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7 papers

cs.CL2025

BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning

Ahmed Masry, Abhay Puri, Masoud Hashemi +13

Charts are essential to data analysis, transforming raw data into clear visual representations that support human decision-making. Although current vision-language models (VLMs) ha…

cs.CL2025

Prompting with Phonemes: Enhancing LLMs' Multilinguality for Non-Latin Script Languages

Hoang H Nguyen, Khyati Mahajan, Vikas Yadav +4

Although multilingual LLMs have achieved remarkable performance across benchmarks, we find they continue to underperform on non-Latin script languages across contemporary LLM famil…

cs.CL2025

Augmenting LLM Reasoning with Dynamic Notes Writing for Complex QA

Rishabh Maheshwary, Masoud Hashemi, Khyati Mahajan +5

Iterative RAG for multi-hop question answering faces challenges with lengthy contexts and the buildup of irrelevant information. This hinders a model's capacity to process and reas…

cs.LG2025

DNR Bench: Benchmarking Over-Reasoning in Reasoning LLMs

Masoud Hashemi, Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan +3

Test-time scaling has significantly improved large language model performance, enabling deeper reasoning to solve complex problems. However, this increased reasoning capability als…

cs.LG2025

Revitalizing Saturated Benchmarks: A Weighted Metric Approach for Differentiating Large Language Model Performance

Bryan Etzine, Masoud Hashemi, Nishanth Madhusudhan +4

Existing benchmarks are becoming saturated and struggle to separate model performances due to factors like data contamination and advancing LLM capabilities. This paper introduces…

cs.CL2025

Auto-Cypher: Improving LLMs on Cypher generation via LLM-supervised generation-verification framework

Aman Tiwari, Shiva Krishna Reddy Malay, Vikas Yadav +2

Graph databases like Neo4j are gaining popularity for handling complex, interconnected data, over traditional relational databases in modeling and querying relationships. While tra…