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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Structured Prompts Improve Evaluation of Language Models

As language models (LMs) are increasingly adopted across domains, high-quality benchmarking frameworks are essential for guiding deployment decisions. However, frameworks such as Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) typically evaluate models under a single static prompt configuration, even though model behavio...

Asad Aali, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Vasiliki Bikia et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Imprompt: A Language Framework for Prompt Programming

With the unprecedented success of Language Models (LMs), the science of Prompt Engineering has evolved the powerful idea of Prompt Programming, where prompts are treated as a programmable control surface for describing complex tasks and leveraging LM capabilities. However, existing prompt programming frameworks suffer...

Chentian Wu, Shengyuan Yang, Adithya Murali · 0 citations
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From Senses to Decisions: The Information Flow of Auditory and Visual Perception in Multimodal LLMs

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can listen and see, but how do audio and visual signals actually travel through the network to shape an answer? Despite their growing role in research and real-world applications, the internal pathways through which audio and visual tokens influence the final prediction remain p...

Wish Suharitdamrong, Muhammad Awais, Xiatian Zhu et al. · 0 citations
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Payoff scaling shapes cooperation in LLM agents across languages

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that negotiate, coordinate, and make decisions on behalf of human users. Understanding how they cooperate is therefore important for AI governance and machine behaviour research. We examine two factors: payoff magnitude and interaction language...

Trung-Kiet Huynh, Dao-Sy Duy-Minh, Thanh-Bang Cao et al. · 0 citations
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Aligning Language Models with General Preferences: An Empirical Study of Direct Nash Optimization

Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) aligns a language model to a general preference function by approximating the Nash equilibrium of a two-player preference game. Its practical variant, DNO-Prct, iterates on-policy sampling, LLM-based rating of the samples together with a teacher's gold response, large-margin preference-pa...

Austin Tsai, Saurav Nanda, Ganapathy Parthasarathy et al. · 0 citations
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Suppressing Misaligned Behaviors in Language Models, Durably

Undesired model behaviors can emerge or re-emerge at any stage of training. Once observed, how effectively can we suppress them? To study this question, we first construct two model organisms--language models deliberately trained to exhibit a specific misalignment--that differ in what triggers the behavior. The narrow-...

Luxi He, Peng-Cheng Jiang, Jifan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
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LoopVQ: Sub 1-bit KV Cache Quantization for Looped Transformers

Looped transformers are a parameter-efficient alternative to standard transformers for language modeling. By reapplying the same layers across multiple loop steps, recent looped language models match the performance of non-looped models several times their size. While this architecture effectively reduces parameter mem...

Minsoo Cheong, Sungjoo Yoo · 0 citations
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Personas Are Not People: Identity as State, Not Attribute

Synthetic populations, large sets of simulated people, are increasingly used in place of real people to pretest surveys, simulate users and communities, and evaluate AI systems. Each simulated person is defined by a persona, a written profile of fixed traits, demographics, and attitudes that a language model is instruc...

Tamunotonye Harry, Yuanyuan Feng · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Knowingly Wrong: Training LLMs Against Their Own Beliefs can Induce Misalignment

Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on harmful data in a narrow domain, such as bad medical advice, can make it broadly misaligned. How realistic this risk is remains unclear, since models are very rarely fine-tuned on explicitly harmful data in practice. In this work, we show that fine-tuning on data the model be...

Ariana M. Villegas-Suarez, Guido Freire, Sohan Venkatesh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2026

Beyond Accuracy: What Language-Subspace Interventions Capture, Remove, and Improve

Language-subspace interventions aim to improve multilingual reasoning by suppressing language-related components in mid-layer activations. Using MATH and MGSM across four open-weight LLMs, we ask three questions: do estimated language subspaces capture translation-associated variation? Does projecting them out remove l...

Shaanil Punglia, Dadhichi Telwadkar, V. Rathore 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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