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#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Monocultural Biases: Correlated biases in large language models lead to unequal systemic exclusion rates in hiring

Employers are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to automate their hiring process. This paper investigates the risk of monocultural biases, in which the widespread deployment of large language models homogenizes biases across the labor market, leading to greater systemic exclusion for certain demographic g...

Matthew Bone, Fabian Stephany, Maria del Rio-Chanona · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

MechaTerp-TRACE: A Novel Approach for Component Ablation Analysis in Language Models

It is found that the components carrying the most effect are the same few, positionally fixed components in every model, regardless of which entity a prompt asks about, and that once these are removed, the remaining support is close to evenly spread in eleven of the thirteen models.

B. Colelough, Davis Bartels, Madeline Bittner et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Is Imagination Derived from Hallucination? A Cross-Taxonomy Evaluation of Imagination and Hallucination in Large Language Models

This paper proposes Whiteboard, the first LLM imagination evaluation benchmark, and investigates whether imagination derives from the same generative tendency as hallucination and what key factors shape it.

Zi-Xuan Tang, Hong-Zong Li, Shu-Xin Zhuang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Read-Best Is Not Steer-Best: A Probing--Steering Layer Dissociation in Omni-Modal Large Language Models

Results show that probing accuracy is a poor heuristic for selecting intervention layers and suggest a cross-architecture mid-to-late selection criterion, and identify a cross-modal emotion subspace organized by valence and arousal.

Yi-Bo Wang, Ji-Sheng Dang, Bi-Mei Wang et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1

Observational Equivalence of LLM and Human Annotation

It is argued that the central challenge of text annotation is no longer choosing between human and machine coders, but developing coding rules that minimize ambiguity and accounting for the ambiguity that remains, and it is proposed using disagreement across LLMs to identify difficult cases and refine codebooks.

Kentaro Nakamura, Jing-Ling Tan, George Yean · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Beyond Accuracy and Surface Fluency: Risk-Sensitive Evaluation of LLMs for Legal Clause Generation

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to draft contractual language, yet conventional accuracy or preference-based evaluations are poorly matched to legal drafting. A clause may be fluent and stylistically polished while still omitting an essential carve-out, allocating risk in an unenforceable way, assumi...

Devansh Singh, Sundaraparipurnan Narayanan · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Type-Driven Tokenization for Brahmic Scripts

Standard tokenizers used in large language models produce malformed text when applied to Brahmic scripts. They are a family of abugidas, writing systems whose consonants carry an inherent vowel that dependent marks can modify. They include Devanagari, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and others. The underlying issue is that the...

S. Kapila, Rakshika Bagavathy · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

An Empirical Cost Attribution of Context-Compression Gateways in Multi-Turn Coding Agents

This work instrument a production compression gateway between coding agents and frontier LLMs, and decompose the token bill of real sessions into three independent levers: tool-schema filtering, content compression of file reads and tool output, and history summarization, which distill the results into an actionable re...

Lu Chen, Jiayu Shi · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Privacy Personalization Trade offs in LLMs: The Impact of Stylometric Signal Reduction on User-Specific Text Generation

A controlled framework to isolate stylometric signals in LLM personalization using the LaMP-7 Twitter benchmark is introduced and shows that outputs conditioned on original profiles are nearly indistinguishable from human-authored ground truth, indicating that modern LLMs can closely reproduce an author's writing style...

Muhammed Nazmul Arefin, O. Hammad · 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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