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

Feedback as an Interface: Controlling Form and Detail in LLM Translation Refinement

Feedback presentation shapes how LLMs use evaluator judgments during translation refinement. We introduce a machine translation protocol that keeps the evaluator score, main issue, and recommendation fixed while varying feedback form and supporting detail. Across seven models and six translation directions, low-load fe...

Yiqi Liu, Flavjo Tomori, Nafise Sadat Moosavi et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Towards Robust Calibration Dataset for Domain-General Mixture of Experts Pruning

Post-training expert pruning is a promising deployment technique for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. The calibration set is an integral part of the pruning process, however, its correlation with evaluation performance is largely misunderstood and unintuitive. In this work, we present an empirical study of the robustne...

Luis Frentzen Salim, Chia-Chun Wu, Nhiem Tran et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Fragility and Dynamics of LLM Pruning-Recovery Steps

Structural pruning followed by a recovery stage is the standard recipe for compressing large language models (LLMs), yet the two stages are typically designed and tuned in isolation. In this work, we study how their interaction shapes the compressed model, sweeping ordering, the data that drives each stage, and the ali...

Luis Frentzen Salim, Komang Rinartha, Chia-Chun Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Interpretable Linguistically-Grounded Analysis of Scene Saliency in Movie Screenplays

We investigate the factors affecting salience in movie screenplay by posing two research questions: 1. {\em Does Uniform Information Density (UID) predict salient scenes?} 2. {\em What other linguistic properties distinguish salient scenes from non-salient background?} We answer both questions through a controlled corp...

Uday Bindal, Ishaan Karan, Manan Garg et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Apertus 1.5: From Open Text Models to Open Multimodal Reasoners

Language models are becoming infrastructure, and infrastructure built in the open, by public institutions, on documented data, is the alternative to dependence on a few providers; Apertus shows this is viable at scale. Apertus 1.5 extends the fully open Apertus family from text to multimodal reasoning. Continued pretra...

Project Apertus (ETH Zurich), : (ETH Zurich), Yixuan Xu (ETH Zurich) et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

A Step in the Right Place: Understanding and Optimizing Timestep Placement in Continuous Diffusion Language Models

It is demonstrated that changing timestep placement alone can substantially alter the final latent representations and thereby affect the decoded token distributions and establish timestep placement as a practical means of improving the quality-efficiency trade-off in continuous diffusion language models.

Shu-Tian Zheng, Zhi-Hong Yu, Lin-Ye Wei et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Concept Representations in Vector Space: Quantifying Sharedness and Idiosyncrasy of Meaning

Concepts are the basic units through which we navigate the world and communicate meaning. But do you and I really mean the same thing when we think or speak about a concept? The present study develops a measurement framework for modeling and analyzing interindividual variation in concept representations through sentenc...

Simon Josef Durstewitz, D. Buehler · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Candidate Tokens to Final Outcomes: Decoding Relative Long-Horizon Candidate Value from Reasoning Model Representations

Large reasoning models generate reasoning trajectories token by token. At a given prefix, multiple next-token candidates may be plausible, yet shape subsequent reasoning and differ in their chances of leading to the correct answer. Whether these differences are reflected in internal representations remains unclear. To...

Yixin Yang, Yue Wang, Fandong Meng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do correct answers have stable latent knowledge support?

Large language models are typically evaluated in terms of the correctness of their output. However, output correctness alone does not confirm whether the latent knowledge supporting an answer has stable internal representations. We therefore propose latent state stability (LSS) and knowledge topology stability (KTS) to...

Chuancheng Shi, Shangze Li, Wenhua Wu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Do LLMs differentiate linguistic traits internally?: A layer-wise analysis

Large language models often produce judgments that resemble human responses, but it remains unclear whether they internally capture linguistic nuances such as conventional versus idiomatic meaning. A layer-wise representational analysis was conducted on two equal-sized pre-trained models, Llama-3.2-1B and Gemma-3-1B-PT...

Samhita Bollepally, T. Yamauchi, M. Muralee et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Active Learning for Finding a Needle in a Haystack

Training a classifier to find a rare class of documents, such as hate speech directed at a particular religious group, requires labelled examples that are expensive to obtain when the class makes up only a small fraction of a corpus. Active learning reduces this cost, but it must start from an initial labelled set that...

Emily Silcock, Simon L\"owe · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Proposition-Level Links from Sentence-Level Supervision for Neuro-Symbolic NLI

We study neuro-symbolic natural language inference (NLI) with independently translated propositional representations of the premise and hypothesis. Before symbolic reasoning, the system must infer semantic links between their proposition-level units (atoms). Existing systems based on Abstract Meaning Representation (AM...

Xuyao Feng, Antonis Bikakis · 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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