3 papers
cs.LG2026
CLM-as-a-Judge: Evaluating an Open Contrastive Decision Model on Public Judge Benchmarks
Gowthamkumar Nandakishore
An open contrastive decision model is near chance as a judge on the hard public benchmarks: Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B scores between 0.351 (best- of-four, chance 0.250) and 0.593…
cs.AI2026
Laya as a Typed Probabilistic Assessor: An Independent Reproduction and a Preregistered Study of Calibration and Selective Escalation
Gowthamkumar Nandakishore
The shipped Laya Typed-Decisions checkpoint, a 421M-parameter ModernBERT-large assessor that answers typed choice/noul/score questions over workflow state, is uniformly under-confi…
cs.AI2026
JTON: A Token-Efficient JSON Superset with Zen Grid Tabular Encoding for Large Language Models
Gowthamkumar Nandakishore
When LLMs process structured data, the serialization format directly affects cost and context utilization. Standard JSON wastes tokens repeating key names in every row of a tabular…