3 papers
cs.CL2026
Large Language Models Are Bad Dice Players: LLMs Struggle to Generate Random Numbers from Statistical Distributions
Minda Zhao, Yilun Du, Mengyu Wang
As large language models (LLMs) transition from chat interfaces to integral components of stochastic pipelines and systems approaching general intelligence, the ability to faithful…
cs.LG2026
Matching Features, Not Tokens: Energy-Based Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Samy Jelassi, Mujin Kwun, Rosie Zhao +5
Cross-entropy (CE) training provides dense and scalable supervision for language models, but it optimizes next-token prediction under teacher forcing rather than sequence-level beh…
cs.CL2026
Grading Scale Impact on LLM-as-a-Judge: Human-LLM Alignment Is Highest on 0-5 Grading Scale
Weiyue Li, Minda Zhao, Weixuan Dong +12
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated evaluators, yet prior works demonstrate that these LLM judges often lack consistency in scoring when the prompt is a…