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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Ruby-ASR: Evidence-Preserving Supervision for Joint Orthographic and Lexical-Reading Recognition

Ruby-ASR is presented, which refines the conventional target into a span-bound orthographic--lexical-reading sequence and shows that refining the recognition target can improve lexical-reading recovery without sacrificing readable orthographic transcription.

Hao Shi, Yun Liu, Xue-Hao Yang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Can One Adapted Model Do It All? Fine-Tuning Strategy Selection for Customer Support LLMs

This work studies whether task-specialist models should be handled by separate task-specialist models or by a single model trained through multi-task training, sequential updates, or model merging, and concludes with practical guidelines for selecting fine-tuning strategies in real-world settings.

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Xue-Yong Fu, TN ShashiBhushan · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Distilling Sequential Computation in Transformer Language Models

A method for distilling sequential computation by replacing spans of input tokens with collapsed representations, computed on the fly by a lightweight merge module, allowing pretrained models to operate on compressed inputs without architectural changes or re-training.

Zi-Xuan Lan, Jessica H. Yang, Yan-Hong Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Meet, Compare, or Abstain: LatWeave for Deterministic Multi-Hop Question Answering on Knowledge Lattices

Probabilistic question-answering systems -- whether large language models (LLMs) themselves, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or trained multi-hop retrievers -- conflate"what is known"and"how to reason"into a single probabilistic computation: hallucination cannot be eradicated, evidence chains cannot be audited, a...

Yu Ren, Shao-Heng Fan, Tao Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LOCKR: A Hidden-State Trajectory-Guided Planner for Detecting and Repairing Stable-but-Wrong Lock-In in Diffusion Language Models

Hidden diffusion trajectories are established as actionable signals for selective test-time reasoning repair and LOCKR, a hidden-state trajectory-guided planner that decides when to allocate additional computation, expands a structured set of targeted repair branches, and selects the most promising continuation using t...

Guoshenghui Zhao, Tan Yu, Wei-Jie Zhao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Phonemizing User-Generated Text: A Benchmark, Taxonomy, and Compositional Approach

Text-to-speech systems increasingly process user-generated text (UGT) such as ppl and imo, whose pronunciation must be inferred from the canonical rather than surface form. We introduce UGTPhon, the first grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) benchmark for UGT in English, Vietnamese, and Korean, together with an inference-grounded...

Minju Jeon, Youngha Park, Han Sung Park et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LeakScale: Estimating the Causal Effect of Benchmark Exposure

Evidence that evaluation material entered training does not reveal how much it affected evaluation. This distinction leaves a contaminated benchmark score difficult to interpret: provenance can establish contact, but only a counterfactual can quantify the performance attributable to that contact. We present LeakScale,...

Divyansh Singh · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Count Evidence, Not Sentences: Tempered Evidence Fusion of LLM Judgments for Long-Text Value Measurement

Tempered Evidence Fusion (TEF) is proposed, a training-free rule that weights each sentence's log-odds by its normalized information gain, as derived from a generalized Bayesian posterior, making the fused score nearly vanish for uncertain sentences while preserving the Bayes-optimal weight of decisive evidence.

Yu-He Wu, Rui Qian, Guang-Yu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

What Changes When Fact-Verification Scores Improve? Evidence and Answer Accounting Across Trained Verifiers and LLMs

Post-hoc analyses quantify changes in answers and submitted evidence, and show when aggregate accuracy and evidence-coverage rates miss the claim-level pattern, as well as revealing changes that endpoint and aggregate metrics leave unresolved.

Han-Xiu Chen, Ying-Rui Li · 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.

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