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cs.CL2026

BLUEX v2: Benchmarking LLMs on Open-Ended Questions from Brazilian University Entrance Exams

João Guilherme Alves Santos, Giovana Kerche Bonás, Thiago Laitz +2

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in many tasks, their assessment in Portuguese has received less attention, particularly for open-ended, discursive tasks that demand dee…

cs.CL2026

moBERTo: A Modern Encoder for Portuguese via Continued Pretraining of ModernBERT

Thiago Laitz, Thales Sales Almeida, João Guilherme Alves Santos +1

Encoder-only transformer models remain essential for production NLP pipelines. We introduce moBERTo, a Portuguese adaptation of ModernBERT obtained through continued pretraining of…

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.CL2025

Ticket-Bench: A Kickoff for Multilingual and Regionalized Agent Evaluation

Thales Sales Almeida, João Guilherme Alves Santos, Thiago Laitz +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as task-oriented agents, where success depends on their ability to generate accurate function calls under realistic, multilin…

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

SurveySum: A Dataset for Summarizing Multiple Scientific Articles into a Survey Section

Leandro Carísio Fernandes, Gustavo Bartz Guedes, Thiago Soares Laitz +4

Document summarization is a task to shorten texts into concise and informative summaries. This paper introduces a novel dataset designed for summarizing multiple scientific article…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

BLUEX: A benchmark based on Brazilian Leading Universities Entrance eXams

Thales Sales Almeida, Thiago Laitz, Giovana K. Bonás +1

One common trend in recent studies of language models (LMs) is the use of standardized tests for evaluation. However, despite being the fifth most spoken language worldwide, few su…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

ExaRanker: Explanation-Augmented Neural Ranker

Fernando Ferraretto, Thiago Laitz, Roberto Lotufo +1

Recent work has shown that inducing a large language model (LLM) to generate explanations prior to outputting an answer is an effective strategy to improve performance on a wide ra…