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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CulturalRiddles: A Multicultural Benchmark of Riddles

As LLMs expand their language coverage, evaluating how well they understand and represent diverse cultures becomes increasingly important. However, many benchmarks remain English-centric, with limited cultural coverage and a focus on factual knowledge over its application in real-world cultural contexts. We propose Cul...

My Chiffon Nguyen, Tianyi Hu, Vinod Anbalagan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference Open access Oct 2026

LTEM: LLM-Friendly Table-Enhanced Markdown for Table Understanding and Generation

Tables in real-world documents, including scientific papers, financial reports, and statistical summaries, frequently use merged cells, multi-level headers, and sectioned layouts. Yet the lightweight formats LLMs handle best (Markdown, CSV) cannot express these structures, while expressive formats (HTML, LaTeX) impose...

Eunbin Kim, Hyeonseok Kang, Sangkeun Jung · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explore More, Validate Less: Efficient Reflective Prompt Optimization

Reflective prompt optimization improves instructions using task feedback, but coupling candidate generation with full-validation-based selection can make search costly and sequential. We propose a two-stage framework that decouples reflective candidate-pool construction from validation allocation. During construction,...

Xiaofan Zhou, Lu Cheng · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

AfriGuard: Safety and Robust Refusal For African Languages

Large language models (LLMs) designed to interact with users are typically trained to respond appropriately to harmful or toxic content. However, ensuring appropriate responses becomes more challenging in diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, where safety risks may be expressed or interpreted differently. Building...

I. Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Iffat Maab et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The Geometry of Agent Memory: Forecasting Retrieval-Bound Memory Failures, and Characterizing Its Limits

We study whether geometric relationships between conversation turns, memory texts, and queries can predict answer correctness before generation. We evaluate four memory implementations with dense or hybrid retrieval and one observation-summary comparator. We embed these texts in a shared space. A logistic classifier us...

I. Zhechev, Radoslav Ralev, Chris Coleman et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Expert L2 English Speech Evaluation on a Gaming PC: Accuracy, Fluency, and Prosody with XLS-R, XEUS, and PhoneticXeus

oollim is a locally executable system for evaluating L2 English pronunciation accuracy, fluency, and prosody on a consumer computer. The system combines pretrained XLS-R, XEUS, and PhoneticXeus representations with reference-text features and ridge regressions trained on SpeechOcean762, the Korean Learners' L2 Speech C...

Richard Rose (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Quality-Controlled Reply and Summary Data for Post-Training Small Language Models in AI Call-Screening Agents

Small language models have improved to the point where a phone can plausibly screen its own calls, answering on an absent owner's behalf without sending call content off the device, a privacy-respecting alternative to cloud call handling. Realizing that promise takes a model that can do two things well: reply within th...

Jiaqi Gan, Tsang Ng, Ankit Raj et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dual-Slot: From Serial Loops to Parallel Slots in Language Models

Looped language models increase computational depth by repeatedly applying shared layers, offering a way to improve model quality without adding parameters. However, sequential dependencies between loop iterations increase autoregressive decoding latency. We introduce Dual-Slot, an architecture that reorganizes serial...

Yiqin Hao, Zitong Wang, Boyi Zeng et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

P2N: Reusing Deep Representations for Greater Effective Depth

Mathematical problem solving and autonomous agents are increasingly important applications of language models, demanding stronger reasoning capabilities. Computational depth is a key resource for such reasoning, but adding model layers increases both training and inference costs, while test-time scaling incurs substant...

Yiqin Hao, Boyi Zeng, Zitong Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CoinRAG: Contextualized Information Nugget KV Cache Reuse for Long-Context RAG

Recent optimization studies on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have exploited chunk-level KV cache reuse to avoid processing long retrieved contexts for higher efficiency, while significant information redundancy and noise still remain in the coarse-grained chunks. This paper optimizes the Pareto frontier under lo...

Gyuwan Kim, Cheoneum Park, Tao Yang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Does Accuracy Equal Evidence? Reasoning Faithfulness under KV Cache Compression

KV cache compression is commonly evaluated by final-answer accuracy, implicitly assuming that preserving the answer also preserves the reasoning that supports it. We test this assumption for large reasoning models and show that it can fail: under compression, correct answers and the validity of their visible supporting...

Mengting Ai, Jingrui He, Yue Guo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What the Abstention Option Measures: Refusal Loss, Sampling Churn, and Option Capture in Distilled Small Language Models

Small instruction-tuned language models reach phones, cars, and offline assistants through knowledge distillation, and whether a distilled model is fair enough to ship is often decided by a multiple-choice bias score on a benchmark that offers an abstention option. Three mechanisms move behavior around the abstention o...

Plawan Kumar Rath · 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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