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cs.AI2026

Metric Match: A Subset Selection Approach to Evaluating LLM Judge Reliability

Alyssa Unell, Natalie Dullerud, Naomi Boneh +4

LLM judges are used to reduce the need for costly human labor in evaluating open-ended text generation. However, the reliability of these judges depends critically on their alignme…

cs.CL2026

Synthetic Data for any Differentiable Target

Tristan Thrush, Sung Min Park, Herman Brunborg +5

What are the limits of controlling language models via synthetic training data? We develop a reinforcement learning (RL) primitive, the Dataset Policy Gradient (DPG), which can pre…

cs.LG2026

Scaling Self-Play with Self-Guidance

Luke Bailey, Kaiyue Wen, Kefan Dong +2

LLM self-play algorithms are notable in that, in principle, nothing bounds their learning: a Conjecturer model creates problems for a Solver, and both improve together. However, in…

cs.LG2026

Data-efficient pre-training by scaling synthetic megadocs

Konwoo Kim, Suhas Kotha, Yejin Choi +3

Synthetic data augmentation has emerged as a promising solution when pre-training is constrained by data rather than compute. We study how to design synthetic data algorithms that…

cs.CL2026

Agentic Adversarial QA for Improving Domain-Specific LLMs

Vincent Grari, Ciprian Tomoiaga, Sylvain Lamprier +2

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite extensive pretraining on broad internet corpora, often struggle to adapt effectively to specialized domains. There is growing interest in fine…

cs.CL2025

Synthetic bootstrapped pretraining

Zitong Yang, Aonan Zhang, Hong Liu +4

We introduce Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining (SBP), a language model (LM) pretraining procedure that first learns a model of relations between documents from the pretraining dat…

cs.LG2025

Reasoning to Learn from Latent Thoughts

Yangjun Ruan, Neil Band, Chris J. Maddison +1

Compute scaling for language model (LM) pretraining has outpaced the growth of human-written texts, leading to concerns that data will become the bottleneck to LM scaling. To conti…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Synthetic continued pretraining

Zitong Yang, Neil Band, Shuangping Li +2

Pretraining on large-scale, unstructured internet text enables language models to acquire a significant amount of world knowledge. However, this knowledge acquisition is data-ineff…

cs.LG2024

Linguistic Calibration of Long-Form Generations

Neil Band, Xuechen Li, Tengyu Ma +1

Language models (LMs) may lead their users to make suboptimal downstream decisions when they confidently hallucinate. This issue can be mitigated by having the LM verbally convey t…

cs.LG2024

Language Models with Conformal Factuality Guarantees

Christopher Mohri, Tatsunori Hashimoto

Guaranteeing the correctness and factuality of language model (LM) outputs is a major open problem. In this work, we propose conformal factuality, a framework that can ensure high…