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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.CV2026

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…

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.LG2026

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…

cs.AI2026

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…

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…