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
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...
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
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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Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable way to simulate survey respondents using demographic profiles and observed reference responses. However, the conventional approach of predicting one question per prompt repeatedly encodes the same context, limits each target to a narrow set of reference responses, and preve...
Yuan-Zi Li, Ling-Jie Wang, Zi-Hang Tian et al.· 0 citations
To enable bidirectional mapping between text and sign, SignFLIP adopts a symmetric architecture together with a stage-wise training strategy built on large-scale data, which shows competitive performance compared with task-specific models on both translation and generation tasks, as well as strong transferability to si...
Zhaoyi An, Si-Han Tan, Youngbae Hwang et al.· 0 citations
The swap readout is proposed, which reads each student checkpoint's feature activations on its own, measuring how training changes the student's use of each feature, even for checkpoints unseen by the crosscoder.
Zi-Chao Yu, Qian-Shuo Ye, Xu Wang et al.· 0 citations
The Distributional Answer Commitment Score (DACS) is proposed, a distributional confidence estimator that measures the entropy of the model's probability distribution over answer commitment at each reasoning step to capture how concentrated the model's answer belief is without requiring ground-truth answers or task-spe...
Zhao-Han Zhang, Jun-Jie Liu, Chengzhengxu Li et al.· 0 citations
Results show that self-evolving agents should place experience inside the control flow, rather than only store it as text, and show how learned conventions must reach the right execution step on long tool-use environments where learned conventions must reach the right execution step.
Yun-He Su, Zi-Yi Dong, Tong Yu et al.· 0 citations
It is argued that this process provides a statistical-learning account of how NLMs solve the compositionality problem in language, and the possibility that this statistical learning process provides an explanatory theory on how language cognition could emerge from pure distributional statistics.
Bo-Juan Wang, Chen Jun Jie, Holly E. Jenkins et al.· 0 citations
CPSE is introduced, a contract-preserving semantic extraction framework that jointly calibrates extraction prompts and field-level semantic descriptions from a few gold annotations that enables low-resource schema execution while preserving the output structure required downstream.
Zi-Xiao Dong, Wei Yang, Zi-Hao Liu et al.· 0 citations
Recent advances in bioacoustics have been driven by large-scale corpora and standardized benchmarks, yet existing resources are overwhelmingly bird-centric and shallow per species, limiting their use for studying the structure of a single species' communication system. This gap is particularly acute for cetaceans: desp...
Faadil Mustun, Chiara Semenzin, Roberto Dessi et al.· 0 citations
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.
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· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
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· news.mit.eduSep 24, 2026