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

Reader Proficiency Shapes Layer-wise Surprisal Profiles

Reading behaviour varies not only with linguistic input, but also with reader proficiency. In this study, we investigate whether the layer-wise relationship between surprisal from large language models (LLMs) and human gaze behaviour differs across readers with different levels of proficiency and across gaze measures....

Akio Hayakawa, Horacio Saggion · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Corpus-Guided Dual-Path Propagation for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation supports multi-hop retrieval by organizing corpus information into graphs. However, existing relation-free graph retrieval methods rely primarily on query-sentence similarity to search for evidence. This can exclude useful bridging evidence with low query similarity and activa...

Ba-Xian Liu, Tong Wei · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Co-Linguistics: AI-augmented Theory Construction in Linguistics

LLMs have been studied in recent linguistics as potential models of humans'linguistic abilities. Here we discuss an entirely different use of AI, namely as a co-scientist, to help construct and assess linguistic theories (we refer to the result as"Co-Linguistics"). Since the 1960s, linguistics has developed theories th...

E. Chemla, B. Spector, Alexandros Kalomoiros et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Devils in Question Relay: Source-Conditioned Relay Steering to Mitigate Hallucinations in Audio-visual Large Language Models

Audio-visual large language models (AVLLMs) have made remarkable progress in multimodal understanding and reasoning through interactions among visual, auditory, and linguistic information. However, recent studies show that AVLLMs face a critical challenge: $\textbf{source-confused grounding hallucination}$, where cues...

Yu Zhang, Pingrui Zhang, Xuefeng Bai et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Orthogonal Yet Coupled: Decoupling Geometric Components for Model Merging

Merging pretrained models has emerged as an effective approach for consolidating diverse capabilities into a single unified model. However, prevailing merging methods typically treat each task vector as an indivisible merging unit, overlooking the heterogeneous geometric changes encoded within it. This treatment can in...

Zijing Wang, Yongkang Liu, Mingyang Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

RunyaNER: Auxiliary Language Selection for Runyankore NER

Cross-lingual zero-shot transfer and multilingual fine-tuning are promising approaches for NLP tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER) in low-resource languages, but in the absence of target language benchmarks, it is unclear which auxiliary language selection strategy leads to the best transfer. We introduce Runy...

Prosper Arineitwe Asiimwe, Francois Meyer, Jan Buys · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

E-MoE: Enhanced Mixture-of-Experts for Non-Factorized Diffusion Language Models

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate sequences by progressively unmasking several tokens per denoising step, but their reverse process is typically factorized over positions, limiting sample quality in the few-step regime where diffusion's speed advantage over autoregressive decoding matters most. A recent line of w...

Arseny Ivanov, A. Kolesov, Alexander Korotin et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Who Warmed the Archives? LLMs Overestimate Historical Warmth

Historical archives are an under-used source for extending the instrumental climate record backward in time, and LLMs offer a way to extract the indices climatologists derive by hand. Beyond measuring how well systems extract this signal, we check whether their errors are safe to use for cross-century comparison, since...

Claudiu Creanga, Liviu P. Dinu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access May 2026

The Rashomon Wikipedia: A Data-Perspectivist Analysis of Divergent Historical Narratives

Wikipedia aims to provide a unified, neutral record of history, yet its independent language editions often function as distinct epistemic communities, creating divergent narratives around contested events. This paper investigates cross-lingual historiographical bias by analyzing Wikipedia articles across five language...

Claudiu Creanga, Liviu P. Dinu, Anca P. Dinu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Larry Caused the Car to Stop, But the Model Didn't Notice: Transformer Blindness to the M-Heuristic

Modern transformer models excel at capturing semantic relationships through sentence embeddings, yet their ability to perform pragmatic reasoning remains understudied. This paper investigates whether encoder-based transformers such as DeBERTa employ the M-Heuristic (the neo-Gricean principle that marked linguistic form...

Stefania Butnaru, Claudiu Creanga · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Look What You Made Us Cluster: Hate Narrative Extraction from Reddit Discourse

Narrative extraction allows us to identify online hate narratives, supporting the construction of rigorous detection systems. Existing computational approaches, however, are limited in precision as they rely on semantic representations, which tend to capture only surface-level meaning. To detect more precise and interp...

Annabelle K. L. Chua, Forster J. Khoo, Joel C. R. Tan et al. · 0 citations

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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.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Sep 24, 2026

Estimating suicide risk from text

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

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