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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Grounding Memory Summarization in Utility Intent

This work proposes MemSuit, a self-distillation framework in which a teacher summarizer, conditioned on observed query-answer pairs, produces utility-aware memory entries that a student learns to reproduce from the raw conversation alone, confirming the value of grounding memory in downstream utility.

Zhen-Yu Lei, Ming-Jia Shi, Xing-Bo Fu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Dense Is Not Enough: Hierarchical Supervision Allocation for Long-Horizon On-Policy Distillation

This work forms long-horizon OPD as hierarchical supervision allocation as well as a coarse-to-fine framework that organizes supervision through Locate, Validate, and Refine and suggests that effective long-horizon distillation requires teaching at the right depth, the right decision, and the right token.

Yu-Hao Sun, Bin-Rui Wu, Zhuo-Er Xu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models

It is shown that strengthening the model's ability to discriminate languages during pretraining reduces and, on some measures, closes this multilingual gap on continuous phonetic and higher-level linguistic measures, while preserving substantial cross-language sharing.

Maureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi, Zakaria Aldeneh · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

CertMark: Distortion-Free Multi-Bit Watermarking with Certified Decoding

Leading multi-bit watermarking methods for language models encode messages by biasing the model's next-token probabilities, creating a trade-off between message recovery and text quality. Their decoders typically return the highest-scoring candidate from accumulated token-level evidence, without a certified abstention...

Pawel Batorski, P. Spurek, Paul Swoboda · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

BaatCheet: A Multilingual Corpus for Dialogue Translation in Indian Languages

BatCheet is introduced, a multilingual dialogue corpus named after the Hindi term for conversation or chitchat, containing approximately 49,000 dialogues for dialogue translation across five translation directions and fine-tuning five open-source LLMs yields substantial gains over zero- and few-shot baselines.

Priyanka Dasari, Yuvrajsinh Bodana, V. Mujadia et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Calibration, Not Answer Selection: Distilling Internal Confidence in Reasoning Models

Reinforcement learning with binary correctness rewards trains correctness, not calibrated confidence. The confidence that reasoning models verbalize is systematically overconfident, and the problem is not merely one of scale: verbalized confidence tracks how willing a model is to commit to an answer, not how likely the...

Ya-Dong Xi, Rong-Sheng Zhang, Tang-Jie Lv et al. · 0 citations
#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

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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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