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#machine learning Conference Oct 2025

Find Your Optimal Teacher: Personalized Data Synthesis via Router-Guided Multi-Teacher Distillation

PerSyn (Personalized data Synthesis), a novel synthesis strategy that operates under a new ``Route then Generate''paradigm to create data tailored to each student model, enabling it to learn more effectively, is proposed.

Hengyuan Zhang, Shi-Ping Yang, Xiao Liang et al. · 21 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ESLM: Risk-Averse Selective Language Modeling for Efficient Pretraining

Large language model pretraining is compute-intensive, yet many tokens contribute marginally to learning, resulting in inefficiency. We introduce Efficient Selective Language Modeling (ESLM), a risk-aware algorithm that improves training efficiency and distributional robustness by performing online token-level batch se...

Melis Ilayda Bal, Volkan Cevher, Michael Muehlebach · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference Feb 2025

Logits are All We Need to Adapt Closed Models

A token-level probability reweighting framework that, given access to logits and a small amount of task-specific data, can effectively steer black-box LLMs toward application-specific content generation and advocates for broader access to token logits in closed-source models.

G. Hiranandani, Hao-Lun Wu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee et al. · 7 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

onPanda: Efficient Annotation of On-Policy Alignment Data for LLMs and Agents via Token-Level Correction

We present onPanda, an interactive tool for efficiently annotating LLM alignment data and agent trajectories. onPanda adopts token-level correction as its core interaction: while reading a model response, the annotator locates the first inappropriate token and either picks a substitute from the model's candidate tokens...

Lei Yang, Meng-Yin Liu, Jia Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

OSWorld-Pro: Process-based Evaluation for Computer Use Agents

Evaluation of Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) is often limited to the final deliverables they create (at the end of hundreds of steps) and assessed with functional verifiers, as seen in OSWorld. However, such evaluation of end-state performance lacks transparency into how and why agents fail in various tasks, obfuscating cr...

Zhi-Lin Wang, Shao-Kun Zhang, Yi-Fan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TAC-Time: Texts as Channels For Multimodal Time Series Forecasting

TAC-Time is proposed, a unified framework that transforms textual information into additional temporal channels that preserves temporal continuity and periodic structures while remaining efficient and scalable and identifies predictive textual signals whose correlation-aware alignment yields partial forecasting improve...

Jiang-Yi Liang, Xiaotian Gu, Xin-Yue Xie et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

Data Agents: Agentic Data Systems

This work proposes a new paradigm called the Data Agent, designed to manage, process, and analyze data with minimal human intervention, and develops two specialized agents: the data analytics agent and the data science agent.

Guo-Liang Li, Pei-Yao Zhou, Xuan-He Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

STEVE: Stabilizing Textual Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization via Error-Driven Refinement and Regularized Verification

STEVE, a stabilization framework with two coupled mechanisms that reduces degradation and produces more robust prompts, provides a practical way to improve the stability and effectiveness of textual-gradient prompt optimization.

Yi-Fan Xu, Yi-Xuan Li, Xin-Zhuo Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Distill What You Trust: Reliability-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

TrustMOPD replaces example-level teacher selection with label-free, token-level supervision allocation and closes the overall-score gap between the initial student and oracle-routed teachers when trained on single- and multi-teacher on-policy distillation.

Jie Sun, Mao Zheng, Ming-Yang Song et al. · 6 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ARID: A Deployable Edge AI System for Structured Information Extraction from Industrial Maintenance Work Orders

Maintenance work orders must often be processed offline on embedded hardware, yet downstream software requires predictable structured output. We present ARID (Aviation-inspired Routing for Industrial Deployment), which extracts component, failure mode, symptom, and maintenance action into fixed-schema JSON on an 8 GB N...

Kuanlin Chen, Chen-Wei Kuo · 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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