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#natural language process... Conference Open access Oct 2026

Identify, Classify, Act: Per-Instruction Controlled Compliance for LLMs over External Data

Across two backbones and five benchmarks, EDIC improves both safety and utility over the strongest prior defense, lifting harmful-rejection by up to 7.7\% and Arena-Hard-Auto utility by 12.5\% on Qwen3-4B.

Ze-Sheng Shi, Xue Li, Chen-Rui Dai et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Uncertainty-Aware Budget Allocation for Efficient LLM Tree Search

Tree search enhances multi-step reasoning in large language models (LLMs), yet prevailing methods expand every step with a fixed budget, irrespective of the marginal utility of expansion. We first show, across existing search algorithms, that continuations sampled from a shared intermediate state are largely duplicates...

Jianguo Huang, Zhiyi Lyu, Fuxiang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Reliance Hypothesis: Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness Rises as Language Resource Level Falls

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) faithfulness matters for monitoring, explaining and safely deploying large language models, yet it has been studied mostly in English. Languages differ in level, the amount of text available to learn from, so models know less in lower-resource languages, which may change how much they rely on the...

Lucas Resck, Jingyi Sun, Qianli Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Watermarkability: Measuring and Improving Language-Model Compatibility with Logit-Based Watermarks

Language-model watermarks can help identify model-generated text, encode provenance information, and detect post-generation edits. A broad class of logit-based watermarks increases the logits of a designated token set at each decoding step. Because a base model's native probability mass on this set varies across contex...

Ze-Wei Deng, M. Seif, Li-Yan Xie · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

On the Position Bias of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Study

Recent studies have shown that position bias remains a critical vulnerability in large language models (LLMs), undermining both the integrity of multiple-choice evaluations and the reliability of retrieval-augmented generation. However, existing understanding of this phenomenon is largely derived from studies with limi...

Yi-Ning Li, Huayang Li, Le-Mao Liu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Causal Latent Workspaces for Looped Transformers

Reusing a Transformer block across depth increases computation without replicating its parameters, but successive passes have no dedicated state through which positions can exchange compact summaries of their causal prefix. We introduce the causal latent workspace Transformer: an anchored, four-round shared-depth archi...

Ilia Zaznov · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Prune the Leaky Neurons: Mitigating Private Data Leakage in Fine-Tuned LLMs via Joint-Embedding-Guided Pruning

JEPA-Prune is proposed, a post-hoc neuron pruning framework guided by a model trained exclusively on PII-free views, which trains a public model on surrogate and masked views of the same records using a joint-embedding predictive architecture (JEPA), capturing domain knowledge without identifiers.

M. Shaaban, Mohamed Elmahallawy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Evolving Coding Agents via Harness-Policy Optimization

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown promising potential in coding tasks, and their performance is jointly determined by the policy model and the harness that mediates their interaction with the environment. Indeed, harness and policy are mutually reinforcing and evolving only one component is suboptimal---a ha...

Zhepei Wei, Wenlin Yao, Baolin Peng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Thunder-DeID+: Boundary-Aware Korean De-identification from Court Judgments to Broader Sensitive Documents

Thunder-DeID+, which integrates a refined three-tier PII taxonomy with a boundary-aware tokenizer, is introduced, which enhances a pretrained BPE vocabulary by incorporating N-gram and boundary-scoring components to better align token and PII span boundaries.

Gyuseong Lee, Gyeongje Cho, Jongmin Kim et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TokenEconomizer: Experience-Driven Black-Box Cost Control for Coding Agents

Advances in frontier coding agents have sharply increased the token costs of AI-assisted software engineering. Their token efficiency is typically evaluated on isolated tasks, whereas real-world developers use them to continuously build, update, and maintain large-scale projects. This mismatch motivates us to evaluate...

Aaron J. Li, Weijia Xu, Chandan Singh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ARBOR: Locating Reasoning Failures in Long Chains of Thought through Reasoning State Tracking

Large reasoning models solve complex problems through long chains of thought, in which prior work has documented failure modes such as overthinking, underthinking, and unsupported deductions. Existing methods detect these failures from local signals: textual similarity to nearby steps, switch tokens, or an LLM's judgme...

Huihan Li, Siyuan Wang, Naga Vamsi Ramana Dinavahi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

First Passage Attention

First Passage Attention (FPA), which shifts from path summation to path extrema by lowering a key's logit proportionally to the deepest dip of a learned scalar field below that key's level over the intervening span, is proposed.

Yuxuan Liu · 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.

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