Ambivalence and hesitancy (A/H) are affective states in which individuals express contradictory signals across facial, vocal, and linguistic channels. Automatically recognising A/H in clinical videos requires detecting cross-modal disagreement -- the signal that standard fusion methods suppress. Based on the conflict-a...
Shiyu Luo, Yu Wang, Jiawen Huang et al.· 0 citations
This work audits eight automatic scorers -- lexical, embedding, and BERTScore baselines alongside entailment/grounding-trained models -- across three evaluation constructs (provenance/topicality, generated-answer attribution, and fact-check entailment), asking whether any scorer transfers: stays within the 95% confiden...
Tianyu Ding, Aditya Nannapaneni, Juan Pablo De la Cruz Weinstein· arXiv.org· 0 citations
This work introduces Biomedica, an open-source dataset derived from the PubMed Central Open Access subset, containing over 6 million scientific articles and 24 million image-text pairs, along with 27 metadata fields (including expert human annotations).
Alejandro Lozano, M. Sun, James Burgess et al.· arXiv.org· 3 citations
Knowing how often a language model fails does not explain where its errors concentrate. When auditors examine many explanations, the strongest observed pattern may arise by chance. We introduce Janus, a procedure for checking proposed error patterns before reporting them. Janus starts with a fixed list of yes/no proper...
Analysis indicates that embedding representations of physical measurements are strongly influenced by superficial string similarity, and recalibration of similarity does not substantially improve the alignment.
This work investigates whether hybrid backbones can become effective DLMs by adapting Qwen3.5 at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B scales, and finds that they can be efficient starting points for adaptation.
Anton Xue, Litu Rout, Aditya Akella et al.· 0 citations
Relational BabyLM is a system submission to the BabyLM 2026 challenge that combines two cognitively motivated inductive biases in a single decoder-only Transformer, and introduces a novel symbol-retrieval mechanism that matches learned symbol libraries while adding no parameters.
Adrian Brasoveanu, Ece Takmaz, Jakub Dotlacil· 0 citations
In extractive document question answering whose questions were generated from the passages that contain their answers -- so that retrieval recovers 92-99.8% of what any mode combination could reach, whatever its absolute accuracy -- confidence-driven mechanisms have little to gain. Fine-tuning an open language model on...
Gun-Woo Lee, Chang-Min Sung, Sang-Hwan Gwak et al.· 0 citations
This empirical study is an independent reproduction of the dissociation Zhao reported in 2026, where the shape of a large language model's chain-of-thought entropy trajectory predicts whether the final answer is correct, while the magnitude of its total entropy drop does not.
An advantage-scale three-way calibration interface is proposed: the same within-group scale denominator simultaneously determines the reward-branch strength, prompt-level batch weight, and the effective KL calibration induced when the reward branch is re-expressed on the original cardinal scale.
Gains in VisKG-LM show that the complete visual-memory interface adds value beyond path textualization alone and support compiled visual memory as an alternative to online graph propagation.
Yi-Xin Peng, Er Jin, Shi-Wei Luo et al.· 0 citations
An exhaustive single-word ablation is introduced that measures a preprocessing step's effect directly against the downstream objective, and applies it to stopword removal, and the result is a caution specific to interpretable legal text-as-data.
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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