We present IQuest-Q1, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) agentic foundation model with 320B total parameters (15B activated). IQuest-Q1 is developed through a three-stage process: (1) stable and efficient pre-training, combining Stable SplitNorm, Muon, and muP with a two-stage curriculum whose second stage increases the...
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Ophthalmic clinical decision support requires fast, accurate, and privacy-preserving inference, yet autoregressive large language models (LLMs) incur substantial latency and computational overhead for decisions among predefined actions. We therefore investigate a decision-oriented alternative to generative reasoning. S...
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Activation verbalizers translate the internal representations of large language models into human-readable text. The recently proposed natural language autoencoders (NLAs) learn this by reconstructing activations through a natural language bottleneck. However, it remains unclear how well these methods generalize beyond...
Andrea Blasi N\'u\~nez, Gianluca Barmina, Federico Torrielli et al.· 0 citations
With external tools, large language models (LLMs) can tackle complex tasks through sustained environmental interaction. LLM-based agents are therefore increasingly used to tackle complex long-horizon tasks in real-world environments. However, these tasks involve sequential, interdependent decisions and changes in envir...
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Silicon sampling generates survey respondents by having a large language model (LLM) answer a survey as a person with given demographic attributes, and the resulting synthetic populations are increasingly used in place of human ones. Existing evaluations focus on individual-answer accuracy, per-question answer distribu...
Nepali-English code-switched conversational speech presents severe challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR), chiefly through script confusion (inappropriate mixing of Devanagari and Latin orthography) and elevated error rates at language switch points. Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) can adapt multilingual founda...
Ambiguity is a central feature of natural communication: a sentence, image, or sound may remain underspecified until evidence from the other channels is considered. Yet current multimodal benchmarks mostly test perception, recognition, or reasoning over already determinate inputs, leaving unclear whether omni-modal lar...
Zhaolu Kang, Yi-Di Wang, Yi-Le Li et al.· 0 citations
TutorCaseBench is introduced, a benchmark that grounds AI-tutor evaluation in qualitative case studies from pedagogy, educational psychology, and special education, and reveals a gap between intervention recognition and context-specific adaptation, especially for open-weight models.
Y. Park, Chanyoung Park, Tae Soo Kim et al.· 0 citations
Language models are aligned to avoid using protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, and gender to inform their responses. Therefore, they increasingly refuse or hedge when such attributes appear in a prompt. However, if a system must decide how much to learn from what people tell it, it is costly to refuse valuabl...
Christian Arnold, Ernesto Calvo, Guadalupe Gonzalez et al.· 0 citations
Do people who speak different languages organize concepts in similar ways? This question lies at the heart of the Sapir--Whorf hypothesis and debates about linguistic relativity. Shared basic meanings, however, need not imply shared relations among them. We compared relations among 196 basic concepts across 81 language...
Guardrail models are increasingly used as safety layers for LLMs and agentic systems, but most are trained on fixed prompt or response interfaces and become unreliable when the same safety case appears as a conversation, agent trajectory, multi-agent trace, or policy-conditioned input. We propose UniGuard, a training f...
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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.