Activation steering has become a widely used approach for controlling language models during explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, motivating its extension to latent CoT. However, we find that steering continuous thoughts produces substantially weaker effects on subsequent language generation than steering explici...
Debate adjudication requires tracking how arguments develop through interaction, yet existing datasets rarely combine fine-grained debate transcripts with professional judgments collected during real competitions under a shared rubric. We introduce a dataset and benchmark for evaluating large language models' understan...
Zongrui Yang, Haoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang et al.· 0 citations
Recent work applies human psychometric questionnaires to large language models to elicit moral and value profiles, but it is not clear whether these instruments measure anything stable in models or whether the resulting profiles can be moved toward a target human population. We administer the Norwegian Moral Foundation...
This work introduces GameLogicBench, a benchmark of 72 gameplay-logic tasks in Godot projects, and compared versions of the benchmark evaluator built with and without validation using mutants.
Xin-Yu Che, Yun-Fei Ge, Shi-Hao Li et al.· 2 citations
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It is suggested that AI reproduces the surface of cooperation without the mutual adaptation that grounds it between humans - and, more surprisingly, that mechanisms sustaining human accommodation can run in reverse with AI, suggesting a turn-level view may be insufficient for interaction-level success.
G-RELIC (Graph Based Contextual Relexicalization with Improved Consistency) is introduced which combines the power of LLMs with graphs which maximizes the analytical utility of relexicalized datasets while minimizing re-identification risk.
Dipankar Das, Atri Mandal, Sandeep Singh et al.· 0 citations
Large language models have shown strong potential as role-playing agents for real individuals, yet faithful impersonating remains challenging. Existing in-context learning-based methods fail to capture how individuals react under different situations. In addition, LLM-based evaluation is difficult for obscure individua...
Jinjun Peng, Yi-Zhen Zhang, Chun-Nan Chou et al.· 0 citations
Factual hallucination is commonly defined by incorrect factual outputs. We study a paraphrase-induced hallucination setting, where a model answers a factual question correctly in its original form but generates an incorrect answer under a semantically equivalent paraphrase. Such inconsistencies expose latent factual in...
Wenhan Yu, Wenxin Wu, Hao Wang et al.· 0 citations
A productivity-oriented framework for evaluating human-AI collaboration as outcome quality relative to interaction cost is introduced and shows how dialogue analysis can inform the evaluation and design of AI systems.
A task vector transfer based experiment where after computing the task vectors for a direction of value preference the authors orthogonalize it with respect to the general instruction following vector shows that this method is effective in isolating the direction of the specific value preference that can successfully b...
It is shown that while curating community-driven data improves the alignment of LLM responses, model performance remains disparate across distinct sub-communities and specific mental health needs.
Mohit Chandra, Nabin Kim, Eli Min et al.· 0 citations
It is shown that test-time communication can substantially outperform independent parallel attempts on challenging tasks, where sharing a breakthrough can push the whole group forward, and gains compound with scale, suggesting gains compound with scale.
Jongho Park, Vasilis Kontonis, Shivam Garg et al.· 2 citations
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.
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· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
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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