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MLAfication: Efficiently Enabling High-Fidelity MLA for Modern LLMs

Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) compresses the KV cache into a latent representation, reducing inference memory and bandwidth. Existing MHA2MLA/TransMLA methods do not support QKNorm and require costly recovery on modern LLMs, especially MoE. We present MLAfication, a QKNorm-compatible, parameter-efficient extension...

Zile Wang, Zhide Xie, Tao Ji · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Universal Calibration for In-Context Classification

In-Context Learning (ICL) has received a lot of interest recently due to its ability to improve classification accuracy for new tasks without having to fine-tune the model over these tasks. However, the impact of ICL on calibration has been far less studied. Recent work has shown that ICL can have a negative impact on...

Awik Dhar, Sunita Sarawagi, Arpit Agarwal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Bell Boundary of Shared Representations

When does a shared representation become insufficient for jointly supporting multiple tasks? This question lies at the heart of multi-task learning models. Although task interference in shared representations has been widely observed, its onset, measurable form, and capacity boundary remain poorly understood. In this p...

Yang Wu, Hanyu Zhao, Yazhou Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TPPO: Tracking-Value PPO For Language Model Reasoning

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is widely used in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards for language-model reasoning. While \emph{value evolution along trajectory} characterizes relative token-level credit, yet standard critics often fail to track it under sparse terminal rewards. To model this evolution, w...

Futing Wang, Chenxi Li, Jianhao Yan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Is the Platform Part of the Measurement? A Protocol and Simulation Study for Cross-Platform Equivalence of Machine-Labelled Policy Sentiment

Comparing machine-labelled sentiment across social media platforms is now routine: differences in classifier scores between platforms are read as differences in public opinion. These comparisons rest on an assumption that the classifier measures the same construct, on the same scale, on every platform. Some studies che...

Asad Ikram, Ella Haig · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learn from Move: the Next Step for GUI Agents

Existing benchmarks for GUI agents primarily focus on increasing task difficulty by extending task horizons. Besides, enabling agents to explore unfamiliar environments and successfully complete tasks within them is also a critical yet challenging problem. We introduce LatentGUIWorld, a benchmark of six tasks in three...

Jia-Hao Lu, Yi-Ze Shen, Chuan-Yuan Tan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Attention-Graph Curvature for the Verification of Mathematical Reasoning

Language models have recently solved open Erd\H{o}s problems and achieved gold-medal level performance on International Mathematical Olympiad problems. But their solutions, written in natural language, cannot yet be verified by proof assistants. An erroneous reasoning step can invalidate every step that comes after, so...

Kanghyeon Kim, Johannes F. Lutzeyer, Yanzhu Guo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

LoongSage: A Production-Grade, High-Efficiency Agentic RL Framework for Frontier LLMs with Validated Recipes

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a critical phase in the post-training pipeline of large language models (LLMs). As the frontier of LLM capabilities shifts from static reasoning to agentic tasks--characterized by external tool invocation, multi-turn interactions, and long-horizon decision-making--existing mai...

LoongSage Team Bowei Song, Cai-Wei Zhao, Chu-Wen Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Error Correction in Trained TTT Layers

Test-time-training (TTT) layers update fast-weight memory while processing an input sequence. A gradient-based update, however, does not by itself establish how the memory revises an existing association. We study the structure and empirical role of prediction-derived updates in released TTT implementations. For dot-pr...

Yu-He Hu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scaling Repeated-Data Pretraining: Batch Size, Regularization, and GPU-Time Tradeoffs

We study pretraining when compute is abundant but unique training data are finite, requiring repeated training on the same data. We first revisit infinite-compute pretraining (Kim et al. 2026) and show that its frontier depends critically on choices previously fixed or studied only in isolation. In particular, optimizi...

Sewon Min · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

What Do Sparse Autoencoder Feature Discovery Scores Identify? From Activations to Interventions

Sparse autoencoder (SAE) features are typically discovered from how their activations co-vary with behaviour, yet they are often used through interventions such as steering or ablation. We take intervention attribution, the first-order effect of a specified intervention on the model output, as our estimand. For a broad...

Yi-Feng Guo, Yan-Ran Li, Xiang Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Heterogeneous Structured Pruning Under Resource Constraints for Hardware-Efficient Large Language Models

Training-free pruning removes weights from pretrained large language models to reduce their deployment cost. However, existing approaches typically consider only the total number of retained weights. Consequently, their pruning decisions do not account for how target hardware stores and processes those weights. These m...

C. Barker, A. Paraskeva, J. V. van Rijn 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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