Multimodal Language Models Benchmarked Against the NRC Reactor Operator Licensing Examination: Fine-Tuning and Retrieval Strategies

Isak Hwang, Yoon Pyo Lee, Syed Bahauddin Alam

Competence claims for a language model in a safety-critical domain are credible when measured against a standard the domain already enforces. We evaluate an open-weight 31-billion-…