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MedPRMBench: A Fine-grained Benchmark for Process Reward Models in Medical Reasoning

MedPRMBench is introduced, a step-level medical reasoning benchmark with 14 clinical error types, including five new and two clinically re-scoped types, and rule-defined severity grades, and the training signal replicates across model families.

Ling-Yan Wu, Xiang-Xiang Zheng, Wei-Qi Zhai et al. · 2 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ReasonXL: A Large-Scale Corpus for Language-Specific Reasoning in LLMs

Despite advances in multilingual capabilities, most large language models (LLMs) remain English-centric in their training and, crucially, in the reasoning traces they produce: even for non-English problems, they predominantly reason in English, leaving non-English users with intermediate reasoning they cannot follow. W...

Daniil Gurgurov, Tom R\"ohr, Sebastian von Rohrscheidt et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Rewards Disagree: Reward Weighting for Token-Efficient Video Reasoning

Human perception interprets video dynamics by constructing structured mental representations of entities, actions, and temporal boundaries before engaging in high-level reasoning. In contrast, current Video-LLMs typically rely on unstructured Chain-of-Thought (CoT), where crucial visual cues are obscured by verbose nar...

Zinuo Li, Yongxin Guo, Jun Liu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Ordinal Probabilistic Reward from Preferences

Reward models are crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and intentions. Existing approaches follow either Generative (GRMs) or Discriminative (DRMs) paradigms, yet both suffer from limitations: GRMs typically demand costly point-wise supervision, while DRMs produce uncalibrated relative sc...

Longze Chen, Qi Deng, Lu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LongR: Unleashing Long-Context Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning with Dense Utility Rewards

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a key driver for LLM reasoning. This capability is equally pivotal in long-context scenarios---such as long-dialogue understanding and structured data analysis---where the challenge extends beyond consuming tokens to performing rigorous deduction. While existing efforts focus...

Qize Yu, Zijun Chen, Chen Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Causal Front-Door Adjustment for Robust Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs

Jailbreak attacks on safety-aligned LLMs are increasingly effective, yet attack success alone does not reveal whether compliance is driven by preserved task intent, suppressed safety signals, or attack-specific artifacts. We use Pearl's front-door adjustment to motivate separating task-relevant semantics from safety-re...

Yao Zhou, Zeen Song, Wenwen Qiang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Jan 2026

AfriEconQA: A Benchmark for Quantitative and Temporal Reasoning over World Bank Economic Reports

AfriEconQA, a benchmark for document-grounded question answering built from 204 World Bank economic reports on African economies, is introduced, a corpus whose claims are tied to specific fiscal periods, countries, and projection states.

E. Ajayi, Mustapha Alaba, D. Stephen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What Are We Measuring in NLG? A Meta-Analysis of Evaluation Trends 2020-2025

As Natural Language Generation (NLG) dominates modern NLP, scalable evaluation remains a critical bottleneck. Consequently, LLM-as-a-judge (LaaJ) adoption has accelerated rapidly, appearing in more papers than human evaluation in 2025. This pivotal shift motivates a critical analysis of current evaluation practices. Ov...

Jing Yang, Nils Feldhus, Salar Mohtaj et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fine-grained Analysis of Brain-LLM Alignment through Input Attribution

Understanding the alignment between large language models (LLMs) and human brain activity can reveal computational principles underlying language processing. We introduce a fine-grained input attribution method to identify the specific words most important for brain-LLM alignment, and leverage it to study a contentious...

Michela Proietti, Roberto Capobianco, Mariya Toneva · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Computational Social Linguistics for Telugu Cultural Preservation: Novel Algorithms for Chandassu Metrical Pattern Recognition

This research presents a computational social science approach to preserving Telugu Chandassu, the metrical poetry tradition representing centuries of collective cultural intelligence. We develop the first comprehensive digital framework for analyzing Telugu prosodic patterns, bridging traditional community knowledge w...

Boddu Sri Pavan, Boddu Swathi Sree · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Training Matryoshka Mixture-of-Experts for Elastic Inference-Time Expert Utilization

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficiently scaling large language models without a proportional increase in computational cost. However, the standard training strategy of Top-K router prevents MoE models from realizing their full potential for elastic inference. When the number of acti...

Yaoxiang Wang, Qingguo Hu, Yucheng Ding et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GHTM: A graph-based hybrid topic modeling approach for Bengali language

Topic modeling is a natural language processing technique used to discover latent themes and abstract topics from text corpora by grouping co-occurring keywords. Although widely researched in English, topic modeling remains understudied in Bengali due to a lack of adequate resources and initiatives. Existing Bengali to...

Farhana Haque, Md. Abdur Rahman, Sumon Ahmed · 0 citations

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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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