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cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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)…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2024

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…

cs.CL2023

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…