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most citedSummary of a Haystack: A Challenge to Long-Context LLMs and RAG Systems

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cs.CL2026

Redesigning and Auditing Deep Research Writing for Faithful Reports

Hiroaki Hayashi, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Prafulla Kumar Choubey +1

Rubric-based evaluations of deep-research (DR) systems often obscure fine-grained factual failures in generated reports. We introduce CLAIMPROBE, a claim-level audit that decompose…

cs.CL2026

InterviewSim: A Scalable Framework for Interview-Grounded Personality Simulation

Yu Li, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Yada Pruksachatkun +1

Simulating real personalities with large language models requires grounding generation in authentic personal data. Existing evaluation approaches rely on demographic surveys, perso…

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

UNIDOC-BENCH: A Unified Benchmark for Document-Centric Multimodal RAG

Xiangyu Peng, Can Qin, Zeyuan Chen +3

Multimodal retrieval-augmented Generation (MM-RAG) is a key approach for applying large language models (LLMs) and agents to real-world knowledge bases, yet current evaluations are…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

DeepTRACE: Auditing Deep Research AI Systems for Tracking Reliability Across Citations and Evidence

Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Philippe Laban, Yilun Zhou +3

Generative search engines and deep research LLM agents promise trustworthy, source-grounded synthesis, yet users regularly encounter overconfidence, weak sourcing, and confusing ci…

cs.CL2025

Benchmarking Deep Search over Heterogeneous Enterprise Data

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Xiangyu Peng, Shilpa Bhagavath +3

We present a new benchmark for evaluating Deep Search--a realistic and complex form of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that requires source-aware, multi-hop reasoning over div…

cs.CL2025

LAM SIMULATOR: Advancing Data Generation for Large Action Model Training via Online Exploration and Trajectory Feedback

Thai Hoang, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Shirley Kokane +12

Large Action Models (LAMs) for AI Agents offer incredible potential but face challenges due to the need for high-quality training data, especially for multi-steps tasks that involv…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Onkar Thorat +6

While AI agents hold transformative potential in business, effective performance benchmarking is hindered by the scarcity of public, realistic business data on widely used platform…

cs.CL2025

AI-Slop to AI-Polish? Aligning Language Models through Edit-Based Writing Rewards and Test-time Computation

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu

AI-generated text is proliferating across domains, from creative writing and journalism to marketing content and scientific articles. Models can follow user-provided instructions t…

cs.CL2025

BingoGuard: LLM Content Moderation Tools with Risk Levels

Fan Yin, Philippe Laban, Xiangyu Peng +7

Malicious content generated by large language models (LLMs) can pose varying degrees of harm. Although existing LLM-based moderators can detect harmful content, they struggle to as…

cs.CL2025

Turning Conversations into Workflows: A Framework to Extract and Evaluate Dialog Workflows for Service AI Agents

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Xiangyu Peng, Shilpa Bhagavath +3

Automated service agents require well-structured workflows to provide consistent and accurate responses to customer queries. However, these workflows are often undocumented, and th…

cs.CL2024

SummExecEdit: A Factual Consistency Benchmark in Summarization with Executable Edits

Onkar Thorat, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu

Detecting factual inconsistencies in summarization is critical, yet existing benchmarks lack the necessary challenge and interpretability for robust evaluation. In this paper, we i…

cs.CL2024

Unanswerability Evaluation for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Xiangyu Peng, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Caiming Xiong +1

Existing evaluation frameworks for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems focus on answerable queries, but they overlook the importance of appropriately rejecting unanswerabl…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SiReRAG: Indexing Similar and Related Information for Multihop Reasoning

Nan Zhang, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Alexander Fabbri +5

Indexing is an important step towards strong performance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. However, existing methods organize data based on either semantic similarit…

cs.CL2024

CRMArena: Understanding the Capacity of LLM Agents to Perform Professional CRM Tasks in Realistic Environments

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Sidharth Dhawan +6

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are vital for modern enterprises, providing a foundation for managing customer interactions and data. Integrating AI agents into CRM…

cs.CL2024

Do RAG Systems Cover What Matters? Evaluating and Optimizing Responses with Sub-Question Coverage

Kaige Xie, Philippe Laban, Prafulla Kumar Choubey +2

Evaluating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems remains challenging, particularly for open-ended questions that lack definitive answers and require coverage of multiple sub…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Search Engines in an AI Era: The False Promise of Factual and Verifiable Source-Cited Responses

Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Philippe Laban, Yilun Zhou +2

Large Language Model (LLM)-based applications are graduating from research prototypes to products serving millions of users, influencing how people write and consume information. A…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Scaling Knowledge Graph Construction through Synthetic Data Generation and Distillation

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Xin Su, Man Luo +9

Document-level knowledge graph (KG) construction faces a fundamental scaling challenge: existing methods either rely on expensive large language models (LLMs), making them economic…

cs.CL2024

ReGenesis: LLMs can Grow into Reasoning Generalists via Self-Improvement

Xiangyu Peng, Congying Xia, Xinyi Yang +3

Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with explicit reasoning trajectories can enhance their reasoning abilities. However, acquiring such high-quality trajectory data typicall…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Can AI writing be salvaged? Mitigating Idiosyncrasies and Improving Human-AI Alignment in the Writing Process through Edits

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu

LLM-based applications are helping people write, and LLM-generated text is making its way into social media, journalism, and our classrooms. However, the differences between LLM-ge…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Shared Imagination: LLMs Hallucinate Alike

Yilun Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese +1

Despite the recent proliferation of large language models (LLMs), their training recipes -- model architecture, pre-training data and optimization algorithm -- are often very simil…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Summary of a Haystack: A Challenge to Long-Context LLMs and RAG Systems

Philippe Laban, Alexander R. Fabbri, Caiming Xiong +1

LLMs and RAG systems are now capable of handling millions of input tokens or more. However, evaluating the output quality of such systems on long-context tasks remains challenging,…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Prompt Leakage effect and defense strategies for multi-turn LLM interactions

Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Ben Risher +3

Prompt leakage poses a compelling security and privacy threat in LLM applications. Leakage of system prompts may compromise intellectual property, and act as adversarial reconnaiss…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Benchmarking Generation and Evaluation Capabilities of Large Language Models for Instruction Controllable Summarization

Yixin Liu, Alexander R. Fabbri, Jiawen Chen +7

While large language models (LLMs) can already achieve strong performance on standard generic summarization benchmarks, their performance on more complex summarization task setting…