most citedThe Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models

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cs.AI2026

OSWorld-Science: A Benchmark of Computer Use Agents for Learning and Using Scientific Software

Dingyuan Dai, Heli Qi, Lei Liu +28

Scientific software presents a demanding test for computer-using agents based on visual language models (VLMs): completing a research workflow requires interpreting specialized int…

cs.CL2026

Finding the Right Tables and Columns: A Benchmark and Corpus-Adaptive Embeddings for SQL Schema Retrieval

Qingcheng Zeng, Puxuan Yu, Aman Mehta +2

Retrieval in the SQL setting has largely been studied as the task of finding, within a large collection of SQL statements, the statement that answers a natural-language question. A…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Monolingual Deep Research: Evaluating Agents and Retrievers with Cross-Lingual BrowseComp-Plus

Yuheng Lu, Qingcheng Zeng, Heli Qi +6

Deep research agents are increasingly evaluated on their ability to search for evidence, reason over retrieved sources, and produce grounded answers. Existing browsing benchmarks,…

cs.AI2026

Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark

Sheng Jin, Minghao Liu, Yunze Xiao +24

Knowledge benchmarks for LLMs face three issues: scaling-driven designs that do not operationalize disciplinary representativeness; flat-payment annotation that permits lazy consen…

cs.IR2026

Dual-View Training for Instruction-Following Information Retrieval

Qingcheng Zeng, Puxuan Yu, Aman Mehta +2

Instruction-following information retrieval (IF-IR) studies retrieval systems that must not only find documents relevant to a query, but also obey explicit user constraints such as…

cs.IR2026

Code-Switching Information Retrieval: Benchmarks, Analysis, and the Limits of Current Retrievers

Qingcheng Zeng, Yuheng Lu, Zeqi Zhou +6

Code-switching is a pervasive linguistic phenomenon in global communication, yet modern information retrieval systems remain predominantly designed for, and evaluated within, monol…

cs.CL2026

Farther the Shift, Sparser the Representation: Analyzing OOD Mechanisms in LLMs

Mingyu Jin, Yutong Yin, Jingcheng Niu +7

In this work, we investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) adapt their internal representations when encountering inputs of increasing difficulty, quantified as the degree of ou…

cs.CL2026

NOVA: NOise-aware Verbal Confidence CAlibration for Robust Large Language Models in RAG Systems

Jiayu Liu, Rui Wang, Qing Zong +9

Accurately assessing model confidence is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) in mission-critical factual domains. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is wid…

cs.CV2025

Seeing is Believing, but How Much? A Comprehensive Analysis of Verbalized Calibration in Vision-Language Models

Weihao Xuan, Qingcheng Zeng, Heli Qi +2

Uncertainty quantification is essential for assessing the reliability and trustworthiness of modern AI systems. Among existing approaches, verbalized uncertainty, where models expr…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models

Kefan Yu, Qingcheng Zeng, Weihao Xuan +3

Current large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emerging capabilities in social intelligence tasks, including implicature resolution and theory-of-mind reasoning, both of wh…

cs.CL2025

Thinking Out Loud: Do Reasoning Models Know When They're Right?

Qingcheng Zeng, Weihao Xuan, Leyang Cui +1

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in complex reasoning tasks by leveraging increased test-time computation and exhibiting behaviors r…

cs.CL2025

ThinkBench: Dynamic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation for Robust LLM Reasoning

Shulin Huang, Linyi Yang, Yan Song +9

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) poses significant challenges, particularly due to issues of data contamination and the leakage of correct answers. To address these challeng…