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#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Language Specific Knowledge: Do Models Know Better in X than in English?

Often, multilingual language models are trained with the objective to map semantically similar content (in different languages) in the same latent space. In this paper, we show a nuance in this training objective, and find that by changing the language of the input query, we can improve the question answering ability o...

Ishika Agarwal, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-T\"ur · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Evaluation of OpenAI o1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI

This comprehensive study evaluates the performance of OpenAI's o1-preview large language model across a diverse array of complex reasoning tasks, spanning multiple domains, including computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, medicine, linguistics, and social sciences. Through rigorous testing, o1-preview demonst...

Tianyang Zhong, Zhengliang Liu, Yi Pan et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Multimodal Thinking with Renderable Programs

This work introduces SVGLM, a framework that uses scalable vector graphics (SVG) primitives to connect text and image in reasoning tasks, and exploits the duality of SVG as both image description and text instructions, yielding a more compact, interpretable solution to equip general VLMs with the capability of generati...

Sun-Li Chen, Ding Zhong, Ziqiao Ma et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

STRAND: Benchmarking and Improving Object-Centric Spatio-Temporal Monitoring in Video Large Language Models

STRAND is introduced, a benchmark of human-verified object-centric facts that evaluates intermediate reasoning by decomposing queries into sub-questions, distinguishing genuine temporal understanding from coincidental correctness and an object-centric framework that explicitly constructs and reasons over structured obj...

T. Nguyen, C. Trinh, Khoi M. Le et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

Free the Language Model From the Vision Encoder: Semantic Serialization as a Perception Interface for Small Language Models

An embodied scene question-answering (QA) interface in which vision never enters the language model is studied, showing the gain survives paraphrase, attributing it to decision-aligned computation rather than answer-string leakage, while novel judgment vocabularies bound its scope.

Cong Xu, Ravi Sankar · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

CodeGraph: Open-Taxonomy Knowledge Graph for Source Code with Wikidata Grounding

A pipeline for building an open-taxonomy semantic annotation of source code using a code-specialised Large Language Model, and a calibrated quality-assurance protocol that quantifies annotation precision by combining a small human gold set with an LLM-as-a-judge filter are presented.

Federico Pennino, Andrea Gurioli, Stefano Zacchiroli et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Accent Analogy Guidance: More Speaker Similarity at Equal Accent in Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning

This work proposes accent analogy guidance (AAG), a training-free sampler term that subtracts an accent direction estimated from the model's own predictions for one synthetic voice rendered in both languages, so the voice cancels and only the accent remains.

Yoomee Cho, Ji-Su Lee · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Learning New Words from Unlabeled Test Data in Automatic Speech Recognition

It is demonstrated that the CTC-weighted language model log likelihood ratio can be interpreted as the KLD between the unknown correct ASR and the unsupervised learned ASR, and that, using a Pinsker bound, the square root of KLD can be interpreted as an upper bound on the total variation distance between the true and e...

Meng-Qi Wang, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, Hao-Long Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Reward-Tilted On-Policy Distillation for Acoustic Grounding in Audio-Language Models

Experiments with silenced and replacement audio suggest that RT-OPD strengthens the student's reliance on acoustic evidence, and the 3B model achieves 72.72% accuracy on MMAU, the highest among the compared 3B models and competitive with several 7B and 8B models.

Kai-Yang Li, Shaobo Han, Yue Tian et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

BiMamba2 Masked Discrete-Unit Prediction for Multilingual Speech Representation for Unsupervised Speech in the Wild Challenge

A local-official discrepancy in metric scale and checkpoint ranking is analyzed, highlighting limitations of in-distribution diagnostics for predicting Dynabench probe outcomes and a local-official discrepancy in metric scale and checkpoint ranking is analyzed.

P. Subedi, Howard Prioleau, Saurav K. Aryal · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Small yet Assistive: Spatially-Aware Post-Training for Low Vision

Results show that BLV-focused post-training improves both accessibility-specific spatial grounding and general visual-text reasoning, and is substantially outperforms the baseline across various benchmarks.

Rishabh C. Choudhary, S. Raj, Umesh Goyal et al. · 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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