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cs.CL2025

On Evaluating LLM Alignment by Evaluating LLMs as Judges

Yixin Liu, Pengfei Liu, Arman Cohan

Alignment with human preferences is an important evaluation aspect of LLMs, requiring them to be helpful, honest, safe, and to precisely follow human instructions. Evaluating large…

cs.CL2025

Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks

Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou +39

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial for both assessing their capabilities and identifying safety or robustness issues prior to deployment. Reliably measuring abstrac…

cs.CL2025

AlphaResearch: Accelerating New Algorithm Discovery with Language Models

Zhaojian Yu, Kaiyue Feng, Yilun Zhao +3

LLMs have made significant progress in complex but easy-to-verify problems, yet they still struggle with discovering the unknown. In this paper, we present \textbf{AlphaResearch},…

cs.CL2025

LimRank: Less is More for Reasoning-Intensive Information Reranking

Tingyu Song, Yilun Zhao, Siyue Zhang +2

Existing approaches typically rely on large-scale fine-tuning to adapt LLMs for information reranking tasks, which is computationally expensive. In this work, we demonstrate that m…

cs.CL2025

FinLFQA: Evaluating Attributed Text Generation of LLMs in Financial Long-Form Question Answering

Yitao Long, Tiansheng Hu, Yilun Zhao +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate to long-form questions, producing plausible yet factually incorrect answers. A common mitigation strategy is to provide attribut…

cs.CL2025

DyFlow: Dynamic Workflow Framework for Agentic Reasoning

Yanbo Wang, Zixiang Xu, Yue Huang +9

Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in complex reasoning tasks, but building efficient and generalizable workflows remains a major challe…

cs.CL2025

From Scores to Steps: Diagnosing and Improving LLM Performance in Evidence-Based Medical Calculations

Benlu Wang, Iris Xia, Yifan Zhang +6

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance on medical benchmarks; however, their ability to perform medical calculations, a crucial aspect of clinical dec…

cs.CL2025

MSRS: Evaluating Multi-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Rohan Phanse, Yijie Zhou, Kejian Shi +4

Retrieval-augmented systems are typically evaluated in settings where information required to answer the query can be found within a single source or the answer is short-form or fa…

cs.CL2025

Ref-Long: Benchmarking the Long-context Referencing Capability of Long-context Language Models

Junjie Wu, Gefei Gu, Yanan Zheng +2

Long-context language models (LCLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities in long-context understanding tasks. Among these, long-context referencing -- a crucial task that requir…

cs.CL2025

Demystifying Scientific Problem-Solving in LLMs by Probing Knowledge and Reasoning

Alan Li, Yixin Liu, Arpan Sarkar +2

Scientific problem solving poses unique challenges for LLMs, requiring both deep domain knowledge and the ability to apply such knowledge through complex reasoning. While automated…

cs.CL2025

AbGen: Evaluating Large Language Models in Ablation Study Design and Evaluation for Scientific Research

Yilun Zhao, Weiyuan Chen, Zhijian Xu +5

We introduce AbGen, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of LLMs in designing ablation studies for scientific research. AbGen consists of 1,500 expert-annotate…

cs.CL2025

Can Multimodal Foundation Models Understand Schematic Diagrams? An Empirical Study on Information-Seeking QA over Scientific Papers

Yilun Zhao, Chengye Wang, Chuhan Li +1

This paper introduces MISS-QA, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the ability of models to interpret schematic diagrams within scientific literature. MISS-QA com…

cs.CL2025

Can LLMs Identify Critical Limitations within Scientific Research? A Systematic Evaluation on AI Research Papers

Zhijian Xu, Yilun Zhao, Manasi Patwardhan +2

Peer review is fundamental to scientific research, but the growing volume of publications has intensified the challenges of this expertise-intensive process. While LLMs show promis…

cs.CL2025

SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks

Yilun Zhao, Kaiyan Zhang, Tiansheng Hu +15

We present SciArena, an open and collaborative platform for evaluating foundation models on scientific literature-grounded tasks. Unlike traditional benchmarks for scientific liter…

cs.CL2025

SciVer: Evaluating Foundation Models for Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification

Chengye Wang, Yifei Shen, Zexi Kuang +2

We introduce SciVer, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the ability of foundation models to verify claims within a multimodal scientific context. SciVer consists…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

SUCEA: Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval for Adversarial Fact-checking through Claim Decomposition and Editing

Hongjun Liu, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan +1

Automatic fact-checking has recently received more attention as a means of combating misinformation. Despite significant advancements, fact-checking systems based on retrieval-augm…

cs.CL2025

MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application

Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang +44

Real-world financial analysis involves information across multiple languages and modalities, from reports and news to scanned filings and meeting recordings. Yet most existing eval…

cs.CL2025

Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective

Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Liyuan Geng +3

Large language model (LLM)-based embedding models, benefiting from large scale pre-training and post-training, have begun to surpass BERT and T5-based models on general-purpose tex…

cs.CL2025

Table-R1: Inference-Time Scaling for Table Reasoning

Zheyuan Yang, Lyuhao Chen, Arman Cohan +1

In this work, we present the first study to explore inference-time scaling on table reasoning tasks. We develop and evaluate two post-training strategies to enable inference-time s…

cs.CL2025

YaleNLP @ PerAnsSumm 2025: Multi-Perspective Integration via Mixture-of-Agents for Enhanced Healthcare QA Summarization

Dongsuk Jang, Alan Li, Arman Cohan

Automated summarization of healthcare community question-answering forums is challenging due to diverse perspectives presented across multiple user responses to each question. The…

cs.CL2025

Z1: Efficient Test-time Scaling with Code

Zhaojian Yu, Yinghao Wu, Yilun Zhao +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve enhanced complex problem-solving through test-time computing scaling, yet this often entails longer contexts and numerous reasoning token c…

cs.CL2025

ATEB: Evaluating and Improving Advanced NLP Tasks for Text Embedding Models

Simeng Han, Frank Palma Gomez, Tu Vu +6

Traditional text embedding benchmarks primarily evaluate embedding models' capabilities to capture semantic similarity. However, more advanced NLP tasks require a deeper understand…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

MCTS-RAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Yunhai Hu, Yilun Zhao, Chen Zhao +1

We introduce MCTS-RAG, a novel approach that enhances the reasoning capabilities of small language models on knowledge-intensive tasks by leveraging retrieval-augmented generation…

cs.CL2025

MedicalAgentsBench for Complex Medical Reasoning: Comparing Internalized Reasoning Models versus Externalized Agent-based Frameworks

Yanjun Shao, Xiangru Tang, Jiwoong Sohn +10

Complex medical reasoning requires integrating heterogeneous clinical evidence across multiple inference steps. Large language models (LLMs) now approach this through two routes: i…