OMNIGUARD: An Efficient Approach for AI Safety Moderation Across Languages and Modalities

Microsoft has previewed a new tool in VS Code Insiders that leverages GitHub Copilot to modernize JavaScript and TypeScript applications by upgrading npm dependencies and addressing breaking changes. This initiative aims to enhance the development experience for programmers using these languages.

QSTN has been introduced as an open-source Python framework designed to generate responses from questionnaire-style prompts, facilitating in-silico surveys and annotation tasks with large language models (LLMs). The framework allows for robust evaluation of questionnaire presentation and response generation methods, based on an extensive analysis of over 40 million survey responses.

A comprehensive study has been conducted on the use of large language models (LLMs) for synthesizing public deliberations into neutral summaries. The research highlights the potential of LLMs to generate summaries while also addressing concerns regarding their ability to represent minority perspectives and biases related to input order. The study introduces DeliberationBank, a dataset created from contributions by 3,000 participants, aimed at evaluating LLM performance in summarization tasks.

A recent empirical study on Large Language Models (LLMs) has revealed that the effectiveness of many-shot prompting for code translation may be overstated. Analyzing over 90,000 translations, researchers found that while more examples can improve static similarity metrics, functional correctness peaks with fewer examples, indicating a 'many-shot paradox'.

The study investigates the short-context dominance hypothesis, suggesting that a small local prefix can often predict the next tokens in sequences. Using large language models, researchers found that 75-80% of sequences from long-context documents only require the last 96 tokens for accurate predictions, leading to the introduction of a new metric called Distributionally Aware MCL (DaMCL) to identify challenging long-context sequences.

A new study has introduced a soft inductive bias approach to enhance inappropriate utterance detection in conversational texts using large language models (LLMs), specifically focusing on Korean corpora. This method aims to define explicit reasoning perspectives to guide inference processes, thereby improving rational decision-making and reducing errors in detecting inappropriate remarks.

A recent study published on arXiv explores the interpretability of machine translation models, particularly focusing on how gender bias manifests in translation choices. By utilizing contrastive explanations and saliency attribution, the research investigates the influence of context, specifically input tokens, on the gender inflection selected by translation models. This approach aims to uncover the origins of gender bias rather than merely measuring its presence.

A recent study has introduced a systematic evaluation framework for aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse human preferences in federated learning environments. This framework assesses the trade-off between alignment quality and fairness using various aggregation strategies for human preferences, including a novel adaptive scheme that adjusts preference weights based on historical performance.