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most citedState-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: A taxonomy and review

70 citations · 74 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

Last Translation Benchmark

Vilém Zouhar, Niyati Bafna, Mukund Choudhary +263

For scientific progress, we need benchmarks that test the limits of state-of-the-art models, and evaluation methods that inform us about failure cases. As models get stronger, stan…

cs.AI2026

How to Interpret Agent Behavior

Jie Gao, Kaiser Sun, Jen-tse Huang +8

Autonomous agents such as Claude Code and Codex now operate for hours or even days. Understanding their runtime behavior has become critical for downstream tasks such as diagnosing…

cs.CL2026

What do Language Models Learn and When? The Implicit Curriculum Hypothesis

Emmy Liu, Kaiser Sun, Millicent Li +4

Large language models (LLMs) can perform remarkably complex tasks, yet the fine-grained details of how these capabilities emerge during pretraining remain poorly understood. Scalin…

cs.CL2026

Reading, Not Thinking: Understanding and Bridging the Modality Gap When Text Becomes Pixels in Multimodal LLMs

Kaiser Sun, Xiaochuang Yuan, Hongjun Liu +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can process text presented as images, yet they often perform worse than when the same content is provided as textual tokens. We systematica…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

FIRE-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on the Rediscovery of Scientific Insights

Zhen Wang, Fan Bai, Zhongyan Luo +9

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) promise to accelerate scientific discovery end-to-end, but rigorously evaluating their capacity for verifiable discovery r…

cs.CL2025

Task Matters: Knowledge Requirements Shape LLM Responses to Context-Memory Conflict

Kaiser Sun, Fan Bai, Mark Dredze

Large language models (LLMs) draw on both contextual information and parametric memory, yet these sources can conflict. Prior studies have largely examined this issue in contextual…

cs.CL2025

On the Failure of Latent State Persistence in Large Language Models

Jen-tse Huang, Kaiser Sun, Wenxuan Wang +1

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in reasoning, whether they can sustain persistent latent states remains under-explored. The capacity to maintain and manipulate unexpressed…

cs.CL2025

CLAIMCHECK: How Grounded are LLM Critiques of Scientific Papers?

Jiefu Ou, William Gantt Walden, Kate Sanders +13

A core part of scientific peer review involves providing expert critiques that directly assess the scientific claims a paper makes. While it is now possible to automatically genera…

cs.CL2024

Amuro and Char: Analyzing the Relationship between Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Kaiser Sun, Mark Dredze

The development of large language models leads to the formation of a pre-train-then-align paradigm, in which the model is typically pre-trained on a large text corpus and undergoes…

cs.CL2023

The Validity of Evaluation Results: Assessing Concurrence Across Compositionality Benchmarks

Kaiser Sun, Adina Williams, Dieuwke Hupkes

NLP models have progressed drastically in recent years, according to numerous datasets proposed to evaluate performance. Questions remain, however, about how particular dataset des…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Tokenization Consistency Matters for Generative Models on Extractive NLP Tasks

Kaiser Sun, Peng Qi, Yuhao Zhang +3

Generative models have been widely applied to solve extractive tasks, where parts of the input is extracted to form the desired output, and achieved significant success. For exampl…

cs.CL2022★ 70 cited

State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: A taxonomy and review

Dieuwke Hupkes, Mario Giulianelli, Verna Dankers +17

The ability to generalise well is one of the primary desiderata of natural language processing (NLP). Yet, what 'good generalisation' entails and how it should be evaluated is not…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Effective Attention Sheds Light On Interpretability

Kaiser Sun, Ana Marasović

An attention matrix of a transformer self-attention sublayer can provably be decomposed into two components and only one of them (effective attention) contributes to the model outp…