Skip to content

Category

natural language processing

9,568 papers

#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probing Collision Grounding in Vision-Language Models for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration

Safe human--robot collaboration requires more than visual description: a monitor must determine whether the robot body is safely separated, already colliding with the scene or a person, or about to collide. We call this capability collision grounding: binding visual observations to robot body geometry, camera viewpoint...

Jun Wang, Xiaohao Xu, Xiaonan Huang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Efficient Benchmarking Is Just Feature Selection and Multiple Regression

Efficient benchmarking techniques aim to lower the computational cost of evaluating LLMs by predicting full benchmark scores using only a subset of a benchmark's questions. By reframing this problem as an instance of multiple regression with feature selection, we find that existing efficient benchmarking methods can be...

Sam Bowyer, Acyr Locatelli, Kris Cao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep Reasoning in General Purpose Agents via Structured Meta-Cognition

Humans intuitively solve complex problems by flexibly shifting among reasoning modes: they plan, execute, revise intermediate goals, resolve ambiguity through associative judgment, and apply formal procedures to well-specified subproblems. Current LLM agents lack this flexibility, as their scaffolds hard-code such reas...

Dean Light, Michael Theologitis, Kshitish Ghate et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MedAction: Towards Active Multi-turn Clinical Diagnostic LLMs

Most existing LLM diagnoses are evaluated on static, single-turn settings where complete patient information is provided upfront, an oversimplification of real clinical practice. We study active diagnosis: the real-life clinical process of starting from initial observation, ordering tests, interpreting results, and upd...

Hsin-Ling Hsu, Zizheng Wang, Donghua Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Better Reward Models Are Not Always Less Biased: Social Alignment Beyond Standard Reward Benchmarks

Reward models are central to LLM alignment, yet current benchmarks reveal little about how they represent diverse and sometimes competing social preferences. We extend reward model evaluation to four socially consequential domains: bias, safety, morality, and ethical reasoning. Our analysis shows that strong benchmark...

Gayane Ghazaryan, Esra D\"onmez · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

daVinci-Env: Open SWE Environment Synthesis at Scale

Training capable software engineering (SWE) agents demands large-scale, executable, and verifiable environments that provide dynamic feedback loops for iterative code editing, test execution, and solution refinement. However, existing open-source datasets remain limited in scale and repository diversity, while industri...

Dayuan Fu, Shenyu Wu, Yunze Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MetaKE: Meta-Learning for Knowledge Editing Toward a Better Accuracy-Editability Trade-off

Existing locate-then-edit Knowledge Editing (KE) methods typically decompose editing into two stages: upstream target representation optimization and downstream constrained parameter optimization. The optimization across the two stages is disconnected: upstream applies uniform regularization without observing downstrea...

Shuxin Liu, Di Gao, Ou Wu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MoE-SpAc: Efficient MoE Inference Based on Speculative Activation Utility in Heterogeneous Edge Scenarios

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable scalable performance but face severe memory constraints on edge devices. Existing offloading strategies struggle with I/O bottlenecks due to the dynamic, low-information nature of autoregressive expert activation. In this paper, we propose to repurpose Speculative Decoding (SD) no...

Shuhuai Li, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CrimeNER: Curated Dataset and Methods for Research and Investigation in Language Intelligence

The extraction of critical information from crime-related documents is a crucial task for law enforcement agencies. The extraction of this information can be interpreted as a Named-Entity Recognition (NER) task. However, there is a considerable lack of adequately annotated data on general real-world crime scenarios. To...

Miguel Lopez-Duran, Julian Fierrez, Aythami Morales et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards robust long-context understanding of large language model via active recap learning

In this paper, we propose active recap learning (ARL), a framework for enhancing large language model (LLM) in understanding long contexts. ARL enables models to revisit and summarize earlier content through targeted sequence construction during continued pretraining and retrospective summarization at inference. First,...

Chenyu Hui · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PAIR-SAFE: A Paired-Agent Approach for Runtime Auditing and Refining AI-Mediated Mental Health Support

LLMs are increasingly used for mental health support, yet they can produce responses that are overly directive, inconsistent, or clinically misaligned. Most risk mitigation approaches rely on implicit alignment through training or prompting, offering limited runtime accountability. We introduce PAIR-SAFE, a paired-agen...

Jiwon Kim, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Dong Whi Yoo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dementia-R1: Reinforced Pretraining and Reasoning from Unstructured Clinical Notes for Real-World Dementia Prognosis

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on clinical text understanding, they struggle with longitudinal prediction tasks such as dementia prognosis, which require reasoning over complex, non-monotonic symptom trajectories across multiple visits. Standard supervised training lacks explicit annot...

Choonghan Kim, Hyunmin Hwang, Hangeol Chang et al. · 0 citations

From tech blogs

See all →
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.

We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads. See our Cookie Policy.