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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LANTERN: Illuminating Hidden Mathematical Knowledge in Language Models

Language models can now prove theorems, but people still decide which problems to pursue. We ask whether a model's internal representations can help identify promising mathematical connections. We develop LANTERN, a fast, cost-efficient pipeline that uses a classifier over pretrained-model activations to rank candidate...

Pavel Tikhonov, Elena Tutubalina, I. Oseledets et al. · 0 citations

Solving Every Step Is Not Enough: Milestone Oracles Reveal a Composition Gap in LLM Math Reasoning

Large language models (LLMs) can solve every intermediate step of a multi-step math problem on its own and still fail the full problem, even when given a roadmap of the steps and all of their answers. We introduce OracleLadder, a diagnostic evaluation that locates where LLM math reasoning fails by giving the model incr...

Zhuo-Han Wang, Hao-Ran Ma, Tian-Yu Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

KinyaMed: Seeds, Not Rows -- What a Corpus Requirement Written in the Wrong Unit Fails to Constrain

Triage decides who is seen first. Building an urgency classifier for patient-voice Kinyarwanda, we found our specification could be met without producing anything it was meant to secure. We report that, and the instruments that detect it, instead of a classifier. Designed for the four languages a Rwandan health centre...

Marius Bayizere · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

A model of rational interlocutors: Unification of comprehension and production

Who we communicate with influences both our interpretation of their utterances and the design of our own. Such adjustment to the conversational partner is studied as speaker modeling in comprehension and as audience design in production, with the two literatures having developed largely separately. We argue that both a...

Han-Lin Wu, Zhen-Guang G. Cai · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Generalization and Memorization along the Learning Trajectory of Neural Language Models: A Geometric Account of Categorization

This work finds that continuous regions of representation space not occupied by observed tokens become systematically structured from the earliest stages of learning, forming category-level geometric organization that supports generalization to unattested combinations.

Bo-Juan Wang, Holly E. Jenkins, E. Wonnacott · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

ScopeIF: Improving Scope-Aware Precise Instruction-Following in Large Language Models via Graded Reward Modeling

This work proposes ScopeIF, a novel training framework for scope-aware precise instruction-following that enables optimized Qwen3-4B and 8B models to rival or surpass strong frontier models such as Gemini-2.5-Pro and DeepSeek-V3.2, establishing an effective paradigm for advancing scope-aware instruction-following.

Bo-Si Wen, Yi-Lin Niu, Xia Ning et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Using LMs to Model the Effects of Context and Coreference during Sentence Comprehension

This work systematically vary the context window size of GPT-2 across four large-scale naturalistic English reading-time datasets and observes a U-shaped relationship, demonstrating that tracking long-range coreference relations is one important factor for the alignment between LM surprisal and human reading behavior.

Kohei Kajikawa, Lin Ai, Tatsuki Kuribayashi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

mu-bench: A Multilingual Utterance Transcription Benchmark

Voice agents depend on accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) to act on what callers say, yet ASR is evaluated on read, English-centric speech with word error rate (WER), which penalizes surface rather than semantic differences. We introduce mu-bench, a dataset of 4,270 caller utterances from 250 phone calls to an...

Andrea S. Li, Soham Ray · 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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