- Fine-Tuning Without Forgetting In-Context Learning: A Theoretical Analysis of Linear Attention Models
Chungpa Lee, Jy-yong Sohn, Kangwook Lee · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Transformer-based large language models exhibit in-context learning, enabling adaptation to downstream tasks via few-shot prompting with demonstrations.
- AuditBench: Evaluating Alignment Auditing Techniques on Models with Hidden Behaviors
Abhay Sheshadri, Aidan Ewart, Kai Fronsdal, Isha Gupta, Samuel R. Bowman · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We introduce AuditBench, an alignment auditing benchmark.
- FewMMBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Few-Shot Learning
Mustafa Dogan, Ilker Kesen, Iacer Calixto, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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In this paper, we introduce FewMMBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate MLLMs under few-shot conditions, with a focus on In-Context Learning (ICL) and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting.
- Explore-on-Graph: Incentivizing Autonomous Exploration of Large Language Models on Knowledge Graphs with Path-refined Reward Modeling
Shiqi Yan, Yubo Chen, Ruiqi Zhou, Zhengxi Yao, Shuai Chen · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Extensive experiments on five KGQA benchmark datasets demonstrate that, to the best of our knowledge, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming not only open-source but also even closed-source LLMs.
- RuCL: Stratified Rubric-Based Curriculum Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning
Yukun Chen, Jiaming Li, Longze Chen, Ze Gong, Jingpeng Li · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Extensive experiments on various visual reasoning benchmarks show that RuCL yields a remarkable +7.83% average improvement over the Qwen2.5-VL-7B model, achieving a state-of-the-art accuracy of 60.06%.
- SibylSense: Adaptive Rubric Learning via Memory Tuning and Adversarial Probing
Yifei Xu, Guilherme Potje, Shivam Shandilya, Tiancheng Yuan, Leonardo de Oliveira Nunes · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Designing aligned and robust rewards for open-ended generation remains a key barrier to RL post-training.
- Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik Sharma, David C Parkes · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Effective human-AI coordination requires artificial agents capable of exhibiting and responding to human-like behaviors while adapting to changing contexts.
- Personalized Prediction of Perceived Message Effectiveness Using Large Language Model Based Digital Twins
Jasmin Han, Janardan Devkota, Joseph Waring, Amanda Luken, Felix Naughton · Feb 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Perceived message effectiveness (PME) by potential intervention end-users is important for selecting and optimizing personalized smoking cessation intervention messages for mobile health (mHealth) platform delivery.
- KLong: Training LLM Agent for Extremely Long-horizon Tasks
Yue Liu, Zhiyuan Hu, Flood Sung, Jiaheng Zhang, Bryan Hooi · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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This paper introduces KLong, an open-source LLM agent trained to solve extremely long-horizon tasks.
- Quantifying and Mitigating Socially Desirable Responding in LLMs: A Desirability-Matched Graded Forced-Choice Psychometric Study
Kensuke Okada, Yui Furukawa, Kyosuke Bunji · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Human self-report questionnaires are increasingly used in NLP to benchmark and audit large language models (LLMs), from persona consistency to safety and bias assessments.
- From Labor to Collaboration: A Methodological Experiment Using AI Agents to Augment Research Perspectives in Taiwan's Humanities and Social Sciences
Yi-Chih Huang · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Generative AI is reshaping knowledge work, yet existing research focuses predominantly on software engineering and the natural sciences, with limited methodological exploration for the humanities and social sciences.
- Perspectives - Interactive Document Clustering in the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite
Tim Fischer, Chris Biemann · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
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This paper introduces Perspectives, an interactive extension of the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite designed to empower Digital Humanities (DH) scholars to explore and organize large, unstructured document collections.
- Orchestration-Free Customer Service Automation: A Privacy-Preserving and Flowchart-Guided Framework
Mengze Hong, Chen Jason Zhang, Zichang Guo, Hanlin Gu, Di Jiang · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Existing approaches either rely on modular system designs with extensive agent orchestration or employ over-simplified instruction schemas, providing limited guidance and poor generalizability.
- Discovering Implicit Large Language Model Alignment Objectives
Edward Chen, Sanmi Koyejo, Carlos Guestrin · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
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To address these limitations, we introduce Obj-Disco, a framework that automatically decomposes an alignment reward signal into a sparse, weighted combination of human-interpretable natural language objectives.
- Multi-Agent Comedy Club: Investigating Community Discussion Effects on LLM Humor Generation
Shiwei Hong, Lingyao Li, Ethan Z. Rong, Chenxinran Shen, Zhicong Lu · Feb 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Prior work has explored multi-turn interaction and feedback for LLM writing, but evaluations still largely center on prompts and localized feedback, leaving persistent public reception in online communities underexamined.
- Small Reward Models via Backward Inference
Yike Wang, Faeze Brahman, Shangbin Feng, Teng Xiao, Hannaneh Hajishirzi · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
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However, the dominant LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm relies on the strong reasoning capabilities of large models, while alternative approaches require reference responses or explicit rubrics, limiting flexibility and broader accessibility.
