3 papers
cs.CL2026
ReTraceQA: Evaluating Reasoning Traces of Small Language Models in Commonsense Question Answering
Francesco Maria Molfese, Luca Moroni, Ciro Porcaro +2
While Small Language Models (SLMs) have demonstrated promising performance on an increasingly wide array of commonsense reasoning benchmarks, current evaluation practices rely almo…
cs.CL2026
Exploring Fine-Tuning for In-Context Retrieval and Efficient KV-Caching in Long-Context Language Models
Francesco Maria Molfese, Momchil Hardalov, Rexhina Blloshmi +2
With context windows of millions of tokens, Long-Context Language Models (LCLMs) can encode entire document collections, offering a strong alternative to conventional retrieval-aug…
cs.CL2025
Right Answer, Wrong Score: Uncovering the Inconsistencies of LLM Evaluation in Multiple-Choice Question Answering
Francesco Maria Molfese, Luca Moroni, Luca Gioffré +3
One of the most widely used tasks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) is Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA). While open-ended question answering tasks are more chall…