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SlopBench: How Well Can We Rank Language Models by Slop? A Multi-Domain Benchmark of Repetitive AI Writing

SlopBench asks which models produce the stiff, repetitive prose readers call AI slop, a question detectors leave open once they have classified a text as machine-written. We evaluated eighteen models on 112 hand-written tasks in email, social posts, essays, and workplace chat, sampling each model on each task up to ten...

Dhruv Roongta, Harsha Gaddipati, An-Nghiep Huynh · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

NSV-Shift: A Contrastive Benchmark for Non-Speech Vocalization Understanding and Response Adaptation in Speech-to-Speech Models

This work introduces NSV-Shift, a contrastive benchmark for evaluating whether speech-to-speech models can understand non-speech vocalizations (NSVs) and adapt their responses accordingly, and evaluates five models on NSV perception, emotion understanding, and response adaptation.

Zi-Wei Chen · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LLMs learn different forms of metacognition when trained to predict their own accuracy

This work investigates how large language models acquire metacognitive monitoring, the ability to know what one knows, by training 10 open-weight LLMs to predict their own accuracy on factual multiple-choice questions before answering them and finds that trained confidence reflects two distinct signals.

Nicolas Yax, Stefano Palminteri, P. Oudeyer · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

In-Context Adaptation of Encoder-Decoder Models in Speech Recognition

This work studies two forms of demonstration, collated and interleaved demonstration, across six encoder-decoder models, spanning conventional cross-attention-based and LLM-based architectures and suggests that in-context adaptation for ASR is not unique to specific architectures, training, or demonstration approaches.

Yen Meng, Sharon Goldwater, Hao Tang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LA-CPD: Local-Evidence-Aware Change-Point Detection for Human-LLM Authorship Segmentation

LA-CPD is proposed, a structured method that transforms noisy sentence-level score sequences into coherent authorship segments and outperforms WCP+AIC, increasing sentence-level accuracy from 0.747 to 0.796 while improving boundary localization and LLM-span delineation.

Qing Yang, Zhen-Yun Mao, Zi-Xiang Luo et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

The Effects of Incremental Instruction Delivery on Language-Model Creative Writing

Large language models are increasingly used as interactive writing tools, where users develop stories, revise ideas, and introduce new requirements across multiple turns rather than specifying a complete brief upfront. Yet most evidence on multi-turn instruction degradation comes from tasks with objectively verifiable...

Anshuman Singh, Abrar Eyasir, Haseeb Yaqoob et al. · 0 citations

Yor\`{u}b\'{a} in Unicode: An Overview of a Problem

This paper identifies Unicode's NFC normalization stability policy as the structural constraint that prevents a straightforward fix, arguing for direct intervention of the Consortium in solving the active problem, and proposing a formal encoding request for the four core Yor\`ub\'a characters as the most durable path t...

Kólá Túbosún · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Shared Experience, Separate Learning: Companion Confidence Calibration for LLMs

CoCal is introduced, which trains a lightweight companion from rollout hidden states and verifier-derived correctness supervision while leaving task optimization unchanged, and shows that CoCal improves confidence estimation without sacrificing task performance, outperforming both RL-based concurrent methods and matche...

Shi-Yu Ni, Ke-Ping Bi, Jia-Feng Guo et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 22, 2026

Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

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.

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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