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Who Is Left of Whom? Tracing Spatial Evidence and Role Binding in Relative-Position Reasoning

High instance-level accuracy can mask inconsistencies in spatial reasoning when objects exchange positions or their roles are reversed in the query. The internal representations supporting relative-position reasoning remain poorly understood. We investigate two complementary components of this process: tracking object...

Yingjin Song, Denis Paperno, Albert Gatt · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

AraDynFact: Dynamic Evaluation of Factual Knowledge in Arabic

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to scale both in size and capabilities, their proficiency in the Arabic Language has seen significant advancement. However, a critical gap remains: the extent of their factual knowledge and cultural sensitivity to the diverse Arabic-speaking world remains largely underexplored....

Ignacio Iacobacci, Faroq Al-Tam, Zhao-Zhi Qian et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

TRACE: Single-Pass Decoding-Trace Risk Localization for Generation Calibration

TRACE is proposed, a single-pass, decoded-answer-preserving confidence estimator that treats decoding-time uncertainty as a trajectory through three steps: recording token-level surprisal and predictive entropy during decoding, applying local risk operators to preserve uncertainty spikes, and converting localized trace...

Yue-Bin Xu, Xue-Mei Peng, Jun-Lan Chen et al. · 0 citations

Deep Learning Methods in Neuroscience: From Modeling Molecular Mechanisms to Classifying States of Consciousness

Diverse methods of machine and computational modeling have demonstrated their effectiveness in tasks of automatic clustering and classification of brain states, the development of multilevel models and the identification of connectivity patterns correlated with levels of consciousness.

E. Benderskaya, A. Alifanova, Svetlana Batalova et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

From Input to Output: A Flexible Agent for Dual-End Interpretation of Sparse Autoencoder Features

Functional interpretation is introduced, which characterizes an SAE feature as a mapping from its activating input semantics to its output effects under intervention, and Dual-End Agentic Feature Interpretation (DAFI) is presented, an agent that actively gathers evidence and refines input-side, output-side, and functio...

De-Wen Liu, Zi-Xu Li, Jonathan Pan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

MemoReason: Evaluating the Effect of Parametric Memory on Contextual Reasoning in LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on reasoning benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether this reflects genuine contextual reasoning or reliance on facts memorized in their parameters. We investigate this by distinguishing two possibilities: a broad \textit{memorization bias}, where familiar content improves re...

Zineddine Tighidet, A. Mogini, Jia-Li Mei et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Epistemic Policy Divergence in Multi-Turn LLM Contamination: A Protocol-Gradient Investigation

Large language models treat conversation history as unverified context, so false premises injected into earlier turns can be adopted as fact later, a failure mode we call session-level contamination. We introduce five contamination protocols along a source-authority gradient, each holding the false premise constant whi...

Fahrell Giovanny, Geby Bayuningtyas, Sahrul Mukharom et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Decide, Don't Generate: Competitive Dimensional ABSA with Jev's Typed Decisions

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has largely turned to text generation. We show that competitive dimensional ABSA does not need it. Using Jev, a frozen model that answers typed questions with rubric scores, label probabilities, and yes/no judgments, we decompose all three tasks of SemEval-2026 Task III Track A in...

Yi-Qun Zhang, Pei-Dong Wang, Zi-Han Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Measuring Collapse and Correction in Homogeneous-Panel LLM Debate

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) debate is often evaluated by whether final answers improve, but movement is not necessarily improvement: the same discussion can rescue an initially wrong majority or destroy an initially correct one. Standard final-accuracy evaluations conflate these opposing mechanisms. We intro...

Xin Li, Meng-Bing Liu, Chau Yuen · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

When Words Speak Louder than Images: Towards Understanding Language Bias in Vision-Language Models

Despite substantial progress across downstream applications, vision-language models (VLMs) remain susceptible to language bias, often prioritizing linguistic cues over visual evidence and consequently producing incorrect predictions. Prior studies have proposed various approaches to understanding and mitigating languag...

Yi-Zhou Fang, Si-Yu Chen, Zi-Mo Qi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Rubric-Aware On-Policy Self-Distillation for LLM Personalization

GRASP is a rubric-aware on-policy self-distillation framework for LLM personalization that turns user-specific rubric aspects into fine-grained, token-level supervision, and Rubric-based Teacher Validation (RTV) is introduced, which retains only instances where the teacher sufficiently covers the target aspects, improv...

Yilun Qiu, Xiao-Yan Zhao, Cheng-Bing Wang et al. · 0 citations

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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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