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33 papers

cs.CL2026

CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data

Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94

Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…

cs.CL2026

Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures

Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377

To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…

cs.CL2026

GSM-SEM: Benchmark and Framework for Generating Semantically Variant Augmentations

Jyotika Singh, Fang Tu, Aziza Mirsaidova +11

Benchmarks like GSM8K are popular measures of mathematical reasoning, but leaderboard gains can overstate true capability due to memorization of fixed test sets. Most robustness va…

cs.CV2026

Do Image-Text Metrics Respect Semantic Invariances?

Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Meizhu Liu +9

Reference-free image-to-text evaluators are now standard for scoring image-caption alignment, yet it is unclear whether they respect semantic invariances. We present an invariance…

cs.CL2026

Robust Audio-Text Retrieval via Cross-Modal Attention and Hybrid Loss

Meizhu Liu, Matthew Rowe, Amit Agarwal +8

Audio-text retrieval enables semantic alignment between audio content and natural language queries, supporting applications in multimedia search, accessibility, and surveillance. H…

cs.CL2026

SPENCE: A Syntactic Probe for Detecting Contamination in NL2SQL Benchmarks

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Afshin Orojlooyjadid +2

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance on natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) benchmarks, yet their reported accuracy may be inflated by contamination from benc…