arXiv AI

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.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

What Models Know, How Well They Know It: Knowledge-Weighted Fine-Tuning for Learning When to Say "I Don't Know"

The paper introduces Knowledge-Weighted Fine‑Tuning, a method that estimates an instance‑level knowledge score through multi‑sampled inference and uses it to scale the learning signal. This approach encourages large language models to explicitly say "I don't know" on out‑of‑scope queries while preserving accuracy on known questions. The authors also propose new evaluation metrics for uncertainty, demonstrating that better discrimination between known and unknown instances improves overall performance.

By Joosung Lee, Hwiyeol Jo, Donghyeon Ko, Kyubyung Chae, Cheonbok Park, Jeonghoon Kim
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
arXiv AI
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
arXiv AI
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
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

Large Reasoning Models Struggle to Transfer Parametric Knowledge Across Scripts

The paper investigates why large reasoning language models struggle to transfer parametric knowledge across different scripts. Through observational data and regression analysis on ECLeKTic and MultiLoKo datasets, the authors find that script mismatch—not language family—is the main predictor of transfer failure when controlling for model capability and question difficulty. By providing key entities in the source language and training models to reason about transliteration ambiguities, they demonstrate a reduction in the cross‑script transfer gap, suggesting that post‑training improvements can enhance cross‑lingual knowledge transfer.

By Lucas Bandarkar, Alan Ansell, Trevor Cohn
arXiv AI
6d ago

Do LLMs Understand Context? A Knowledge Graph-Based Evaluation Framework

The paper introduces a knowledge‑graph‑based evaluation framework, S3KG, to assess whether large language models truly understand context in question answering tasks. S3KG combines structural and semantic signals into a single similarity score and is paired with a diagnostic analysis that pinpoints reasoning errors at the triplet level. Across nine benchmarks, the method outperforms existing baselines, achieving up to +7.6 F1 points and an AUROC of 0.973.

By Subavarshana Arumugam, Mamta Nallaretnam, Kithuni Wickramasinghe, Chamath Gunapala, Pragatheeswaran Vipulanandan, Kamal Premaratne, Uthayasanker Thayasivam
arXiv AI
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