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5 papers

cs.CL2026

UNSPECIFIC: General Constraint Synthesis for Breaking Copy-and-Paste Shortcut in LLM Instruction Following

Jeet Sharma, Balpreet Kaur, Jeremiah Hong +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to follow long lists of constraints in complex instructions, and synthesizing instructions from a reference document (i.e., b…

cs.CL2026

Your Mouse and Eyes Secretly Leak Your Preference: LLM Alignment using Implicit Feedback from Users

Haw-Shiuan Chang, Jeffrey Gomez, Mehul Patwari +2

To align a Large Language Model (LLM), most existing methods collect explicit human feedback and train a reward model to predict the human preference based on the response text. Th…

cs.CL2026

PROMPT2BOX:Improving LLM Weakness Discovery and Specificity Estimation by Uncovering Entailment Structure among Prompts

Neeladri Bhuiya, Shib Sankar Dasgupta, Andrew McCallum +1

To discover the weaknesses of LLMs, researchers often embed prompts into a vector space and cluster them to extract insightful patterns. However, vector embeddings primarily captur…

cs.CL2026

Truncated Step-Level Sampling with Process Rewards for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

Chris Samarinas, Haw-Shiuan Chang, Hamed Zamani

Reinforcement learning has emerged as an effective paradigm for training large language models to interleave reasoning with search engine calls. However, existing approaches face a…

cs.CL2025

CoKe: Customizable Fine-Grained Story Evaluation via Chain-of-Keyword Rationalization

Brihi Joshi, Sriram Venkatapathy, Mohit Bansal +2

Evaluating creative text such as human-written stories using language models has always been a challenging task -- owing to the subjectivity of multi-annotator ratings. To mimic th…