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most citedEvaluating Language Models as Synthetic Data Generators

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cs.CL2026

Amplified Does Not Mean Predictive: Reasoning Behaviors in Thinking Models

Jean de Dieu Nyandwi, Leena Mathur, Yonatan Bisk +2

Which reasoning behaviors are associated with correct answers in reasoning models, and does reasoning-oriented training amplify those behaviors? This distinction is important becau…

cs.CL2026

Cracks in the Foundation: Seemingly Minor Architectural Choices Impact Long Context Extension

Amanda Bertsch, Luca Soldaini, Matthew R. Gormley +4

One might imagine that architectural variations within the dense transformer paradigm have a limited effect on accuracy. However, we demonstrate that this is not the case in the lo…

cs.LG2026

Decomposer: Learning to Decompile Symbolic Music to Programs

Yewon Kim, Apurva Gandhi, David Chung +2

Musical performance involves executing a set of high-level musical instructions, yet recovering those instructions from the performance is a challenging inverse problem. We present…

cs.CL2026

On the limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature-family papers with 45 expert scientists

Seungone Kim, Dongkeun Yoon, Kiril Gashteovski +55

With the advancement of AI capabilities, AI reviewers are beginning to be deployed in scientific peer review, yet their capability and credibility remain in question: many scientis…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcing Human Behavior Simulation via Verbal Feedback

Weiwei Sun, Xuhui Zhou, Jiarui Liu +13

Humans learn social norms and behaviors from verbal feedback (e.g., a parent saying "that was rude" or a friend explaining "here's why that hurt"). Yet, learning from feedback for…

cs.CL2026

Soohak: A Mathematician-Curated Benchmark for Evaluating Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs

Guijin Son, Seungone Kim, Catherine Arnett +73

Following the recent achievement of gold-medal performance on the IMO by frontier LLMs, the community is searching for the next meaningful and challenging target for measuring LLM…

cs.AI2026

Reasoning over mathematical objects: on-policy reward modeling and test time aggregation

Pranjal Aggarwal, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Seungone Kim +18

The ability to precisely derive mathematical objects is a core requirement for downstream STEM applications, including mathematics, physics, and chemistry, where reasoning must cul…

cs.CL2026

Gained in Translation: Privileged Pairwise Judges Enhance Multilingual Reasoning

Lintang Sutawika, Gokul Swamy, Zhiwei Steven Wu +1

When asked a question in a language less seen in its training data, current reasoning large language models (RLMs) often exhibit dramatically lower performance than when asked the…

cs.CL2025

On the Interplay of Pre-Training, Mid-Training, and RL on Reasoning Language Models

Charlie Zhang, Graham Neubig, Xiang Yue

Recent reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have yielded impressive reasoning improvements in language models, yet it remains unclear whether post-training truly extends a model'…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

RefineBench: Evaluating Refinement Capability of Language Models via Checklists

Young-Jun Lee, Seungone Kim, Byung-Kwan Lee +6

Can language models (LMs) self-refine their own responses? This question is increasingly relevant as a wide range of real-world user interactions involve refinement requests. Howev…

cs.LG2025

TowerVision: Understanding and Improving Multilinguality in Vision-Language Models

André G. Viveiros, Patrick Fernandes, Saul Santos +7

Despite significant advances in vision-language models (VLMs), most existing work follows an English-centric design process, limiting their effectiveness in multilingual settings.…

cs.CL2025

Oolong: Evaluating Long Context Reasoning and Aggregation Capabilities

Amanda Bertsch, Adithya Pratapa, Teruko Mitamura +2

As model context lengths continue to grow, concerns about whether models effectively use the full context length have persisted. While several carefully designed long-context evalu…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models

Jiayi Geng, Howard Chen, Ryan Liu +4

Language model (LM) assistants are increasingly used in applications such as brainstorming and research. Improvements in memory and context size have allowed these models to become…

cs.CL2025

Prompt-MII: Meta-Learning Instruction Induction for LLMs

Emily Xiao, Yixiao Zeng, Ada Chen +3

A popular method to adapt large language models (LLMs) to new tasks is in-context learning (ICL), which is effective but incurs high inference costs as context length grows. In thi…

cs.CL2025

The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution

Junlong Li, Wenshuo Zhao, Jian Zhao +18

Real-world language agents must handle complex, multi-step workflows across diverse Apps. For instance, an agent may manage emails by coordinating with calendars and file systems,…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning

Maggie Huan, Yuetai Li, Tuney Zheng +6

Math reasoning has become the poster child of progress in large language models (LLMs), with new models rapidly surpassing human-level performance on benchmarks like MATH and AIME.…

cs.CL2025

The CoT Encyclopedia: Analyzing, Predicting, and Controlling how a Reasoning Model will Think

Seongyun Lee, Seungone Kim, Minju Seo +9

Long chain-of-thought (CoT) is an essential ingredient in effective usage of modern large language models, but our understanding of the reasoning strategies underlying these capabi…

cs.CL2025

VisualPuzzles: Decoupling Multimodal Reasoning Evaluation from Domain Knowledge

Yueqi Song, Tianyue Ou, Yibo Kong +3

Current multimodal benchmarks often conflate reasoning with domain-specific knowledge, making it difficult to isolate and evaluate general reasoning abilities in non-expert setting…

cs.CL2025

Do LLMs Understand Your Translations? Evaluating Paragraph-level MT with Question Answering

Patrick Fernandes, Sweta Agrawal, Emmanouil Zaranis +2

Despite the steady progress in machine translation evaluation, existing automatic metrics struggle to capture how well meaning is preserved beyond sentence boundaries. We posit tha…

cs.CL2025

M-Prometheus: A Suite of Open Multilingual LLM Judges

José Pombal, Dongkeun Yoon, Patrick Fernandes +5

The use of language models for automatically evaluating long-form text (LLM-as-a-judge) is becoming increasingly common, yet most LLM judges are optimized exclusively for English,…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Overtrained Language Models Are Harder to Fine-Tune

Jacob Mitchell Springer, Sachin Goyal, Kaiyue Wen +5

Large language models are pre-trained on ever-growing token budgets under the assumption that better pre-training performance translates to improved downstream models. In this work…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Many-Shot In-Context Learning with Dynamic Block-Sparse Attention

Emily Xiao, Chin-Jou Li, Yilin Zhang +2

Many-shot in-context learning has recently shown promise as an alternative to finetuning, with the major advantage that the same model can be served for multiple tasks. However, th…

cs.CL2025

Scaling Evaluation-time Compute with Reasoning Models as Evaluators

Seungone Kim, Ian Wu, Jinu Lee +8

As language model (LM) outputs get more and more natural, it is becoming more difficult than ever to evaluate their quality. Simultaneously, increasing LMs' "thinking" time through…

cs.CL2025

Not-Just-Scaling Laws: Towards a Better Understanding of the Downstream Impact of Language Model Design Decisions

Emmy Liu, Amanda Bertsch, Lintang Sutawika +9

Improvements in language model capabilities are often attributed to increasing model size or training data, but in some cases smaller models trained on curated data or with differe…