A standardized evaluation framework for unstructured NLA explanations is introduced, measuring information recoverable from explanations, contextual support for their claims, and writing quality, and opening up a direction for improving activation-derived training to encourage more informative, supported, and readable...
Gert Lek, Zi-Xuan Xia, Pin-Yu Chen et al.· 0 citations
Context-aware dynamic trees allocate the speculative decoding budget according to draft path probabilities, adapting their depth and branching to the current context. Under stochastic decoding, however, we find that this structural advantage does not always compensate for the acceptance gains of random sampling paired...
This work attempts to make use of high-quality public documents with small perturbations and empirically finds that LLMs can successfully generate context-dependent reasoning traces and answers, which are then used to train a student model that substantially improves the performance on CL-bench.
Hao Wu, Yang Xiao, Yu-Song Sun et al.· 0 citations
This work proposes a masked diffusion language model, fine-tuning LLaDA-8B-Instruct with a class-conditional reconstruction objective using LoRA and requiring no architectural changes beyond the base model, which leads on average rank against discriminative baselines trained on stronger backbones across seven held-out...
Gert Lek, Abele Malan, Chao-Yi Zhu et al.· 0 citations
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On 434 expert-audited real LLM translations, SIV attains the top AUC, uniquely detects and grades expert-labeled major errors, and abstains, rather than mis-scoring, on out-of-vocabulary translations.
E-CONAN diagnostics dataset is introduced, a freely available dataset manually-annotated with coarse-grained and fine-grained categories based on the authors' proposed Arabic hierarchy, which helps NLU designers better understand their models by doing error analysis and in-depth investigation.
Khloud Al Jallad, Nada Ghneim, Ghaida Rebdawi· 0 citations
This paper compares two low-cost choices retrospectively -- a cost-reducing choice and a balanced choice -- with estimated grading cost reductions and average post-training score gaps of 1-3 points from the best evaluated training verifier, and establishes that verifier choices are interchangeable.
Andreas Lindhardt Plesner, Curtis G. Northcutt, F. Guzmán et al.· 0 citations
Using controlled corruption, this work decouple these two roles and finds a reversal: making a noisy token easier to predict reduces its damage as a target but increases it as context.
Su-Qin Yuan, Runqi Lin, Ke-Yu Lin et al.· 0 citations
BRISK-DLM is introduced, a framework that addresses both mismatches between how these tokens are predicted and how they ultimately contribute to generation by optimizing proposal learning and selection for verified progress.
Si-Wei Chen, Yu-Xiang Wan, Yi-Fan Yu et al.· 0 citations
NLPG is proposed, an external policy-memory method for improving a fixed agent without changing its model parameters or program structure that outperforms the strongest listed baseline for each benchmark by 8.71 percentage points on average.
Xu Liu, Wen-Zhang Wei, Jun Cao et al.· 0 citations
CHI (Composite Hallucination Index), the first unified hallucination metric that decomposes faithfulness errors into three orthogonal dimensions, provides practitioners with a decomposable, interpretable, and efficient faithfulness metric suitable for both offline evaluation and online monitoring of summarization syste...
Praveenkumar Katwe, R. Balabantaray, Kali Prasad Vittala· 0 citations
This work replaces true next-observation targets with in-distribution mismatched observations and introduces a setting that replaces prediction-based rewards with independent random signals, which expands task coverage even when the reward carries no environment information.
Xin-Yu Che, Hang Yan, Yan-Chen Liu et al.· 0 citations
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.
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· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
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· news.mit.eduSep 24, 2026