Grading Needs a Rubric, Not Intelligence
arXiv:2608. 17938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small language models can grade open-ended examination answers as reliably as substantially more expensive models when they grade against an explicit rubric.
arXiv:2603. 04905v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Administrative extracts are often exchanged as spreadsheets and may be read as reports in their own right during budgeting, workload review, and governance discussions.
arXiv:2608. 17938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small language models can grade open-ended examination answers as reliably as substantially more expensive models when they grade against an explicit rubric.
arXiv:2608. 16045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based data-analysis tools are increasingly used to help users analyze messy spreadsheets and workbooks, from answering questions over uploaded files to generating code, summaries, and visualizations.
arXiv:2605. 22664v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly expected to carry out end-to-end workflows, producing complete artifacts from high-level user instructions.
arXiv:2606. 23767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Headline accuracies on the Tuebingen cause-effect pairs are routinely compared across papers even though each is measured under its authors' own protocol -- different pair subsets, weightings, model-selection, and decision rates.
arXiv:2606. 10457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision rules that enterprise experts apply tacitly -- in auditing, compliance, and contract review -- can be systematically recovered and improved through iterative error analysis.
arXiv:2607. 27189v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce APEX-Accounting, a benchmark built by Mercor in partnership with Ramp, to assess whether frontier models can do the real work of accountants.
arXiv:2607. 24010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active RAG systems decide when to retrieve external knowledge during generation, making them a budget-sensitive case of agentic RAG and self-adaptive retrieval.
arXiv:2607. 01245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Office Comprehension Bench (OCB), the first public benchmark to jointly evaluate LLM systems on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint comprehension over native file formats (.
arXiv:2606. 28471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model capability is the central variable in LLM pre-training, yet is never observed directly: data shapes it prospectively, while evaluation reveals it only retrospectively, compressing samples, prompts, decoding, and scoring rules into one noisy score.
We introduce APEX-Accounting, a benchmark built by Mercor in partnership with Ramp, to assess whether frontier models can do the real work of accountants. Tasks include reconciling accounts, accruing expenses, posting transactions, and producing reports.
arXiv:2605. 17554v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier deep research agents (DRAs) plan a research task, synthesize across documents, and return a structured deliverable on demand.
arXiv:2606. 15349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standardized examinations are typically treated as uniform syllabus coverage problems.