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cs.CL2026

MMedAgent-Plus: Scaling Multimodal Medical Agents across Modalities, Tasks and Workflows

Ruoxin Wang, Yuanting Pan, Binxu Li +13

Medical workflows often require multiple interdependent analyses, but existing specialist and generalist AI models are not designed to coordinate them. We introduce MMedAgent-Plus,…

cs.CL2026

VisEditBench: Can Vision-Language Models Edit Visualization Code from Multimodal Feedback?

Mizanur Rahman, Arshia Azimlu, Shadikur Rahman +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities in generating visualization code from textual or visual specifications. However, real-world visualization authoring is…

cs.CL2026

References Improve LLM Alignment in Non-Verifiable Domains

Kejian Shi, Yixin Liu, Peifeng Wang +3

While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has shown strong effectiveness in reasoning tasks, it cannot be directly applied to non-verifiable domains lacking groun…

cs.CL2025

SMILE: A Composite Lexical-Semantic Metric for Question-Answering Evaluation

Shrikant Kendre, Austin Xu, Honglu Zhou +3

Traditional evaluation metrics for textual and visual question answering, like ROUGE, METEOR, and Exact Match (EM), focus heavily on n-gram based lexical similarity, often missing…

cs.CL2025

Foundational Automatic Evaluators: Scaling Multi-Task Generative Evaluator Training for Reasoning-Centric Domains

Austin Xu, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Yilun Zhou +3

Finetuning specialized generative evaluators has emerged as a popular paradigm to meet the increasing demand for scalable evaluation during both training and test-time. However, re…

cs.CL2025

Synthesizing Agentic Data for Web Agents with Progressive Difficulty Enhancement Mechanisms

Shrey Pandit, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Yifei Ming +4

Web-based 'deep research' agents aim to solve complex question - answering tasks through long-horizon interactions with online tools. These tasks remain challenging, as the underly…

cs.CL2025

Topic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with LLMs for Enhancing Multi-Document Summarization

Chuyuan Li, Austin Xu, Shafiq Joty +1

A key challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is effectively integrating information from multiple sources while maintaining coherence and topical relevance. While Large La…

cs.CL2025

On the Shelf Life of Fine-Tuned LLM-Judges: Future-Proofing, Backward-Compatibility, and Question Generalization

Janvijay Singh, Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou +3

The LLM-as-a-judge paradigm is widely used in both evaluating free-text model responses and reward modeling for model alignment and fine-tuning. Recently, fine-tuning judges with j…

cs.CL2025

Variation in Verification: Understanding Verification Dynamics in Large Language Models

Yefan Zhou, Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou +3

Recent advances have shown that scaling test-time computation enables large language models (LLMs) to solve increasingly complex problems across diverse domains. One effective para…

cs.CL2025

J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy Optimization

Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, Xuan-Phi Nguyen +2

To keep pace with the increasing pace of large language models (LLM) development, model output evaluation has transitioned away from time-consuming human evaluation to automatic ev…

cs.CL2025

The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language

Yuxin Chen, Yiran Zhao, Yang Zhang +7

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, their capacity to function effectively across a diverse range of languages has shown marked improvement. Preliminary studies ob…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

What Makes a Good Natural Language Prompt?

Do Xuan Long, Duy Dinh, Ngoc-Hai Nguyen +4

As large language models (LLMs) have progressed towards more human-like and human--AI communications have become prevalent, prompting has emerged as a decisive component. However,…

cs.CL2025

Beyond In-Context Learning: Aligning Long-form Generation of Large Language Models via Task-Inherent Attribute Guidelines

Do Xuan Long, Duong Ngoc Yen, Do Xuan Trong +5

In-context learning (ICL) is an important yet not fully understood ability of pre-trained large language models (LLMs). It can greatly enhance task performance using a few examples…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Judges as Evaluators: The JETTS Benchmark of LLM-as-Judges as Test-Time Scaling Evaluators

Yilun Zhou, Austin Xu, Peifeng Wang +2

Scaling test-time computation, or affording a generator large language model (LLM) extra compute during inference, typically employs the help of external non-generative evaluators…

cs.CL2025

MAS-ZERO: Designing Multi-Agent Systems with Zero Supervision

Zixuan Ke, Austin Xu, Yifei Ming +4

Multi-agent systems (MAS) leveraging the impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant potential for tackling complex tasks. However, most current MAS de…

cs.CL2025

Judging the Judges: Can Large Vision-Language Models Fairly Evaluate Chart Comprehension and Reasoning?

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub +7

Charts are ubiquitous as they help people understand and reason with data. Recently, various downstream tasks, such as chart question answering, chart2text, and fact-checking, have…

cs.CL2025

NAACL2025 Tutorial: Adaptation of Large Language Models

Zixuan Ke, Yifei Ming, Shafiq Joty

This tutorial on adaptation of LLMs is designed to address the growing demand for models that go beyond the static capabilities of generic LLMs by providing an overview of dynamic,…

cs.CL2025

Does Context Matter? ContextualJudgeBench for Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Contextual Settings

Austin Xu, Srijan Bansal, Yifei Ming +2

The large language model (LLM)-as-judge paradigm has been used to meet the demand for a cheap, reliable, and fast evaluation of model outputs during AI system development and post-…

cs.CL2025

Demystifying Domain-adaptive Post-training for Financial LLMs

Zixuan Ke, Yifei Ming, Xuan-Phi Nguyen +2

Domain-adaptive post-training of large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach for specialized domains such as medicine and finance. However, significant challen…

cs.CL2024

StructTest: Benchmarking LLMs' Reasoning through Compositional Structured Outputs

Hailin Chen, Fangkai Jiao, Mathieu Ravaut +8

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) demands robust, unbiased, and scalable evaluation methods. However, human annotations are costly to scale, model-based evaluat…

cs.CL2024

Preference Optimization for Reasoning with Pseudo Feedback

Fangkai Jiao, Geyang Guo, Xingxing Zhang +3

Preference optimization techniques, such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), are frequently employed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in d…

cs.CL2024

Investigating Factuality in Long-Form Text Generation: The Roles of Self-Known and Self-Unknown

Lifu Tu, Rui Meng, Shafiq Joty +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in text understanding and generation. However, they often lack factuality, producing a mixture of true and false…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

JudgeRank: Leveraging Large Language Models for Reasoning-Intensive Reranking

Tong Niu, Shafiq Joty, Ye Liu +3

Accurate document retrieval is crucial for the success of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, including open-domain question answering and code completion. While lar…

cs.CL2024

ReIFE: Re-evaluating Instruction-Following Evaluation

Yixin Liu, Kejian Shi, Alexander R. Fabbri +5

The automatic evaluation of instruction following typically involves using large language models (LLMs) to assess response quality. However, there is a lack of comprehensive evalua…