This paper reviews Cobweb, a computational account of categorization and concept formation, then proposes an extended theory that incorporates chunks and their acquisition, and presents \trellis/, an implementation of this theory, and illustrates its application to learning context-free grammars.
This paper conducts a large-scale study of multimodal design choices for misinformation detection with over 3,375 experiments, distill practical guidance on which design choices help, when do they fail silently, and what aspects of the pipeline most strongly shape model behavior.
This work provides a practical framework for accelerating the development of conversational recommendation agents in industry, addressing challenges that are becoming increasingly central to recommender systems and agentic applications as natural-language interfaces reach widespread adoption.
Enrico Palumbo, Alexandre Tamborrino, Victor Ode et al.· Proceedings of the 20th ACM...· 0 citations
Identifying an unfamiliar sign is difficult when a learner remembers its movement but does not know its meaning or formal feature codes. SignTrace addresses this longstanding reverse-lookup problem through natural-language access to a Chinese sign-language dictionary. The system integrates LLM-based dictionary enrichme...
Zeng-Ji Tu, Xing-Ye Zhu, Ning-Jing Wang et al.· 0 citations
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Scientific presentations are more than summaries of research papers. They need to present the work in a coherent sequence, explain the main ideas clearly, and help the audience follow the presentation. We present SlideLab, a training-free multi-agent framework for generating scientific presentations from research paper...
Cartograph is complementary to code-execution approaches: it controls which tool descriptions are surfaced and records the provenance of the descriptions used for ranking for each query, which controls which tool descriptions are surfaced and records the provenance of the descriptions used for ranking for each query.
J. O. Agyemang, Michael Agyare, K. Agyekum et al.· 0 citations
This survey reviews fake review detection from an information fusion perspective, covering 211 studies published from 2018 to early 2026, and identifies open problems in adversarial generation, cross-domain transfer, uncertainty-aware fusion, missing-source robustness, interpretability, and trustworthy evaluation for A...
Fanji Yang, Huiyao Chen, Xi Yu et al.· Information Fusion· 0 citations
This work studies which neurons in a frozen BERT-base-uncased encoder support AI-text detection, using the RAID benchmark across six generators spanning pure-base and instruction-tuned models.
Self-supervised confidence fine-tuning makes reasoning more efficient, reducing generated tokens by up to 25\% at matched accuracy across Gemma, Qwen, Nemotron, and GPT-OSS models on mathematical, scientific, and coding reasoning benchmarks, with efficiency gains comparable to methods that explicitly optimize for short...
Parsa Hosseini, Akasha Tigalappanavara, Sumit Nawathe et al.· 0 citations
Whether an information extraction pipeline should process page images or parsed text depends on the document, and the answer flips across the layout spectrum. We study this trade-off under a constraint that rules out (closed) cloud services: privacy-sensitive documents processed on-premise by small ($\le 8\mathrm{B}$ p...
Christoph Walser, Mauricio Fadel Argerich, Jonathan Furst· 0 citations
Researchers increasingly use generative large language models (LLMs) to convert corporate text into empirical variables. We examine the extent to which LLM-based textual measures are invariant to model choice using thirteen measures, including sentiment, management clarity, uncertainty, answer specificity, and climate...
LAVOIR (Laya with Value-Of-Information Routing), which places the candidate pieces of missing information (slots) in the input next to the answer options, so that one forward pass returns both the decision distribution and, for every slot, the expected gain in the probability of the correct decision if the user were as...
Furkan Yilmaz, Habibe Aleyna Tasdemir, Muhammed Faruk Gozay· 1 citation
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