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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Better Retrievers, Worse Labels: How Incomplete Relevance Judgments Distort Abstention Evaluation in Conversational RAG

A convenient shortcut reads sufficiency off the relevance judgments and treats a context without gold documents as unanswerable, and is released, and recommended scoring refusals against content labels, not the presence of gold.

Ivan Kochergin, Vasily Konovalov · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Adaptive Personalization Under Preference Epistemic Uncertainty

Human preferences change over time: an established preference may remain valid over time, become uncertain as context shifts, or be explicitly revised. Effective personalization requires conversational AI to adapt its response strategy to evolving preferences rather than relying on passive memory retrieval. We formaliz...

Priyanka Dey, Rajarshi Das, Vikas Bahirwani et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

CoFiBreak: A Coarse-to-Fine Diversity Reward for Effective Multi-Turn Jailbreak

Automated red teaming trains an attacker large language model (LLM) to elicit harmful responses from a victim LLM, but reinforcement learning can collapse attackers onto a narrow set of prompts when attack success is the only reward. Such a collapse of attack diversity can bias safety evaluation toward repeatedly testi...

Jialin Song, Xiaodong Liu, Weiwei Yang et al. · 0 citations

Qistas: A Pre-Registered, Portable Protocol for Fairness Evaluation of Large Language Models

Fairness benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are overwhelmingly English-born and American in their social categories; translated versions carry those categories into societies where they do not apply, and almost none fix their hypotheses before the models are run. We present Qistas (Arabic qistas,"the just bala...

Nawar S. Alseelawi, Mustafa S. Aljumaily · 0 citations

Expected Harm: Rethinking Safety Evaluation of (Mis)Aligned LLMs

This work introduces Expected Harm, a metric that weights the severity of a jailbreak by its execution likelihood, modeled as a function of execution cost, and demonstrates that this miscalibration creates a vulnerability that increases the attack success rate of existing jailbreaks by up to $2\times.

Yen-Shan Chen, Zhi Rui Tam, Cheng-Kuang Wu et al. · 5 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Heads of Security: Learned Attention Gates Improve Prompt Injection Robustness

Heads of Security (HoS), a prompt injection defense that enforces instruction-data separation via a small set of learned per-head attention gates, is introduced and shows that prompt injection robustness can be achieved and improved through targeted attention interventions.

Igor Shilov, Xiao-Xue Yang, Alexander Panfilov et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Windowed-MTP: Removing the Full-Context Draft-KV Tax at Million-Token Context

Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by having a draft propose tokens that a target verifies in parallel. Frontier models increasingly ship a built-in Multi-Token-Prediction (MTP) draft head, assumed to be cheap beside verification. A shipped full-attention MTP head can become disproportionately e...

Alagappan Valliappan · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Natural Language Actor-Critic: Scalable Off-Policy Learning in Language Space

Large language model (LLM) agents -- LLMs that dynamically interact with an environment over long horizons -- have become an increasingly important area of research, enabling automation in complex tasks involving tool-use, web browsing, and dialogue with people. In the absence of expert demonstrations, training LLM age...

Joey Hong, Kang Liu, Zhan Ling et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Latent Reasoning in Continuous Space for Unified Multimodal Models

A Latent Reasoning framework in Continuous space (LARC), which alleviates the token-level bottleneck by reasoning over continuous hidden states and achieves state-of-the-art performance on GenEval and demonstrates clear test-time scaling behavior.

Byungwoo Jeon, Yoonwoo Jeong, Hyunseok Lee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Text as an Index for Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Knowledge Tracing

Knowledge tracing (KT) predicts a student's next response from their history. New platforms often have question texts but no response logs for training, motivating zero-shot cross-domain KT. Existing transfer and cold-start methods use question semantics, but cross-platform semantic discrepancies limit transferability....

Yin Yi, Haiping Ma, Siyu Song et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Peeling the Matryoshka: Extracting Ontological Structure from Retrieval Embeddings

Taxonomy construction is essential for knowledge-intensive NLP yet remains costly: clustering-based methods (i) need careful per-corpus tuning and yield unstable hierarchies, while LLM-based pipelines (ii) depend on expensive task-specific training that does not transfer across domains. We report an empirical finding t...

Eunchan Kim, Inwhee Joe · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

From Training Exposure to Membership Evidence: A Controlled Study of OLMo 2

Whether a language model was trained on a document matters for copyright, privacy, and benchmark contamination. Yet most membership-inference (MI) evaluations on language models collect members and non-members after the fact, so success may reflect distribution shift and failure is inconclusive. We re-ran OLMo 2 1B's o...

A. Banaei, Muhammad Shahzad, Gerald Q. Maguire 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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