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Can Safety Emerge from Weak Supervision? A Systematic Analysis of Small Language Models

Punyajoy Saha, Sudipta Halder, Debjyoti Mondal, Subhadarshi Panda · Mar 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise PreferenceRed Team Automatic Metrics General
  • Safety alignment is critical for deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications, yet most existing approaches rely on large human-annotated datasets and static red-teaming benchmarks that are costly, difficult to scale,…
  • Moreover, overly conservative safety mechanisms can reduce model usefulness by rejecting sensitive but legitimate queries.
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Beyond Rows to Reasoning: Agentic Retrieval for Multimodal Spreadsheet Understanding and Editing

Anmol Gulati, Sahil Sen, Waqar Sarguroh, Kevin Paul · Mar 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Human EvalAutomatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • We introduce Beyond Rows to Reasoning (BRTR), a multimodal agentic framework for spreadsheet understanding that replaces single-pass retrieval with an iterative tool-calling loop, supporting end-to-end Excel workflows from complex analysis…
  • Supported by over 200 hours of expert human evaluation, BRTR achieves state-of-the-art performance across three frontier spreadsheet understanding benchmarks, surpassing prior methods by 25 percentage points on FRTR-Bench, 7 points on…
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From Prompting to Preference Optimization: A Comparative Study of LLM-based Automated Essay Scoring

Minh Hoang Nguyen, Vu Hoang Pham, Xuan Thanh Huynh, Phuc Hong Mai, Vinh The Nguyen, Quang Nhut Huynh · Mar 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Coding
  • On this unified benchmark, we evaluate four approaches: (i) encoder-based classification fine-tuning, (ii) zero- and few-shot prompting, (iii) instruction tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and (iv) Supervised Fine-Tuning…
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When Weak LLMs Speak with Confidence, Preference Alignment Gets Stronger

Amirabbas Afzali, Myeongho Jeon, Maria Brbic · Mar 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics General
  • Building on this insight, we propose Confidence-Weighted Preference Optimization (CW-PO), a general framework that re-weights training samples by a weak LLM's confidence and can be applied across different preference optimization…
  • Notably, the model aligned by CW-PO with just 20% of human annotations outperforms the model trained with 100% of annotations under standard DPO.
Open paper

Match reason: Title directly matches "cost".

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • We compare a fact-based memory system built on the Mem0 framework against long-context LLM inference on three memory-centric benchmarks - LongMemEval, LoCoMo, and PersonaMemv2 - and evaluate both architectures on accuracy and cumulative API…
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Reject, Resample, Repeat: Understanding Parallel Reasoning in Language Model Inference

Noah Golowich, Fan Chen, Dhruv Rohatgi, Raghav Singhal, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Dylan J. Foster · Mar 9, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 80% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Given a base language model and a *process reward model* estimating expected terminal rewards, we ask: *how accurately can we sample from a target distribution given some number of process reward evaluations?* Theoretically, we identify (1)…
Open paper
CoTJudger: A Graph-Driven Framework for Automatic Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Efficiency and Redundancy in LRMs

Siyi Li, Jiajun Shi, Shiwen Ni, Ge Zhang, Shuaimin Li, Shijian Wang · Mar 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 80% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Medicine
  • Existing evaluations largely emphasize final accuracy or coarse token counts, and lack automated tools to separate essential logic from structural redundancy.
  • We introduce CoTJudger, a graph-driven framework that quantifies reasoning efficiency by converting free-form CoTs into directed dependency graphs and extracting the Shortest Effective Path (SEP) needed to reach a correct solution.
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SPOT: Span-level Pause-of-Thought for Efficient and Interpretable Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models

Yunlong Chu, Minglai Shao, Yuhang Liu, Bing Hao, Yumeng Lin, Jialu Wang · Mar 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 80% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Experiments on reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that SPOT improves accuracy by 2.3 points on average while reducing generated tokens by 37.5% and provides faithful semantic interpretations of the latent reasoning process.
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 80% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Coding
  • Large-scale content analysis is increasingly limited by the absence of observable ground truth or gold-standard labels, as creating such benchmarks through extensive human coding becomes impractical for massive datasets due to high time,…
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 80% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • We introduce two evaluation metrics: Content Preservation Ratio (CPR) and Tag Well-Formedness (TWF), in order to avoid hallucinations and unnecessary additions or omissions to the input text beyond the task requirement.
Open paper
Deterministic Differentiable Structured Pruning for Large Language Models

Weiyu Huang, Pengle Zhang, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou, Jun Zhu, Jianfei Chen · Mar 9, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 77% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
General
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
POET-X: Memory-efficient LLM Training by Scaling Orthogonal Transformation

Zeju Qiu, Lixin Liu, Adrian Weller, Han Shi, Weiyang Liu · Mar 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 77% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
General
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
SoK: Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Taxonomy, Architectures, Evaluation, and Research Directions

Saroj Mishra, Suman Niroula, Umesh Yadav, Dilip Thakur, Srijan Gyawali, Shiva Gaire · Mar 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are increasingly evolving into agentic architectures where large language models autonomously coordinate multi-step reasoning, dynamic memory management, and iterative retrieval strategies.
  • Despite rapid industrial adoption, current research lacks a systematic understanding of Agentic RAG as a sequential decision-making system, leading to highly fragmented architectures, inconsistent evaluation methodologies, and unresolved…
Open paper
ThaiSafetyBench: Assessing Language Model Safety in Thai Cultural Contexts

Trapoom Ukarapol, Nut Chukamphaeng, Kunat Pipatanakul, Pakhapoom Sarapat · Mar 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Llm As JudgeAutomatic Metrics General
  • Using ThaiSafetyBench, we evaluate 24 LLMs, with GPT-4.1 and Gemini-2.5-Pro serving as LLM-as-a-judge evaluators.
  • Finally, we introduce the ThaiSafetyBench leaderboard to provide continuously updated safety evaluations and encourage community participation.
Open paper
MAPO: Mixed Advantage Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Multi-Turn Dialogue

Naifan Zhang, Ruihan Sun, Jinwei Su, Hengjie Yang, Zhengyuan Pan, Zhaohan Chen · Mar 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matched by broad semantic/index fallback.

Score: 38% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Llm As JudgeSimulation Env Long Horizon General
  • We propose a critic-free and efficient RL algorithm named MAPO that leverages dense process feedback from a judge model and propagates long-horizon effects through Monte Carlo returns.
  • Across multiple subjective dialogue benchmarks, including EMPA, EmoBench, and EQ-Bench, and model scales ranging from 7B to 32B, our method consistently improves both training stability and final performance over outcome-only GRPO and…
Open paper
SAHOO: Safeguarded Alignment for High-Order Optimization Objectives in Recursive Self-Improvement

Subramanyam Sahoo, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain, Divya Chaudhary · Mar 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matched by broad semantic/index fallback.

Score: 32% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Critique Edit MathCoding
  • We introduce SAHOO, a practical framework to monitor and control drift through three safeguards: (i) the Goal Drift Index (GDI), a learned multi-signal detector combining semantic, lexical, structural, and distributional measures; (ii)…
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