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What We Observe as LLM Behavior Can Be a Side-effect of Inference Backend
Shahed Masoudian, Passant Shafaei, Monorama Swain +1
Benchmark scores are reported as properties of a model, yet the inference framework used to produce them, such as HuggingFace, vLLM, or Ollama, are considered non-influential and t…
Learning Speaker Identity Beyond Language and Modality Constraints: Insights from the POLY-SIM 2026 Challenge
Marta Moscati, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Marina Zanoni +9
The paper describes the POLY-SIM 2026 challenge, which focuses on developing multimodal speaker identification systems that remain robust when audio or visual data are missing and…
Facet-Level Tracing of Evidence Uncertainty and Hallucination in RAG
Passant Elchafei, Monorama Swain, Shahed Masoudian +1
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) aims to reduce hallucination by grounding answers in retrieved evidence, yet hallucinated answers remain common even when relevant documents ar…
H-RAG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hierarchical Parent-Child Retrieval for Multi-Turn RAG Conversations
Passant Elchafei, Hossam Emam, Mohamed Alansary +2
We present H-RAG, our submission to SemEval-2026 Task 8 (MTRAGEval), addressing both Task A (Retrieval) and Task C (Generation with Retrieved Passages). Task A evaluates standalone…
POLY-SIM: Polyglot Speaker Identification with Missing Modality Grand Challenge 2026 Evaluation Plan
Marta Moscati, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Marina Zanoni +8
Multimodal speaker identification systems typically assume the availability of complete and homogeneous audio-visual modalities during both training and testing. However, in real-w…
Towards Fair ASR For Second Language Speakers Using Fairness Prompted Finetuning
Monorama Swain, Bubai Maji, Jagabandhu Mishra +3
In this work, we address the challenge of building fair English ASR systems for second-language speakers. Our analysis of widely used ASR models, Whisper and Seamless-M4T, reveals…