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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Memory Construction: Rethinking Memory Access for LLM-based Conversational Agents

This work proposes Threader, a memory system that shifts the focus from memory construction to efficient, structure-aware access over raw interactions, and preserves them as first-class memory, organizes them into topic-coherent segments via lightweight incremental segmentation, and enables accurate retrieval through m...

Dong-Hua Cai, Yong-Heng Deng, Yi-Fei Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

CoLMbo-SV: A Grounded Language Model for Explainable Speaker Verification

CoLMbo-SV, a speaker language model that combines strong speaker discrimination with structured, acoustically grounded comparison reports, substantially advance audio-language speaker verification, bring its accuracy toward that of dedicated speaker encoders while adding checkable acoustic reporting, and establish an e...

Massa Baali, Sarthak Bisht, Zi-Yue Qiu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Turning Speech Language Models into Multilingual Listeners

MULTISPEECHQA, a large-scale, synthetically generated and human-verified dataset comprising 9200 hours of 10.8 million spoken question-answer pairs in 23 typologically diverse languages, is presented and shows that high-quality synthetic datasets offer a cheap solution to improving the multilingual capabilities of SLMs...

Tolúlopé Ògúnrèmí, D. Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Where Do Test-Time Scaling and Training Fall Short in Individual Stance Prediction?

Test-time scaling and post-training have improved LLM performance in coding and mathematical reasoning, but their effectiveness for individual stance prediction remains unclear. We study this question by predicting a person's stance in a new discussion from their history. We evaluate widely used test-time scaling strat...

Yuyang Zhao, Xuan Liu, HaoYang Shangm Haojian Jin · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Generalization Dynamics of LM Pre-training

This suite provides a new efficient lens on generalization: select intermediate pre-training checkpoints that strongly generalize reasoning and alignment, better than the final pre- or mid-training checkpoints, and select pre-training data that controls and stabilizes generalization dynamics.

Jia-Xin Wen, Zhengxuan Wu, D. Song et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Classifying Dominant Temporal Orientation without Pretrained Text Embeddings: A Novel Morphosyntactic Inventory Vector Approach

This work proposes an alternative approach for identifying a sentence's past, present, or future global reference interval by encoding sentences using fixed-length inventory vectors that are comprised of part-of-speech counts, dependency relation counts, and explicit futurate pattern counts.

J. Cleveland, Peter S. Bearman · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Pinned and Still Unstable: Within-Judge Verdict Variance and the Noise Floor of LLM-as-Judge Leaderboards

This work shows that LLM-as-Judge is operationalized on cloud serving infrastructure, not of any particular model family, and proposes a minimal, low-cost reporting protocol: several judge re-runs, published stability profiles and adjacency intervals, and results under at least two judges from different families.

Krishna Chytanya Ayyagari · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Linger and Lose: Knowledge Collapse in Low-Bit Language Models

This work measures knowledge capacity, the factual bits stored per parameter, on synthetic biographies with known information content and suggests judging low-precision training by retained capacity during training rather than final loss.

Prashanna Mani Paudel, S. Sheshappanavar · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Are You Sure You're Sure? Two Confounds in a Sycophancy Benchmark

An audit of SycEval, which reports that objections raised before a model answers (preemptive) cause more caving than those raised after (in-context), and attributes the gap to timing, and builds the missing comparison and tests it on multiple-choice questions and SycEval's own free-form pipeline.

Atharva Gupta, A. Jindal, Lavanya Nigam 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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