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.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…
cs.CL2025
Optimizing LLMs for Italian: Reducing Token Fertility and Enhancing Efficiency Through Vocabulary Adaptation
Luca Moroni, Giovanni Puccetti, Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot +6
The number of pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasing steadily, though the majority are designed predominantly for the English language. While state-of-the-art LLMs c…