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5 papers

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

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…

cs.CL2025

Protoknowledge Shapes Behaviour of LLMs in Downstream Tasks: Memorization and Generalization with Knowledge Graphs

Federico Ranaldi, Andrea Zugarini, Leonardo Ranaldi +1

We introduce the concept of protoknowledge to formalize and measure how sequences of tokens encoding Knowledge Graphs are internalized during pretraining and utilized at inference…

cs.CL2025

Improving Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Language Models through Dialectic Reasoning Argumentations

Leonardo Ranaldi, Federico Ranaldi, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is key to enhancing large language models (LLMs) to systematically access richer factual knowledge. Yet, using RAG brings intrinsic challenges,…