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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Simple Diffusion Language Models Are More Effective Few-Step Generators Than Reported

Diffusion language models (DLMs) promise fast parallel generation, yet high-quality samples often require large number of refinement steps, which diminishes their advantage in practice. This has led to massive interest in and rapid development of new methods for effective few-step generation. We show that much of the s...

H. Amin, Ming Yin, Rajiv Khanna · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Faster Block-Diffusion Serving with Distribution-Free Risk Guarantees

Redline is a finite-sample procedure that selects operating points, hand-picked or learned, from the correctness of their answers on calibration prompts, and keeps the reference-relative risk, the joint probability that the reference answers correctly and a candidate configuration does not, within a user-chosen budget...

Jungseob Lee, D. Lee, Chanjun Park et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Controlling Speaking Rate in Autoregressive TTS via Activation Steering

Autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems synthesize natural speech but, once trained, offer little control over speaking rate. We show that speaking rate can be steered at inference time, without retraining, by clamping a single decoder block's activation along a discovered speed axis. A decoder-block analysis recov...

Francesco Verdini, Antonis Asonitis, Aref Farhadipour et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Tokens Change, Structure Endures: Spectral Watermarking for Generated Speech

Redwing is proposed, a design principle for robust token-level watermarking that generalizes to TTS models at a speech-quality cost close to that of KGW and shows that retokenization is not merely a source of noise: its transition structure can be exploited as a design principle for robust token-level watermarking.

Kanghwi Lee, Kyeongseok Jeong, Jeongmin Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Positions Are Not Facts: The Mismatch Between KV Caches and Memory

This work identifies what must be preserved beyond the replaced value when using a KV cache as updatable memory and recovers distinctions missed by fixed cache similarities on synthetic record pairs.

Chang-Hai Zhou, Yu-Hua Zhou, Shi-Yang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Identifying Temporal Features within Transcoders for Time Sensitive Factual Recall

This work identifies three node categories (common temporal, common to the year, and chrono-semantic) which interact to generate a temporal filter during factual recall and provides the first feature-level map of temporal recall by isolating individual MLP features via transcoder circuit tracing.

Sanjay Govindan, Yang Song, M. Pagnucco · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

The Key Handoff: Retrieval in Hybrid Language Models

Across twelve models, dense and hybrid, the authors move a hidden state from one story into another where the two routes lead to different places, and read off which place the model gives, which makes the answer a handoff.

Kaan Kale, Oğuzhan Başer, Sriram Vishwanath · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

USAI-Quant: A Quantitative Reasoning Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Built Environments

The USAI-Quant benchmark is developed, the first benchmark designed to quantitatively evaluate VLM's reasoning capabilities on built environment metrics via remote sensing imagery, and reveals that current state-of-the-art models consistently fall short on numeric reasoning tasks.

Dong-Dong Wang, Q. Song, Yu-Zhou Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Sep 2026

OpenTumorBoard: A Real-World Benchmark of Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Discussion Trajectories

OpenTumorBoard is introduced, a benchmark with 611 patient cases and 19,157 discussion turns across ten specialist roles, transcribed from 12,534 minutes of publicly available tumor board recordings on YouTube, and automated curation pipeline is released to support the development and evaluation of LLMs for multidiscip...

An-Qi Li, Zhi-Xuan Ge, Yi-Xuan Duan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

KV-Lingo: Learning KV-Cache Translators with Distillation

KV-Lingo can be used for seamless model switching, staying close to re-prefill across repeated switches in the authors' multi-turn evaluations, and is found particularly useful for dynamic model routing.

Valérie Castin, Keitaro Sakamoto, A. Filippova et al. · 1 citation

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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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