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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

Teaching LLMs Brazilian Healthcare: Injecting Knowledge from Official Clinical Guidelines

Hugo Abonizio, Filipe Rocha Lopes, Roberto Lotufo +1

Brazil's Unified Health System (SUS) relies on official clinical guidelines that define diagnostic criteria, treatments, dosages, and monitoring procedures for over 200 million cit…

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.CL2025

PoETa v2: Toward More Robust Evaluation of Large Language Models in Portuguese

Thales Sales Almeida, Ramon Pires, Hugo Abonizio +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit significant variations in performance across linguistic and cultural contexts, underscoring the need for systematic evaluation in diverse langu…

cs.CL2025

Comparing Knowledge Injection Methods for LLMs in a Low-Resource Regime

Hugo Abonizio, Thales Almeida, Roberto Lotufo +1

Large language models (LLMs) often require vast amounts of text to effectively acquire new knowledge. While continuing pre-training on large corpora or employing retrieval-augmente…

cs.CL2025

TiEBe: Tracking Language Model Recall of Notable Worldwide Events Through Time

Thales Sales Almeida, Giovana Kerche Bonás, João Guilherme Alves Santos +2

As the knowledge landscape evolves and large language models (LLMs) become increasingly widespread, there is a growing need to keep these models updated with current events. While…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Sabiá-3 Technical Report

Hugo Abonizio, Thales Sales Almeida, Thiago Laitz +4

This report presents Sabiá-3, our new flagship language model, and Sabiazinho-3, a more cost-effective sibling. The models were trained on a large brazilian-centric corpus. Evaluat…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Sabiá-2: A New Generation of Portuguese Large Language Models

Thales Sales Almeida, Hugo Abonizio, Rodrigo Nogueira +1

We introduce Sabiá-2, a family of large language models trained on Portuguese texts. The models are evaluated on a diverse range of exams, including entry-level tests for Brazilian…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Evaluating GPT-4's Vision Capabilities on Brazilian University Admission Exams

Ramon Pires, Thales Sales Almeida, Hugo Abonizio +1

Recent advancements in language models have showcased human-comparable performance in academic entrance exams. However, existing studies often overlook questions that require the i…

cs.CL2023★ 66 cited

Sabiá: Portuguese Large Language Models

Ramon Pires, Hugo Abonizio, Thales Sales Almeida +1

As the capabilities of language models continue to advance, it is conceivable that "one-size-fits-all" model will remain as the main paradigm. For instance, given the vast number o…

cs.CL2022

MonoByte: A Pool of Monolingual Byte-level Language Models

Hugo Abonizio, Leandro Rodrigues de Souza, Roberto Lotufo +1

The zero-shot cross-lingual ability of models pretrained on multilingual and even monolingual corpora has spurred many hypotheses to explain this intriguing empirical result. Howev…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Billions of Parameters Are Worth More Than In-domain Training Data: A case study in the Legal Case Entailment Task

Guilherme Moraes Rosa, Luiz Bonifacio, Vitor Jeronymo +3

Recent work has shown that language models scaled to billions of parameters, such as GPT-3, perform remarkably well in zero-shot and few-shot scenarios. In this work, we experiment…

cs.CL2022★ 20 cited

InPars: Data Augmentation for Information Retrieval using Large Language Models

Luiz Bonifacio, Hugo Abonizio, Marzieh Fadaee +1

The information retrieval community has recently witnessed a revolution due to large pretrained transformer models. Another key ingredient for this revolution was the MS MARCO data…