3 papers
cs.CL2026
No Detectable Change in Side-Level WER from Prompt-Level Context: A Preregistered Ablation on a Production Oral-History Corpus
Theodore O. Cochran, Stephanie Dodson, Keith Nore
Supplying context at inference time to a large multimodal model is an inexpensive lever for adapting speech transcription to a domain, and earlier results on smaller models reporte…
cs.CL2026
Progressive Disclosure for LLM-Maintained Wiki Knowledge Bases: a Preregistered Ablation
Theodore O. Cochran
LLM agents increasingly answer questions against knowledge bases they help maintain. A common intuition holds that progressive disclosure, a compact catalog plus a one-line summary…
cs.CL2026
Single-Round Vector RAG vs an LLM-Compiled Wiki: A Preregistered Comparison on a Small Multi-Domain Research Corpus
Theodore O. Cochran
We preregistered a comparison of two ways to help an LLM answer questions over a small research corpus: a single-round Vector RAG system and an LLM-compiled markdown wiki browsed b…