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most citedWhere is the answer? Investigating Positional Bias in Language Model Knowledge Extraction

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cs.CV2026

The Devil is in the Spectrum Bias: Spectrum-Balanced Feature Matching for Robust Representation Distillation

Kuniaki Saito, Yoshitaka Ushiku

Large visual foundation models have demonstrated remarkable transferability across a wide range of downstream tasks. To deploy such models efficiently, feature matching has become…

cs.CV2026

HalDec-Bench: Benchmarking Hallucination Detector in Image Captioning

Kuniaki Saito, Risa Shinoda, Shohei Tanaka +3

Hallucination detection in captions (HalDec) assesses a vision-language model's ability to correctly align image content with text by identifying errors in captions that misreprese…

cs.CL2026

MaterialFigBENCH: benchmark dataset with figures for evaluating college-level materials science problem-solving abilities of multimodal large language models

Michiko Yoshitake, Yuta Suzuki, Ryo Igarashi +2

We present MaterialFigBench, a benchmark dataset designed to evaluate the ability of multimodal large language models (LLMs) to solve university-level materials science problems th…

cs.CL2026

Am I More Pointwise or Pairwise? Revealing Position Bias in Rubric-Based LLM-as-a-Judge

Yuzheng Xu, Tosho Hirasawa, Tadashi Kozuno +1

Large language models are widely employed as evaluators, a paradigm commonly referred to as LLM-as-a-judge. Prior research has predominantly examined point-wise or pair-wise evalua…

cs.CL2026

WarrantScore: Modeling Warrants between Claims and Evidence for Substantiation Evaluation in Peer Reviews

Kiyotada Mori, Shohei Tanaka, Tosho Hirasawa +3

The scientific peer-review process is facing a shortage of human resources due to the rapid growth in the number of submitted papers. The use of language models to reduce the human…

cs.CV2025

HalDec-Bench: Benchmarking Hallucination Detector in Image Captioning

Kuniaki Saito, Risa Shinoda, Shohei Tanaka +3

Hallucination detection in captions (HalDec) assesses a vision-language model's ability to correctly align image content with text by identifying errors in captions that misreprese…

cs.CV2025

AgroBench: Vision-Language Model Benchmark in Agriculture

Risa Shinoda, Nakamasa Inoue, Hirokatsu Kataoka +2

Precise automated understanding of agricultural tasks such as disease identification is essential for sustainable crop production. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs)…

cs.CV2025

CaptionSmiths: Flexibly Controlling Language Pattern in Image Captioning

Kuniaki Saito, Donghyun Kim, Kwanyong Park +2

An image captioning model flexibly switching its language pattern, e.g., descriptiveness and length, should be useful since it can be applied to diverse applications. However, desp…

cs.RO2025

Perspective on Utilizing Foundation Models for Laboratory Automation in Materials Research

Kan Hatakeyama-Sato, Toshihiko Nishida, Kenta Kitamura +4

This review explores the potential of foundation models to advance laboratory automation in the materials and chemical sciences. It emphasizes the dual roles of these models: cogni…

cs.CV2024

SBS Figures: Pre-training Figure QA from Stage-by-Stage Synthesized Images

Risa Shinoda, Kuniaki Saito, Shohei Tanaka +2

Building a large-scale figure QA dataset requires a considerable amount of work, from gathering and selecting figures to extracting attributes like text, numbers, and colors, and g…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Adaptable Method for Crystal Design across Diverse Constraints and Objectives with Pretrained Property Predictors

Akihiro Fujii, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Koji Shimizu +2

Advanced crystal design can accelerate materials discovery across applications from photovoltaics to spintronics. Practical design must satisfy multiple properties and physical con…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Where is the answer? Investigating Positional Bias in Language Model Knowledge Extraction

Kuniaki Saito, Kihyuk Sohn, Chen-Yu Lee +1

Large language models require updates to remain up-to-date or adapt to new domains by fine-tuning them with new documents. One key is memorizing the latest information in a way tha…