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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Decouple to Forget: Semantic Mediation for Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models

Machine unlearning for large language models seeks to remove specified knowledge while preserving general capability, yet current methods often treat an entire response as the unit of forgetting. This coarse granularity causes unnecessary utility loss when the forget target is only a small set of sensitive facts embedd...

Jing-Yue Cong, Andy Song, Yang Yu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Does an ASR Error Matter? Task-Role Diagnostics for Tool-Using Voice Agents

In cascaded voice agents, ASR errors can have markedly different downstream consequences: a small transcription error may leave a tool call unchanged or alter its intent or arguments. Conventional word error rate (WER), however, does not capture these differences. We introduce SpeechEvalX, a paired diagnostic protocol...

Xiaolong Wang, Shijie Su, Naqi Xiong · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Facts Don't Speak Louder than Words: The Behavioral Essence of Long-CoT Distillation

While long chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation significantly improves the reasoning abilities of language models, its underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Current pipelines generally rely on rejection sampling to gather reasoning traces across diverse prompts, assuming that factual correctness and broad prob...

Yongcan Yu, Jian Liang, Lingxiao He et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TDR: Tagalog Diacritic Restoration Dataset

Homographs are words that share identical spelling but differ in meaning and pronunciation. In Tagalog, these distinctions are disambiguated in writing through tuldik (diacritical marks), which are rarely preserved in contemporary Tagalog text. This scarcity of diacritics limits diacritic restoration, which is useful f...

Ivan Yuri De Leon, Lanz Railey Fermin, Zachary Aldridge Africa et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation

Complex and long-horizon agent tasks often rely on frontier models deployed in the cloud to achieve strong performance. However, using these models for every step of a long-horizon trajectory incurs substantial inference cost, even though not all steps may require the same level of model capability. In this paper, we f...

Zeru Shi, Jindong Jiang, Ryo Hachiuma et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Everyone Was Right: Lexical Representations in Language Models Are Both Abstract and Holistic

Lexical representations can encode both abstract information and information specific to particular contexts. We investigate how these forms of information are organized in language models by decomposing contextual word representations into item, class, and word-class interaction components. Across six pretrained trans...

Zachary Nicholas Houghton, Yu Zhou, Dan Pluth et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Distilling Text LMs into Speech-to-Speech LMs by Matching Internal Text Predictions

Text language models (LMs) acquire broad linguistic and factual capabilities through large-scale pretraining, while comparable capabilities remain difficult to learn from speech alone. Recent work has shown that knowledge distillation from pretrained text LMs offers a promising way to transfer their linguistic and fact...

Ju-Chieh Chou, Jia-Wei Zhou, Karen Livescu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evaluating Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models: Event Temporal Relation Extraction with Allen's Interval Algebra, Logical Consistency, and Relative Time in Narratives

Understanding a narrative means knowing how every event relates in time to every other, yet large language models (LLMs) are mostly tested on isolated event pairs or coarse labels. We ask five LLMs to reconstruct the complete network of Allen's 13 interval relations for 360 English narratives whose events are placed re...

Adib Sakhawat, Fardeen Sadab, Tamjid Hasan Fahim et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

UMCR: Universal Medical Concept Recognition through Guideline Integration and Agentic Linking

Medical Concept Recognition is the task of extracting and grounding spans in medical text to entries in a standard ontology. Current methods are generally developed towards a single ontology and source text type (clinical notes, drug labels, etc.) The central challenge is therefore to build methods that adapt to any ta...

Fabrice Lamarche, Amal Zouaq · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The Curse of Knowledge in Role-Playing Language Models

Role-playing language models speak as characters in games and agent simulations, where the system records what each character can hear, see and understand. We test whether characters respect these boundaries in 480 scenes, each with a counterfactual twin that changes only the hidden fact, so mentions of the twin's fact...

Xiao Zhang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Sampled Evidence to Radiology Reports: Objectives, Constraints, and Realization

Sampling multiple reports creates an inference problem: how should sampled evidence be converted into a final decision, and does a better structured decision yield a better report? We study these questions through a framework that separates the decision signal, scoring objective, and feasible decision set, followed by...

Kun Zhao, Haoteng Tang, Chenghua Lin et al. · 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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