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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Knowledge Pull Requests for Continual Document Authoring

We introduce Knowledge Pull Requests (KPRs), a framework for continual document authoring that makes each change interpretable. Documents require ongoing revision as new knowledge surfaces from other sources, languages, or times, but existing approaches either edit with no account of what knowledge changed or regenerat...

Alexander Martin, Benjamin Van Durme · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

PERSONAWEAVER: Controllable Diversity Beyond Conventional Archetypes in Procedural Character Generation

PersonaWeaver is introduced, which disentangles world building from behavioral specification and models behavior through setting general, diverse, manually curated banks of moral positions and conversational reactions and allows us to test how far LLM(s) can be pushed beyond their default behavioral patterns across set...

Maan Qraitem, Kate Saenko, Bryan A. Plummer · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Nov 2025

Semantic knowledge abstraction: Consistent reasoning in large language models for natural language inference

A methodological framework for constructing new semantic knowledge at a higher level of abstraction is proposed under the notions of semantic compatibility and incompatibility for NLI, which will enable the development of more robust agents and interpretable reasoning, guiding AI toward reliable language understanding.

David Torres-Moreno, J. Hermosillo-Valadez · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A retrospective analysis on the use of LLMs to study infant syntax learning

Large language models (LLMs) have increasingly been used to investigate how children acquire syntax at an early stage of development. This is notably the central scientific goal of the BabyLM challenge, a community-wide effort to develop models that achieve human-level syntactic performance while being trained on devel...

H\'elie Bazin (SCAI, SND, ISIR) et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Transcribe, Translate, and Optimize: Joint Reward Learning for Speech Translation

In LLM-based speech translation, transcription-based chain-of-thought (CoT) suffers from a mismatch between reference transcripts used in supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and model-generated transcripts at inference. To address this, we propose joint recognition and translation fine-tuning via group relative policy optimiz...

Yang-He Dong, Wan-Ting Huang, Wei-Ran Wang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Calibration as a First-Class Criterion in LLM Evaluation

It is argued that each NLP subfield should pair its main performance metric with a calibration score and call for treating calibration as an essential property of every model rather than a niche topic.

Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Katharina von der Wense · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introduce long silent intervals under the serial"think-then-speak"paradigm, disrupting real-time spoken interaction. To address this issue, we propose an asynchronous think-al...

Junyi Ao, Kainan Peng, Mingbo Ma et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

How to Estimate Whether You Have Found Several Needles in a Haystack: Measuring Calibration in Multi-Label Text Classification

A key factor in deciding whether to trust an automatic prediction is its confidence score, which should be calibrated to match the actual probability of the prediction being correct. Most confidence calibration metrics target binary or multi-class tasks, while multi-label calibration remains largely underexplored. Mult...

Sophie Henning, Georg Hofmann, Alexander Schulte et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Combining Hierarchical Cognitive Process with Process Supervision for Interpretable Scene Safety Understanding

This work constructs a hierarchical cognitive safety structure, which motivates the development of a novel, high-quality scene safety understanding dataset based on multi-step reasoning with process labels, and introduces a modular and flexible process supervision framework that reflects the hierarchical nature of huma...

Zhi-Yun Jiang, Han-Yong Wang, Binbin Liang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Layout-Guided Masking for GROBID: Lightweight Structural Gains in Large-Scale Scientific PDF Ingestion

This extension to GROBID, a modular font-stream parser running on CPU, is the de-facto standard for structuring scientific articles and underpins several of the largest open scholarly corpora and has the best paragraph precision on both corpora, the best section detection on Materials Science, and a character error rat...

Luca Foppiano, S. Khamassi, Vipul Gupta · 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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