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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

The widespread adoption of long-horizon agents has made model workloads increasingly input-heavy. Although prior work has substantially reduced the cost of long-context computation, prefill remains computationally expensive, and large KV caches continue to strain HBM and SSD capacity and data-transfer bandwidth. Togeth...

De Xu, B. Li, Bang Lin et al. · 93 citations · ⚡4
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Before the Arrest: Benchmarking LLMs on Criminal Profiling from Incomplete Evidence

The Profiling, Investigation, and Judgment (PIJ), comprising 2,500 real homicide cases from five countries, is introduced and it is found that performance degrades systematically as tasks shift from explicit fact extraction to implicit reasoning over unknown suspect profiles.

Yu-Tong Yao, Yan-Jie Cao, Guan-Hua Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Generalization through Lexical Abstraction in Transformer Models: The Case of Functional Words

Pronouns, adverbs and other functional words (such as they, her, somewhere, there) are often used in language to replace concrete nouns or phrases, when their properties - such as gender, grammatical number - provide sufficient information for the given context. Do pretrained transformer models encode such functional w...

Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Paola Merlo · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Evaluating Communicative Success in Machine-Translated Conversation

A reusable three-layer checklist-and-judge framework that evaluates interpreter-mediated conversation across semantic, pragmatic, and cultural-social dimensions, covering the naturalness, intent, and social appropriateness that fidelity metrics leave unmeasured is introduced.

Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Alice Oh · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

D-Quant: Driftable Entropy Coding for KV Cache Quantization

D-Quant is proposed, a flexible KV cache quantization framework that introduces a Drift mechanism to convert entropy-coded representations of each token into fixed-size bitstreams, enabling regular memory access and parallel dequantization within attention kernels.

Yi Su, Hong Liu, Guang-Hua Yu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

V\={a}kQA: A Benchmark and Evaluation Study for Telugu Spoken Factoid Question Answering

V\={a}kQA, a Telugu SQA benchmark of 2,001 factoid question-answer pairs across six domains, is introduced and it is observed that Telugu phrasing retains cultural specificity that is lost in translation, speech input introduces phonetic confusions that alter question meaning, and cascaded ASR-MT errors compound progre...

Bhavana Akkiraju, Ravi Sastry Kolluru, D. SriCharan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

JustMem: Just-Enough Memory Access for Long-Term Conversations

JustMem is introduced, which stores conversation history as compact atomic memories and adapts memory access along two dimensions to each query and achieves the highest mean accuracy and retrieval recall among the compared memory systems while using substantially fewer generative-model tokens for memory construction an...

Guan-Hua Chen, Yan-Ting Wang, Wen-Jing Zhi et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

F$^{2}$DR: A Fine-Grained Full-Pipeline Reward Framework for DeepSearch Workflows

F2DR evaluates DeepSearch workflows across three dimensions: Content, Trajectory, and Answer, enabling comprehensive process-level assessment, and constructs DeepSearch RM-Bench, a dedicated benchmark for evaluating RMs in DeepSearch scenarios.

Bo-Jian Xiong, Wen-Tao Ding, Yu-Jing Lu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Dictionary-Constrained Grapheme-to-Phoneme for Unsegmented Languages from LLM-Annotated Data

A context-aware, segmentation-agnostic neural G2P framework that models the joint segmentation-and-reading hypothesis space, scoring paths of a discriminative conditional random field (CRF) over a dictionary-derived word lattice over a dictionary-derived word lattice is presented.

Rui Hu, Zhen Zhan, Xiao-Long Lin · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Learn Before You Judge: Progressive Knowledge-to-Decision Alignment for Explainable Hateful Meme Detection

Hateful memes spread abusive content through implicit interactions between images and text, posing serious threats to the safety of online communities. In recent years, multimodal large language models have been widely used for hateful meme detection and are increasingly adopted to generate explainable detection result...

Bo Xu, Chen-Yuan Wang, Xin-Yu Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

A Phonemically Comprehensive, ASCII-Only Romanization Scheme for Thai and Lao: Systematic Cross-Lingual Correspondence and Chinese-User-Friendly Design

A phonemically comprehensive, ASCII-only romanization scheme for Thai and Lao, treating the two closely related languages as a unified cross-lingual design problem, which provides a readable, keyboard-friendly, and machine-processable phonemic representation for language learning and cross-lingual speech processing.

Zi-Jie Zhang, Tan Lee · 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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