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most citedThe Chronicles of RAG: The Retriever, the Chunk and the Generator

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cs.CL2026

LLM-Based Persuasion Enables Guardrail Override in Frontier LLMs

Rodrigo Nogueira, Thales Sales Almeida, Giovana Kerche Bonás +7

Frontier assistant LLMs ship with strong guardrails: asked directly to write a persuasive essay denying the Holocaust, denying vaccine safety, defending flat-earth cosmology, argui…

cs.CL2026

Magis-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Magistrate-Level Legal Tasks

Ramon Pires, Thales Sales Almeida, Celio Larcher Junior +6

Existing benchmarks for legal AI focus primarily on tasks where LLMs must produce legal arguments or documents, yet the capacity to \emph{judge} such arguments -- weighing competin…

cs.CL2026

Prosa: Rubric-Based Evaluation of LLMs on Real User Chats in Brazilian Portuguese

Roseval Malaquias Junior, Giovana Kerche Bonás, Thales Sales Almeida +6

Rankings produced by holistic LLM-as-a-judge scoring are sensitive to the bias of the chosen judge model. We show that switching to binary rubric scoring with multi-judge filtering…

cs.CL2026

Measuring Opinion Bias and Sycophancy via LLM-based Persuasion

Rodrigo Nogueira, Giovana Kerche Bonás, Thales Sales Almeida +7

Large language models increasingly shape the information people consume: they are embedded in search, consulted for professional advice, deployed as agents, and used as a first sto…

cs.CL2026

MARCA: A Checklist-Based Benchmark for Multilingual Web Search

Thales Sales Almeida, Giovana Kerche Bonás, Ramon Pires +6

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as sources of information, yet their reliability depends on the ability to search the web, select relevant evidence, and synthesi…

cs.CL2026

CAPITU: A Benchmark for Evaluating Instruction-Following in Brazilian Portuguese with Literary Context

Giovana Kerche Bonás, Roseval Malaquias Junior, Marcos Piau +6

We introduce CAPITU, a benchmark for evaluating instruction-following capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Brazilian Portuguese. Unlike existing benchmarks that focus on…

cs.CL2026

Sabiá-4 Technical Report

Thiago Laitz, Thales Sales Almeida, Hugo Abonizio +6

This technical report presents Sabiá-4 and Sabiazinho-4, a new generation of Portuguese language models with a focus on Brazilian Portuguese language. The models were developed thr…

cs.CL2024

ptt5-v2: A Closer Look at Continued Pretraining of T5 Models for the Portuguese Language

Marcos Piau, Roberto Lotufo, Rodrigo Nogueira

Despite advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the growing availability of pretrained models, the English language remains the primary focus of model development. Co…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Cabrita: closing the gap for foreign languages

Celio Larcher, Marcos Piau, Paulo Finardi +3

The strategy of training the model from scratch in a specific language or domain serves two essential purposes: i) enhancing performance in the particular linguistic or domain cont…

cs.CL2020★ 10 cited

PTT5: Pretraining and validating the T5 model on Brazilian Portuguese data

Diedre Carmo, Marcos Piau, Israel Campiotti +2

In natural language processing (NLP), there is a need for more resources in Portuguese, since much of the data used in the state-of-the-art research is in other languages. In this…