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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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LIT-RAGBench: Benchmarking Generator Capabilities of Large Language Models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Koki Itai, Shunichi Hasegawa, Yuta Yamamoto, Gouki Minegishi, Masaki Otsuki · 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
Llm As JudgeAutomatic Metrics Long Horizon CodingMultilingual
  • To bridge the gap between existing evaluations and practical use, we introduce LIT-RAGBench (the Logic, Integration, Table, Reasoning, and Abstention RAG Generator Benchmark), which defines five categories: Integration, Reasoning, Logic,…
  • We use LLM-as-a-Judge for scoring and report category-wise and overall accuracy.
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ViewFusion: Structured Spatial Thinking Chains for Multi-View Reasoning

Xingjian Tao, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai, Yifan Song, Jing Tang · 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
Automatic Metrics General
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
Confidence Before Answering: A Paradigm Shift for Efficient LLM Uncertainty Estimation

Changcheng Li, Jiancan Wu, Hengheng Zhang, Zhengsu Chen, Guo An, Junxiang Qiu · Mar 6, 2026

Citations: 0

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Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Experiments across math, code, and factual QA benchmarks show improved calibration and uncertainty discrimination while preserving answer quality, thereby enabling a broader range of downstream applications.
Open paper
Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought

Siddharth Boppana, Annabel Ma, Max Loeffler, Raphael Sarfati, Eric Bigelow, Atticus Geiger · 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
Automatic Metrics General
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper

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

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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AgentIR: Reasoning-Aware Retrieval for Deep Research Agents

Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang, Jimmy Lin, Akari Asai, Victor Zhong · Mar 4, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Coding
  • To exploit this overlooked signal, we introduce: (1) Reasoning-Aware Retrieval, a retrieval paradigm that jointly embeds the agent's reasoning trace alongside its query; and (2) DR-Synth, a data synthesis method that generates Deep Research…
  • We demonstrate that both components are independently effective, and their combination yields a trained embedding model, AgentIR-4B, with substantial gains.
Open paper
Supporting Artifact Evaluation with LLMs: A Study with Published Security Research Papers

David Heye, Karl Kindermann, Robin Decker, Johannes Lohmöller, Anastasiia Belova, Sandra Geisler · 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
  • Artifact Evaluation (AE) is essential for ensuring the transparency and reliability of research, closing the gap between exploratory work and real-world deployment is particularly important in cybersecurity, particularly in IoT and CPSs,…
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Abductive Reasoning with Syllogistic Forms in Large Language Models

Hirohiko Abe, Risako Ando, Takanobu Morishita Kentaro Ozeki, Koji Mineshima, Mitsuhiro Okada · 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
  • Research in AI using Large-Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly evolving, and the comparison of their performance with human reasoning has become a key concern.
  • Prior studies have indicated that LLMs and humans share similar biases, such as dismissing logically valid inferences that contradict common beliefs.
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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
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
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
Citations: 0

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

Score: 80% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
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  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
Functionality-Oriented LLM Merging on the Fisher--Rao Manifold

Jiayu Wang, Zuojun Ye, Wenpeng Yin · Mar 5, 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
  • Across various benchmarks and collapse diagnostics, our method remains stable as the number and heterogeneity of merged models increase, consistently outperforming prior baselines.
Open paper
Stacked from One: Multi-Scale Self-Injection for Context Window Extension

Wei Han, Pan Zhou, Soujanya Poria, Shuicheng Yan · Mar 5, 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
  • Across a comprehensive suite of long-context modeling and understanding benchmarks, \modelname~achieves performance superior or comparable to strong baselines, striking an optimal balance between efficiency and accuracy.
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Replaying pre-training data improves fine-tuning

Suhas Kotha, Percy Liang · 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
Automatic Metrics Web Browsing Math
  • We demonstrate the success of replay in practice for fine-tuning 8B parameter models, improving agentic web navigation success by 4.5\% and Basque question-answering accuracy by 2\%.
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Vibe Code Bench: Evaluating AI Models on End-to-End Web Application Development

Hung Tran, Langston Nashold, Rayan Krishnan, Antoine Bigeard, Alex Gu · Mar 4, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 83% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Web Browsing Coding
  • We introduce Vibe Code Bench, a benchmark of 100 web application specifications (50 public validation, 50 held-out test) with 964 browser-based workflows comprising 10,131 substeps, evaluated against deployed applications by an autonomous…
  • We identify self-testing during generation as a strong performance predictor (Pearson r=0.72), and show through a completed human alignment study that evaluator selection materially affects outcomes (31.8-93.6% pairwise step-level…
Open paper
AILS-NTUA at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Graph-Based Retrieval and Reflective Prompting for Abductive Event Reasoning

Nikolas Karafyllis, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Filandrianos, Athanasios Voulodimos, Giorgos Stamou · Mar 4, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 83% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics General
  • We present a winning three-stage system for SemEval 2026 Task~12: Abductive Event Reasoning that combines graph-based retrieval, LLM-driven abductive reasoning with prompt design optimized through reflective prompt evolution, and post-hoc…
  • Cross-model error analysis across 14 models (7~families) reveals three shared inductive biases: causal chain incompleteness, proximate cause preference, and salience bias, whose cross-family convergence (51\% cause-count reduction)…
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