Language models advise people, keep them company, and write software while they sleep. Measuring what they do is hard: behavior has to be sampled repeatedly across models, prompts and releases, most of it lives in unstructured text that has to be coded before it can be counted, and the result has to be legible and rigo...
This work studies whether a carefully domain-adapted retrieval-augmented generation pipeline closes the gap between compact and compact model quality in financial institutions under dense, frequently amended rulebooks.
Tobias Deußer, Abhishek Pillai, A. Bariviera et al.· 0 citations
Three of the strongest pipelines succeed on different questions, and an oracle that picks the best pipeline per question gains roughly thirteen points over the best single pipeline, though evidence-type routing recovers almost none of it.
K. E. Ak, Jay Mohta, Gwang Lee et al.· 0 citations
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as synthetic survey respondents to estimate population response distributions. In cross-cultural survey simulation, evaluations should assess not only distributional fidelity within countries but also whether differences across countries are preserved. However, existin...
Ye-Rin Chae, Ye-On-Ee Choi, Seunghyun Lee et al.· 0 citations
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The proposed sequence labeling scheme enables the use of a shared architecture that learns the syntactic structures from both grammatical structures simultaneously and hence improves generalization.
While Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on highly non-linear components, in this work we demonstrate that they exhibit fundamental linearity: when inputs from distinct text streams are linearly combined, the model outputs a superposition of the individual next-token distributions. We term this the \textit{Superposition...
Pavel Tikhonov, Anton Korznikov, Matvey Mikhalchuk et al.· 0 citations
An end-to-end study of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for adolescent health communication in three Ghanaian languages, validated through KasaHealth, a live voice-first ASRH application deployed in all three languages, complemented by Senti-Check, a technical evaluation harness.
Stephen E. Moore, Akwasi Asare, Mich-Seth Owusu et al.· 0 citations
TimeBraid, a series of unified time-series and language models that align pretrained language models and pretrained time-series foundation models through interleaved global residual attention layers, remains competitive with far larger general-purpose models and task-specific counterparts.
Xin-Yue Wang, Jia-Cheng Pang, Kun Zhou et al.· 0 citations
PPTBench establishes a measurable testbed for studying visual coding and advancing agents toward more reliable visual creation, and shows that agents can generally produce valid slide files, but struggle to produce high-quality reconstructions that faithfully recover the semantics and visual structure of the target.
Xiao-Qiu Wang, Yi-Zhe Chi, Wen-Yi Li et al.· 0 citations
Verified search, in which a language model proposes programs, a hard evaluator scores them, and selection keeps the best, has recently moved mathematical records; controlled ablations of the proposer-side components remain rare. We instrument a minimal FunSearch-style loop at office scale (a 30B local model on a laptop...
While TTLab's system localizes error spans effectively, classification of rare error types remains challenging, highlighting the need for data augmentation for tail categories.
Ali Abusaleh, Bhuvanesh Verma, Alexander Mehler· 1 citation
An exploratory, single-seed ablation of TALH (Adaptive Latent Hybrid), a decoder-only language model with parallel Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and a custom recurrent state-space (SSM) branch supports implementation-specific hypotheses rather than general conclusions about MLA, SSMs, or mixture-of-experts models.
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