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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Improving LLMs via Validator-to-Generator Alignment

Juan Diego Rodriguez, Jocelyn Zhang, Katrin Erk +1

Large language models are inconsistent: varying prompts or including unrelated information can lead to unexpected changes in model outputs. The generator-validator (G-V) gap is one…

cs.CL2026

ChartMuseum: Testing Visual Reasoning Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models

Liyan Tang, Grace Kim, Xinyu Zhao +12

Chart understanding presents a unique challenge for large vision-language models (LVLMs), as it requires the integration of sophisticated textual and visual reasoning capabilities.…

cs.CL2025

RankAlign: A Ranking View of the Generator-Validator Gap in Large Language Models

Juan Diego Rodriguez, Wenxuan Ding, Katrin Erk +1

Although large language models (LLMs) have become more capable and accurate across many tasks, some fundamental sources of unreliability remain in their behavior. One key limitatio…

cs.CL2025

KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning

Peiqi Sui, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Philippe Laban +5

Each year, tens of millions of essays are written and graded in college-level English courses. Students are asked to analyze literary and cultural texts through a process known as…

cs.CL2025

Parameterized Synthetic Text Generation with SimpleStories

Lennart Finke, Chandan Sreedhara, Thomas Dooms +6

We present SimpleStories, a large synthetic story dataset in simple language, consisting of 2 million samples each in English and Japanese. Through parameterizing prompts at multip…

cs.CL2025

To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning

Zayne Sprague, Fangcong Yin, Juan Diego Rodriguez +7

Chain-of-thought (CoT) via prompting is the de facto method for eliciting reasoning capabilities from large language models (LLMs). But for what kinds of tasks is this extra ``thin…