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Beyond Questions: Evaluating LLM's Knowledge Expression

arXiv:2605. 26937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parametric knowledge in large language models (LLMs) is a cornerstone of their success, yet remains poorly understood.

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Jul 1

SAGE: A Search-AuGmented Evaluation of Large Language Models on Free-Form QA

arXiv:2504. 07385v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly used for question-answering (QA), relying on static, pre-annotated references for evaluation poses significant challenges in cost, scalability, and completeness.

By Sher Badshah, Ali Emami, Hassan Sajjad

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Jun 26

NuclearQAv2: A Structured Benchmark for Evaluating Domain-Science Competence in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 27047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of tasks, but ensuring their reliability in highly technical domains remains a significant challenge.

By Henry Shaowu Yuchi, Michal Kucer, Benjamin H. Sims, Selma Peterson, Emily Taylor

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arXiv AI

Jun 10

RankLLM: Weighted Ranking of LLMs by Quantifying Question Difficulty

arXiv:2602. 12424v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Benchmarks establish a standardized evaluation framework to systematically assess the performance of large language models (LLMs), facilitating objective comparisons and driving advancements in the field.

By Ziqian Zhang, Xingjian Hu, Yue Huang, Kai Zhang, Ruoxi Chen, Yixin Liu, Qingsong Wen, Kaidi Xu, Xiangliang Zhang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Lichao Sun

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Jun 10

LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake

arXiv:2606. 10460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) have shown rapid progress in reading-based question answering (QA), where evidence is explicitly provided or can be trivially retrieved.

By Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu, Austin Senna Wijaya, Tianle Zhou, Eden Wu, Yijia Chen, Wanting You, Reya Vir, Daniela Pinto, Grace Fan, Yusen Zhang, Juliana Freire, Eugene Wu

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Jun 24

Benchmarking LLMs' Mathematical Reasoning with Unseen Random Variables Questions

arXiv:2501. 11790v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies have raised significant concerns regarding the reliability of current mathematics benchmarks, highlighting issues such as simplistic design and potential data contamination.

By Zijin Hong, Hao Wu, Su Dong, Junnan Dong, Yilin Xiao, Yujing Zhang, Zhu Wang, Feiran Huang, Linyi Li, Hongxia Yang, Xiao Huang

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Jul 8

Data Analysis in the Wild: Benchmarking Large Language Models Against Real-World Data Complexities

arXiv:2607. 06482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current benchmarks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) in data analysis often fail to reflect real-world settings.

By So Hasegawa, Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Lei Liu, Wei-Peng Chen

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Jun 2

KnowledgeBerg: Evaluating Systematic Knowledge Coverage and Compositional Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2604. 17621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many real-world questions appear deceptively simple yet implicitly demand two capabilities: (i) systematic coverage of a bounded knowledge universe and (ii) compositional set-based reasoning over that universe, a phenomenon we term "the tip of the iceberg.

By Xiao Zhang, Qianru Meng, Yongjian Chen, Yumeng Wang, Johan Bos

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Jul 8

Estimating Uncertainty from Reasoning: A Large-Scale Study of Multi- and Crosslingual MCQA Performance in LLMs

arXiv:2607. 06327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty estimation (UE) enables LLM-powered systems to recognize when to abstain, yet existing research has predominantly focused on English.

By Andrea Alfarano, Andrea Bacciu, Saab Mansour, Amin Mantrach, Marcello Federico

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Jul 17

Simplicity Paradox: Debunking myths about prompting and datasets for LLM evaluation

arXiv:2607. 14109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and building robust solutions for Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) remain central challenges in natural language understanding.

By Inder Preet, Shuxin Lin, Dhaval Patel

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Jul 29

Beyond Self-Knowledge: Propagating Uncertainty Across Reasoning and Retrieval in LLMs

arXiv:2607. 25600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation improves knowledge-intensive question answering, but indiscriminate retrieval can introduce irrelevant evidence and unnecessary computation.

By Chandan Kumar Sah, Xiaoli Lian, Li Zhang

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Jul 21

BERT-as-a-Judge: A Robust Alternative to Lexical Methods for Efficient Reference-Based LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2604. 09497v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate evaluation is central to the large language model (LLM) ecosystem, guiding model selection and downstream adoption across diverse use cases.

By Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Nicolas Boizard, Emmanuel Malherbe, C\'eline Hudelot, Pierre Colombo

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Jul 28

Same Question, Different Answers: Evaluating LLM Reliability Beyond Accuracy

arXiv:2607. 22554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often achieve strong accuracy on benchmarks, yet it remains unclear how reliably they apply this knowledge when the same question is phrased in different but equivalent ways.

By Kazem Faghih, Yize Cheng, Shoumik Saha, Mobina Pournemat, Armin Gerami, Soheil Feizi

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