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Reference-Based Analysis of Coherence and Diversity in Open-Ended Text Generation
Esteban Garcés Arias
Evaluating open-ended text generation involves understanding how different properties of a continuation relate to its perceived quality. We present a reference-based framework for…
Automated sign detection across the Electronic Babylonian Library: A large-scale dataset and end-to-end cuneiform OCR pipeline
Wentao Che, Esteban Garcés Arias, Asim Niaz +2
Learning to read cuneiform tablets is an extremely demanding task; consequently, of the roughly half million excavated tablets, only a small fraction has been analysed by Assyriolo…
Breaking the Likelihood Trap: Variance-Calibrated Modulation for Large Language Model Decoding
Yuanhao Ding, Meimingwei Li, Esteban Garces Arias +3
In open-ended generation, LLMs frequently fall into the "likelihood trap", characterized by repetitive degeneration and vocabulary dullness, resulting in a discrepancy between mach…
Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan
Ahan Chatterjee, Matthias Schöffel, Matthias Aßenmacher +2
The diachronic evolution from Latin to the Romance languages involved a restructuring of the grammatical gender system from a tripartite configuration (masculine, feminine, neuter)…
Beyond Temperature: Hyperfitting as a Late-Stage Geometric Expansion
Meimingwei Li, Yuanhao Ding, Esteban Garces Arias +1
Recent work has identified a counterintuitive phenomenon termed "Hyperfitting", where fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) to near-zero training loss on small datasets surprisi…
From Traditional Taggers to LLMs: A Comparative Study of POS Tagging for Medieval Romance Languages
Matthias Schöffel, Esteban Garces Arias
Part-of-speech (POS) tagging for Medieval Romance languages remains challenging due to orthographic variation, morphological complexity, and limited annotated resources. This paper…
Self-Reinforcing Controllable Synthesis of Rare Relational Data via Bayesian Calibration
Chongsheng Zhang, Hao Wang, Zelong Yu +7
Imbalanced data are commonly present in real-world applications. While data synthesis can effectively mitigate data scarcity for rare classes, and LLMs have revolutionized text gen…
Min- Sampling: Decoupling Truncation from Temperature Scaling via Relative Logit Dynamics
Yuanhao Ding, Meimingwei Li, Esteban Garces Arias +3
The quality of text generated by large language models depends critically on the decoding sampling strategy. While mainstream methods such as Top-, Top-, and Min- achieve…
The Truncation Blind Spot: How Decoding Strategies Systematically Exclude Human-Like Token Choices
Esteban Garces Arias, Nurzhan Sapargali, Christian Heumann +1
Why does machine-generated text remain detectable? We investigate a mechanistic explanation at the decoding stage: standard strategies such as top- and nucleus sampling restrict…
Digitizing Nepal's Written Heritage: A Comprehensive HTR Pipeline for Old Nepali Manuscripts
Anjali Sarawgi, Esteban Garces Arias, Christof Zotter
This paper presents the first end-to-end pipeline for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Old Nepali, a historically significant but low-resource language. We adopt a line-level…
The Geometry of Creative Variability: How Credal Sets Expose Calibration Gaps in Language Models
Esteban Garces Arias, Julian Rodemann, Christian Heumann
Understanding uncertainty in large language models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in creative tasks where multiple valid outputs exist. We present a geometric framew…
GUARD: Glocal Uncertainty-Aware Robust Decoding for Effective and Efficient Open-Ended Text Generation
Yuanhao Ding, Esteban Garces Arias, Meimingwei Li +6
Open-ended text generation faces a critical challenge: balancing coherence with diversity in LLM outputs. While contrastive search-based decoding strategies have emerged to address…
Statistical Multicriteria Evaluation of LLM-Generated Text
Esteban Garces Arias, Hannah Blocher, Julian Rodemann +2
Assessing the quality of LLM-generated text remains a fundamental challenge in natural language processing. Current evaluation approaches often rely on isolated metrics or simplist…
Unveiling Factors for Enhanced POS Tagging: A Study of Low-Resource Medieval Romance Languages
Matthias Schöffel, Esteban Garces Arias, Marinus Wiedner +4
Part-of-speech (POS) tagging remains a foundational component in natural language processing pipelines, particularly critical for historical text analysis at the intersection of co…
Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan
Matthias Schöffel, Marinus Wiedner, Esteban Garces Arias +3
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing, yet their effectiveness in handling historical languages remains largely unex…
A Statistical Case Against Empirical Human-AI Alignment
Julian Rodemann, Esteban Garces Arias, Christoph Luther +2
Empirical human-AI alignment aims to make AI systems act in line with observed human behavior. While noble in its goals, we argue that empirical alignment can inadvertently introdu…
Towards Better Open-Ended Text Generation: A Multicriteria Evaluation Framework
Esteban Garces Arias, Hannah Blocher, Julian Rodemann +3
Open-ended text generation has become a prominent task in natural language processing due to the rise of powerful (large) language models. However, evaluating the quality of these…
Decoding Decoded: Understanding Hyperparameter Effects in Open-Ended Text Generation
Esteban Garces Arias, Meimingwei Li, Christian Heumann +1
Decoding strategies for generative large language models (LLMs) are a critical but often underexplored aspect of text generation tasks. Guided by specific hyperparameters, these st…
Adaptive Contrastive Search: Uncertainty-Guided Decoding for Open-Ended Text Generation
Esteban Garces Arias, Julian Rodemann, Meimingwei Li +2
Decoding from the output distributions of large language models to produce high-quality text is a complex challenge in language modeling. Various approaches, such as beam search, s…
How Different Is Stereotypical Bias Across Languages?
Ibrahim Tolga Öztürk, Rostislav Nedelchev, Christian Heumann +4
Recent studies have demonstrated how to assess the stereotypical bias in pre-trained English language models. In this work, we extend this branch of research in multiple different…