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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.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.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.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.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.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…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

ESPnet-SpeechLM: An Open Speech Language Model Toolkit

Jinchuan Tian, Jiatong Shi, William Chen +13

We present ESPnet-SpeechLM, an open toolkit designed to democratize the development of speech language models (SpeechLMs) and voice-driven agentic applications. The toolkit standar…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Demystifying Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs

Edward Yeo, Yuxuan Tong, Morry Niu +2

Scaling inference compute enhances reasoning in large language models (LLMs), with long chains-of-thought (CoTs) enabling strategies like backtracking and error correction. Reinfor…

cs.CL2024

MAmmoTH-VL: Eliciting Multimodal Reasoning with Instruction Tuning at Scale

Jarvis Guo, Tuney Zheng, Yuelin Bai +7

Open-source multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown significant potential in a broad range of multimodal tasks. However, their reasoning capabilities remain constrained…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Evaluating Language Models as Synthetic Data Generators

Seungone Kim, Juyoung Suk, Xiang Yue +7

Given the increasing use of synthetic data in language model (LM) post-training, an LM's ability to generate high-quality data has become nearly as crucial as its ability to solve…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Better Instruction-Following Through Minimum Bayes Risk

Ian Wu, Patrick Fernandes, Amanda Bertsch +3

General-purpose LLM judges capable of human-level evaluation provide not only a scalable and accurate way of evaluating instruction-following LLMs but also new avenues for supervis…