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Small Language Models as Judges for Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
Fengyu Xie, Yilun Zhao, Bingsen Chen +2
Rubric-based reinforcement learning extends RL beyond tasks with exact answers or rule-based verifiers by scoring responses against instance-specific criteria. However, this makes…
Measuring the Gap Between Human and LLM Research Ideas
Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan
LLMs are increasingly used to brainstorm research ideas, but existing evaluations mostly judge individual ideas by novelty, feasibility, or expert preference. We instead ask: how f…
Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks
Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou +39
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial for both assessing their capabilities and identifying safety or robustness issues prior to deployment. Reliably measuring abstrac…
AlphaResearch: Accelerating New Algorithm Discovery with Language Models
Zhaojian Yu, Kaiyue Feng, Yilun Zhao +3
LLMs have made significant progress in complex but easy-to-verify problems, yet they still struggle with discovering the unknown. In this paper, we present \textbf{AlphaResearch},…
FinLFQA: Evaluating Attributed Text Generation of LLMs in Financial Long-Form Question Answering
Yitao Long, Tiansheng Hu, Yilun Zhao +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate to long-form questions, producing plausible yet factually incorrect answers. A common mitigation strategy is to provide attribut…
MSRS: Evaluating Multi-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Rohan Phanse, Yijie Zhou, Kejian Shi +4
Retrieval-augmented systems are typically evaluated in settings where information required to answer the query can be found within a single source or the answer is short-form or fa…
AbGen: Evaluating Large Language Models in Ablation Study Design and Evaluation for Scientific Research
Yilun Zhao, Weiyuan Chen, Zhijian Xu +5
We introduce AbGen, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of LLMs in designing ablation studies for scientific research. AbGen consists of 1,500 expert-annotate…
Can Multimodal Foundation Models Understand Schematic Diagrams? An Empirical Study on Information-Seeking QA over Scientific Papers
Yilun Zhao, Chengye Wang, Chuhan Li +1
This paper introduces MISS-QA, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the ability of models to interpret schematic diagrams within scientific literature. MISS-QA com…
Can LLMs Identify Critical Limitations within Scientific Research? A Systematic Evaluation on AI Research Papers
Zhijian Xu, Yilun Zhao, Manasi Patwardhan +2
Peer review is fundamental to scientific research, but the growing volume of publications has intensified the challenges of this expertise-intensive process. While LLMs show promis…
SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks
Yilun Zhao, Kaiyan Zhang, Tiansheng Hu +15
We present SciArena, an open and collaborative platform for evaluating foundation models on scientific literature-grounded tasks. Unlike traditional benchmarks for scientific liter…
SUCEA: Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval for Adversarial Fact-checking through Claim Decomposition and Editing
Hongjun Liu, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan +1
Automatic fact-checking has recently received more attention as a means of combating misinformation. Despite significant advancements, fact-checking systems based on retrieval-augm…
Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective
Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Liyuan Geng +3
Large language model (LLM)-based embedding models, benefiting from large scale pre-training and post-training, have begun to surpass BERT and T5-based models on general-purpose tex…
Table-R1: Inference-Time Scaling for Table Reasoning
Zheyuan Yang, Lyuhao Chen, Arman Cohan +1
In this work, we present the first study to explore inference-time scaling on table reasoning tasks. We develop and evaluate two post-training strategies to enable inference-time s…
Z1: Efficient Test-time Scaling with Code
Zhaojian Yu, Yinghao Wu, Yilun Zhao +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve enhanced complex problem-solving through test-time computing scaling, yet this often entails longer contexts and numerous reasoning token c…
MCTS-RAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Yunhai Hu, Yilun Zhao, Chen Zhao +1
We introduce MCTS-RAG, a novel approach that enhances the reasoning capabilities of small language models on knowledge-intensive tasks by leveraging retrieval-augmented generation…
MedicalAgentsBench for Complex Medical Reasoning: Comparing Internalized Reasoning Models versus Externalized Agent-based Frameworks
Yanjun Shao, Xiangru Tang, Jiwoong Sohn +10
Complex medical reasoning requires integrating heterogeneous clinical evidence across multiple inference steps. Large language models (LLMs) now approach this through two routes: i…
ChemAgent: Self-updating Library in Large Language Models Improves Chemical Reasoning
Xiangru Tang, Tianyu Hu, Muyang Ye +9
Chemical reasoning usually involves complex, multi-step processes that demand precise calculations, where even minor errors can lead to cascading failures. Furthermore, large langu…
ChemSafetyBench: Benchmarking LLM Safety on Chemistry Domain
Haochen Zhao, Xiangru Tang, Ziran Yang +8
The advancement and extensive application of large language models (LLMs) have been remarkable, including their use in scientific research assistance. However, these models often g…
FinDVer: Explainable Claim Verification over Long and Hybrid-Content Financial Documents
Yilun Zhao, Yitao Long, Yuru Jiang +7
We introduce FinDVer, a comprehensive benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the explainable claim verification capabilities of LLMs in the context of understanding and analyz…
M3SciQA: A Multi-Modal Multi-Document Scientific QA Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models
Chuhan Li, Ziyao Shangguan, Yilun Zhao +3
Existing benchmarks for evaluating foundation models mainly focus on single-document, text-only tasks. However, they often fail to fully capture the complexity of research workflow…
ReIFE: Re-evaluating Instruction-Following Evaluation
Yixin Liu, Kejian Shi, Alexander R. Fabbri +5
The automatic evaluation of instruction following typically involves using large language models (LLMs) to assess response quality. However, there is a lack of comprehensive evalua…
Open-FinLLMs: Open Multimodal Large Language Models for Financial Applications
Jimin Huang, Mengxi Xiao, Dong Li +41
Financial LLMs hold promise for advancing financial tasks and domain-specific applications. However, they are limited by scarce corpora, weak multimodal capabilities, and narrow ev…
Step-Back Profiling: Distilling User History for Personalized Scientific Writing
Xiangru Tang, Xingyao Zhang, Yanjun Shao +6
Large language models (LLM) excel at a variety of natural language processing tasks, yet they struggle to generate personalized content for individuals, particularly in real-world…
Unveiling the Spectrum of Data Contamination in Language Models: A Survey from Detection to Remediation
Chunyuan Deng, Yilun Zhao, Yuzhao Heng +4
Data contamination has garnered increased attention in the era of large language models (LLMs) due to the reliance on extensive internet-derived training corpora. The issue of trai…