- The Subjectivity of Respect in Police Traffic Stops: Modeling Community Perspectives in Body-Worn Camera Footage
Preni Golazizian, Elnaz Rahmati, Jackson Trager, Zhivar Sourati, Nona Ghazizadeh · Feb 10, 2026 · Citations: 0
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To this end, we (i) develop a domain-specific evaluation rubric grounded in procedural justice theory, LAPD training materials, and extensive fieldwork; (ii) introduce a rubric-driven preference data construction framework for perspective-c
- Document Reconstruction Unlocks Scalable Long-Context RLVR
Yao Xiao, Lei Wang, Yue Deng, Guanzheng Chen, Ziqi Jin · Feb 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
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However, it often relies on gold-standard answers or explicit evaluation rubrics provided by powerful teacher models or human experts, which are costly and time-consuming.
- APEX-Agents
Bertie Vidgen, Austin Mann, Abby Fennelly, John Wright Stanly, Lucas Rothman · Jan 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We introduce the AI Productivity Index for Agents (APEX-Agents), a benchmark for assessing whether AI agents can execute long-horizon, cross-application tasks created by investment banking analysts, management consultants, and corporate law
- Cross-Cultural Expert-Level Art Critique Evaluation with Vision-Language Models
Haorui Yu, Xuehang Wen, Fengrui Zhang, Qiufeng Yi · Jan 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Existing benchmarks assess perception without interpretation, and common evaluation proxies, such as automated metrics and LLM-judge averaging, are unreliable for culturally sensitive generative tasks.
- HEART: A Unified Benchmark for Assessing Humans and LLMs in Emotional Support Dialogue
Laya Iyer, Kriti Aggarwal, Sanmi Koyejo, Gail Heyman, Desmond C. Ong · Jan 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Despite rapid progress in language models, we still lack a clear way to understand how their abilities in these interpersonal domains compare to those of humans.
- AITutor-EvalKit: Exploring the Capabilities of AI Tutors
Numaan Naeem, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Kseniia Petukhova, Ekaterina Kochmar · Dec 3, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We present AITutor-EvalKit, an application that uses language technology to evaluate the pedagogical quality of AI tutors, provides software for demonstration and evaluation, as well as model inspection and data visualization.
- Supervised Reinforcement Learning: From Expert Trajectories to Step-wise Reasoning
Yihe Deng, I-Hung Hsu, Jun Yan, Zifeng Wang, Rujun Han · Oct 29, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Beyond reasoning benchmarks, SRL generalizes effectively to agentic software engineering tasks, establishing it as a robust and versatile training framework for reasoning-oriented LLMs.
- PoSh: Using Scene Graphs To Guide LLMs-as-a-Judge For Detailed Image Descriptions
Amith Ananthram, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Lorena A. Bradford, Julia Demarest, Adam Purvis · Oct 21, 2025 · Citations: 0
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While vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced into detailed image description, evaluation remains a challenge.
- MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints for Multi-Step Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
Chengshu Li, Mengdi Xu, Arpit Bahety, Hang Yin, Yunfan Jiang · Oct 21, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Imitation learning from large-scale, diverse human demonstrations has been shown to be effective for training robots, but collecting such data is costly and time-consuming.
- SPACeR: Self-Play Anchoring with Centralized Reference Models
Wei-Jer Chang, Akshay Rangesh, Kevin Joseph, Matthew Strong, Masayoshi Tomizuka · Oct 20, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) requires not only safety and efficiency, but also realistic, human-like behaviors that are socially aware and predictable.
- Toward LLM-Supported Automated Assessment of Critical Thinking Subskills
Marisa C. Peczuh, Nischal Ashok Kumar, Ryan Baker, Blair Lehman, Danielle Eisenberg · Oct 14, 2025 · Citations: 0
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As the world becomes increasingly saturated with AI-generated content, disinformation, and algorithmic persuasion, critical thinking - the capacity to evaluate evidence, detect unreliable claims, and exercise independent judgment - is becom
- Mapping Semantic & Syntactic Relationships with Geometric Rotation
Michael Freenor, Lauren Alvarez · Oct 10, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Understanding how language and embedding models encode semantic relationships is fundamental to model interpretability.
- Chasing the Tail: Effective Rubric-based Reward Modeling for Large Language Model Post-Training
Junkai Zhang, Zihao Wang, Lin Gui, Swarnashree Mysore Sathyendra, Jaehwan Jeong · Sep 25, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) often suffers from reward over-optimization, where a policy model hacks the reward signals to achieve high scores while producing low-quality outputs.
- Programming by Backprop: An Instruction is Worth 100 Examples When Finetuning LLMs
Jonathan Cook, Silvia Sapora, Arash Ahmadian, Akbir Khan, Tim Rocktaschel · Jun 23, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Though execution of instructions in training data remains less reliable than when instructions are given in-context, our results demonstrate that procedural knowledge can be noisily `programmed' into LLMs through PBB, with important implica
- A Scalable Framework for Evaluating Health Language Models
Neil Mallinar, A. Ali Heydari, Xin Liu, Anthony Z. Faranesh, Brent Winslow · Mar 30, 2025 · Citations: 0
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As LLM-driven health applications are increasingly adopted, rigorous and efficient one-sided evaluation methodologies are crucial to ensure response quality across multiple dimensions, including accuracy, personalization and safety.
- Oracular Programming: A Modular Foundation for Building LLM-Enabled Software
Jonathan Laurent, André Platzer · Feb 7, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Large Language Models can solve a wide range of tasks from just a few examples, but they remain difficult to steer and lack a capability essential for building reliable software at scale: the modular composition of computations under enforc