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#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
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

On the Behavioral Traits of LLM Agents

This work proposes A-B-D to infer traits bottom-up from behavioral data (B-data), namely how agents act on their environment and communicate with users, as recorded in existing trajectories, and offers a new lens for understanding AI personality.

Hao-Kai Zhao, Jie Gao, Yunze Xiao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

C-HAT-Bench: Benchmarking Chinese AI-Text Detection Beyond Fully Generated Text

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly participate in writing by modifying or extending human drafts, causing machine involvement to vary in both form and extent. Yet most Machine-Generated Text (MGT) detectors are evaluated only on fully human-written versus fully AI-generated text. Because human--AI collaboration...

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

Focusing Condition: Inference-Time Self-Contrastive Steering Elicits Better Conditional Text Embeddings in LLMs

This work proposes an inference-time, plug-and-play Self-Contrastive Steering (SCS) method that constructs unconditional general text embeddings and uses them to refine conditional text embeddings, making them more focused on the target condition.

Zi-Feng Cheng, Ling-Yun Qian, Zhi-Wei Jiang et al. · 1 citation
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

From Knowing to Abstaining: Bridging the Representation-Action Gap in Vision-Language Models

Rep2Act, a representation-to-action alignment method that translates latent answerability awareness into explicit abstention decisions, is introduced, a representation-to-action alignment method that translates latent answerability awareness into explicit abstention decisions.

Jia-Luo He, Huang-Xun Chen · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

ExpVoyager: Direct Experience Navigation for Dynamic Agent Skill Synthesis

This paper proposes ExpVoyager, a novel framework in which a skill curator navigates raw experience across different views and resolutions, continually identifying reusable procedural knowledge from what it observes while tracking remaining knowledge needs that guide where to navigate next.

Kwangwook Seo, Dong-Ha Lee · 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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