Feed-Forward Network (FFN) sublayer in a decoder-only transformer while preserving the surrounding autoregressive architecture. In the proposed graph Memory Transformer (GMT), a memory cell routes token representations over a learned bank of centro...

Nicola Zanarini, Niccol\`o Ferrari, Evelina Lamma · 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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