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#artificial intelligence Preprint Jul 2026

Lens: Bringing the Right Semantic Perspective into Focus for Training-Free Multimodal Representation Learning

Lens is a training-free framework that makes representation readout task-directed, and achieves an overall Precision@1 of 63.9 across all 36 MMEB datasets, outperforming the closest same-backbone training-free embedding baseline by 10.2 points.

Xin-Ran Liu, Shou-Qian Shi, Yi-Xian Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Reading Emotions in the Token Space: Discriminative Adaptation of SpeechLLMs for Emotion Recognition

A discriminative adaptation that reads the final prompt token's hidden state through a classification head, producing a label in one forward pass without modifying the backbone, gives a controlled comparison of generative and discriminative inference in an otherwise identical speechLLM.

Hasindri Watawana, Sergio Gastón Burdisso, Esaú Villatoro-Tello et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AI Should Facilitate Democratic Deliberation at Scale

This position paper argues that AI-assisted deliberation offers a more promising path by lowering barriers to meaningful engagement without substituting machine judgment for human choice.

José Ramón Enríquez, Jia-Xin Pei, A. Pentland · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

The Missing Complement: State-Conditioned Minimal Sufficient Evidence for Coding Agents

Retrieval assembles repository context by ranking passages for relevance to the current query. A coding agent halfway through an issue has already read much of what such a ranker returns. Relevance is scored per passage, but sufficiency belongs to the set: independently scored passages can fill the budget with support...

Zhe-Xi Feng, Rui-Yi Zhang, Yong-Bo Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PetriBench: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning over Dynamic State Spaces

PetriBench is introduced, a compact, fully self-contained, and scalable benchmark for evaluating LLM reasoning over dynamic state spaces using Petri nets, a mature formalism for modeling real-world concurrent and distributed systems.

Pyrros Koussios, Benjamin Jäger, John Hua Yao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Zarya: A Hybrid Autoregressive--Masked Diffusion Language Model with Flexible Training and Dual-Mode Inference

Zarya is introduced, a family of hybrid language models that jointly optimizes an autoregressive (AR) objective and a masked-diffusion objective within a single architecture, demonstrating performance on standard benchmarks while offering a principled integration of autoregressive and diffusion paradigms.

Leonid S. Sinev, Ilya Koziev, Vladislav Leshchuk · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Evolution or Illusion? Rethinking Evaluation in LLM Evolutionary Search

This work evaluates three evolutionary search strategies on five optimization tasks, commonly used by papers in the genre to report results, and suggests that the best way to split a fixed budget between more seeds and more iterations changes with the strategy, the task, and the total budget.

Tal Oved, Roi Pony, O. Naparstek et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Learn Your Own Thoughts: Abstract Token Curriculum

This work proposes Abstract Token Curriculum (ATC), a novel curriculum learning framework that elicits effective continuous intermediate representations without direct supervision or manual scratchpad design and shows ATC's effectiveness on graph reachability and arithmetic learning tasks.

Khashayar Gatmiry, Avrajit Ghosh, Parsa Mirtaheri et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Form Over Content In Gradient-Based Data Attribution Methods

Data attribution methods using gradient similarity are widely used to analyze and select training data for large language models, but what gradient similarity actually measures is debated. Some interpret it as identifying task-relevant skills, while other work reports that surface form is the main factor. We resolve th...

Sunwoo Kim, Seokwon Jung, Sohyung Kim et al. · 1 citation

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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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