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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

The Answer-Basin Representation Hypothesis: We Are Not Probing or Steering Concepts

Linear probing and activation steering use linear directions to predict and control behavior-level concepts such as correctness, safety, and social bias in question answering. We call these \emph{behavior-level concept directions}. Drawing on the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH) and circuit studies, these directi...

Man-Jiang Yu, Hong-Ji Li, Zi-Han Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

MSI-Bench: Evaluating Multi-Speaker Voice Interaction for Collaborative AI Agents

Voice provides a natural and immediate interface for AI agents. Many settings in which voice agents could be useful, including meetings, households, and collaborative work, are inherently multi-speaker. Supporting these settings introduces challenges that are largely absent from one-on-one interaction. We introduce the...

Chenxu Xiong, Dong-Ming Shen, Yu-Zhi Tang et al. · 4 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When Quantization Preserves Accuracy but Not Evidence: Explanation-Aware Post-Training Quantization for Medical LLMs

The objective is to preserve the full-precision model's answer-supporting behavior rather than improve gold-label accuracy, and the method better preserves the full-precision model's answer behavior and rationale-to-answer support.

Yeji Kim, Mi-Young Kim, Randy Goebel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Adapting Tree-Structured Speculative Decoding to DeepSeek-V4 for Efficient Inference

This work integrates tree-structured speculative decoding into the DeepSeek-V4-Flash pipeline via branch-aware causal verification, temporary state isolation, and accepted-path state refresh, keeping verification and compressed-state updates consistent across branches.

Chang-Xu Liu, Zhao-Geng Li · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Assessing Readability with LLMs: The Role of Reasoning and Few-Shot Prompting

A systematic benchmark of diverse open-source LLMs for multilingual readability assessment is conducted, focusing on the prediction of discrete readability levels required by educational frameworks, to establish the viability of out-of-the-box LLMs as robust, cross-lingual readability assessors.

Raphaël Thieffry, Matej Martinc · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Toward a Unified Mathematics of Concepts

An operation-based view that evaluates mathematical frameworks by the conceptual operations they support is proposed, identifying thirteen operations (including similarity, composition, generalization, and grounding) that recur across cognition, psychology, and AI.

Sha-Ni Chen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

QLoRA Fine-Tuning of Ministral LLM for Sequence-to-Function Protein Annotation

QLoRA-fine-tuned compact LLMs can generate curator-style annotations with genuine biological value for a substantial subset of proteins, and is concluded that QLoRA-fine-tuned compact LLMs can generate curator-style annotations with genuine biological value for a substantial subset of proteins.

Demian Pavlyshenko, B. Pavlyshenko · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LLJ Cards: Best practices for the Use of LLMs as Judges

LLJ Cards is introduced, a framework that synthesizes best practices from measurement theory, natural language generation, and machine learning literature into practical guidelines for LLJ-based evaluations and provides a structured framework for applying these principles in the design and reporting of automated evalua...

Khaoula Chehbouni, Melina Medjdoub, Florian Carichon et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

End-to-end Jordanian dialect speech-to-text self-supervised learning framework

Speech-to-text engines are extremely needed nowadays for different applications, representing an essential enabler in human-robot interaction. Still, some languages suffer from the lack of labeled speech data, especially in the Arabic dialects or any low-resource languages. The need for a self-supervised training proce...

Ali A. Safieh, Ibrahim Abu Alhaol, Rawan Ghnemat · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

URA-NER: A Unified Retrieval-Augmented Framework with Retrieval Alignment and Uncertainty Reduction for Low-Resource NER

A novel unified retrieval-augmented framework, URA-NER, including three key components: Progressive Granularity Retrieval, Model-aware Representation Enhancement, and Reason-aware Knowledge Verification is proposed, including three key components: Progressive Granularity Retrieval, Model-aware Representation Enhancemen...

Jing-Yu Wang, Shijie Wu, Fu-Sheng Jin · 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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