Understanding how Large Language Models (LLMs) encode linguistic structures remains a fundamental challenge in interpretability research. While diagnostic classifiers (or"probes") are widely used for this task, they face significant methodological criticism: training auxiliary classifiers introduces capacity confounds...
Lexical borrowings are words from one language that are introduced into another language. Identifying lexical borrowings in text is a relevant task for data-centric fields in Linguistics such as lexicography or corpus linguistics, but none of the standard libraries for text processing offers such a functionality. In th...
End-to-end event extraction remains challenging for large language models as it requires simultaneous identification of event triggers, classification of event types, and extraction of schema-grounded argument spans. We present EAGER, a reinforcement learning framework for generative event extraction that combines fine...
Some documents that embedding-based topic models initially classify as noise later become founding members of emerging topics. At publication time, however, they appear as scattered points in embedding space and are difficult to distinguish from ordinary noise without the benefit of hindsight. We study whether such ant...
Bangla, the seventh most spoken language in the world, remains under-resourced for neural text-to-speech. Public Bangla speech corpora are dominated by short read-prompt utterances collected for speech recognition, leaving long-form prosody and consistent single-speaker narration uncovered. We present BanglaKontho, a s...
This work evaluates LLM politeness judgments using two English-language datasets with complementary annotation formats, finding that inter-model agreement is stronger than model--human agreement.
COILD, an Indic-centric parallel corpus comprising over 1.16 million human-translated and human-verified sentence pairs, covers 20 Indian language pairs across the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Austro-Asiatic language families, and provides a valuable training and evaluation resource for advancing multiling...
Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Nitin Kumar Mishra, P. Dutta et al.· 0 citations
This paper investigates how script knowledge is distributed across the layers of LLMs using two complementary interpretability methods: logistic regression probing and logit-lens analysis, which show that script commitment consistently occurs at the very last layers of the LLMs.
David Kletz, Sandra Mitrovic, Itay Sabato et al.· 0 citations
It is shown that single-snapshot fairness audits on full-precision models do not capture the deployment-time burden that compression places on already-marginalized speakers, and cast the temporal-taxation construct of Choi and Choi (2025) as a quantitative metric.
Srishti Ginjala, E. Fosler-Lussier, Christopher W. Myers et al.· 0 citations
PTC-Bias is proposed, a two-stage framework based on phoneme-level temporal competition that reduces near-homophone and word-segmentation errors while preserving correct transcriptions and shows consistent gains across two SpeechLLMs and bias lists of up to 2000 words.
Zhi-Qi Ai, Han Cheng, Shi-Yi Mu et al.· 0 citations
It is argued that current safety fine-tuning constraints the strategic action space of these LLMs, making them unable to fully engage in naturalistic interactions within domains where character contestation is a normative expectation rather than a mere fallacy.
Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzyńska, Jarosław A. Chudziak· Frontiers in Artificial Inte...· 0 citations
News headlines frame public issues both by what they select and by how they word it, yet computational framing work typically collapses these operations into a single score. We introduce a two-dimensional framework that separates salience framing, measured through four wording devices (loaded vocabulary, blame attribut...
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