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10 papers

cs.AI2026

Neurosymbolic Clinical Trial Matching via LLM-Driven Abduction and Logical Verification

Baiyang Qu, Leonardo Ranaldi, Xi Wang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising path to automate Clinical Trial Matching (CTM), but still struggle with the deterministic verification required for complex eligibili…

cs.CL2026

Abstract Activation Spaces for Content-Invariant Reasoning in Large Language Models

Gabriele Maraia, Marco Valentino, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with deductive judgment in syllogistic reasoning, systematically conflating semantic plausibility with formal validity a phenomenon know…

cs.CL2025

Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative

Malvina Nissim, Danilo Croce, Viviana Patti +78

The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed natural language processing and broadened its impact across research and society. Yet, systematic evaluation of t…

cs.CL2025

Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive Task

Leonardo Ranaldi, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone of contemporary NLP, enhancing large language models (LLMs) by allowing them to access richer factual contexts through…

cs.CL2025

Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Quasi-Symbolic Abstractions

Leonardo Ranaldi, Marco Valentino, Andrè Freitas

Chain-of-Though (CoT) represents a common strategy for reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) by decomposing complex tasks into intermediate inference steps. However, explanatio…

cs.CL2025

Dissecting Clinical Reasoning in Language Models: A Comparative Study of Prompts and Model Adaptation Strategies

Mael Jullien, Marco Valentino, Leonardo Ranaldi +1

Recent works on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the impact of prompting strategies and fine-tuning techniques on their reasoning capabilities. Yet, their effectivene…