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Word Similarity Datasets for Indian Languages: Annotation and Baseline Systems

With the advent of word representations, word similarity tasks are becoming increasing popular as an evaluation metric for the quality of the representations. In this paper, we present manually annotated monolingual word similarity datasets of six Indian languages - Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Gujarati. T...

Syed S. Akhtar, Arihant Gupta, Avijit Vajpayee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

RewardExplainer: Learning Reward Model Explanations from Counterfactual Preference Feedback

This work proposes RewardExplainer, a framework that obtains feedback from the target reward model through counterfactual rewriting and uses this feedback to further optimize the explainer, enabling the explainer to more faithfully capture the target RM's scoring preferences and sensitive behaviors than single-pass gen...

Jing-Yi He, Ni-Er Wu, Shuang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

High-Level Text Preprocessing for Semantic Similarity Analysis of Discursive Texts: A Framework and Empirical Demonstration

High-level text preprocessing is introduced: a systematic, rule-based intervention applied before the standard preprocessing pipeline to isolate each document's actual claim from its discursive structure and introduces the semantic diffusion index (SDI), a per-document metric for assessing the semantic reorientation be...

M. M. Albayrakoğlu, M. N. Aydin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Simple Diffusion Language Models Are More Effective Few-Step Generators Than Reported

Diffusion language models (DLMs) promise fast parallel generation, yet high-quality samples often require large number of refinement steps, which diminishes their advantage in practice. This has led to massive interest in and rapid development of new methods for effective few-step generation. We show that much of the s...

H. Amin, Ming Yin, Rajiv Khanna · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Faster Block-Diffusion Serving with Distribution-Free Risk Guarantees

Redline is a finite-sample procedure that selects operating points, hand-picked or learned, from the correctness of their answers on calibration prompts, and keeps the reference-relative risk, the joint probability that the reference answers correctly and a candidate configuration does not, within a user-chosen budget...

Jungseob Lee, D. Lee, Chanjun Park et al. · 2 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Controlling Speaking Rate in Autoregressive TTS via Activation Steering

Autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems synthesize natural speech but, once trained, offer little control over speaking rate. We show that speaking rate can be steered at inference time, without retraining, by clamping a single decoder block's activation along a discovered speed axis. A decoder-block analysis recov...

Francesco Verdini, Antonis Asonitis, Aref Farhadipour et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Tokens Change, Structure Endures: Spectral Watermarking for Generated Speech

Redwing is proposed, a design principle for robust token-level watermarking that generalizes to TTS models at a speech-quality cost close to that of KGW and shows that retokenization is not merely a source of noise: its transition structure can be exploited as a design principle for robust token-level watermarking.

Kanghwi Lee, Kyeongseok Jeong, Jeongmin Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Positions Are Not Facts: The Mismatch Between KV Caches and Memory

This work identifies what must be preserved beyond the replaced value when using a KV cache as updatable memory and recovers distinctions missed by fixed cache similarities on synthetic record pairs.

Chang-Hai Zhou, Yu-Hua Zhou, Shi-Yang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Identifying Temporal Features within Transcoders for Time Sensitive Factual Recall

This work identifies three node categories (common temporal, common to the year, and chrono-semantic) which interact to generate a temporal filter during factual recall and provides the first feature-level map of temporal recall by isolating individual MLP features via transcoder circuit tracing.

Sanjay Govindan, Yang Song, M. Pagnucco · 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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