arXiv Machine Learning

Synthetic Hallucinations, Real Gains: Hard Negatives from Frontier Models for FIM Hallucination Mitigation

arXiv:2606. 03130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small open-source code models that power IDE autocomplete still emit hallucinated Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) completions: syntactically natural calls to methods, parameters, variables, and imports that do not exist in the surrounding project.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

QVAC Genesis III: A Large-Scale, High-Quality Open Synthetic STEM Corpus for Efficient Language Model Pre-Training

QVAC Genesis III is a 191.43 B‑token synthetic STEM corpus covering 19 domains and multiple difficulty levels, created through a dual generation strategy that uses a weak edge‑scale student model to generate corrective explanations and contrastive reasoning. The authors evaluate the corpus with an LLM‑as‑a‑parser protocol and demonstrate that 1.7 B‑parameter models trained on QVAC Genesis III outperform those trained on Cosmopedia‑v2 and the Cosmo‑1B model on ARC, GPQA Diamond, and MMLU STEM benchmarks, achieving up to +28.57% improvement on ARC‑E and a 99.45% valid answer rate.

By Davide Vitabile, N. Ranjan, Akshay Nambiar, Kamal K. Gupta, Amril Nazir
arXiv AI
6d ago

ORCA: Evaluating LLMs on Data Science Code Translation

ORCA is a new benchmark for evaluating large language models on Data Science Code Translation (DSCT), comprising two settings: ORCA-MAIN with 1,600 grounding-level tasks across data querying, manipulation, and deep learning, and ORCA-PROJECT with 200 full-project translation tasks across seven data‑science task types. Each task includes reference translations and test cases to verify functional equivalence, and a multi‑stage quality verification process ensures task correctness. Experiments show that even state‑of‑the‑art LLMs perform poorly on DSCT, with Claude‑Opus‑4.6 achieving only 56.92% success on ORCA‑MAIN and 33.67% on ORCA‑PROJECT, while an intent‑augmented approach improves success rates by 4.80% and 5.33% respectively.

By Xiaolong Li, Jinyang Li, Bowen Qin, Ge Qu, Nan Huo, Xiaohan Xu, Shipei Lin, Reynold Cheng
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Domain-Specific Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models

The paper introduces a multi‑signal pipeline for detecting hallucinations in large language models, combining fine‑tuned DeBERTa‑v3 classification, Monte Carlo Dropout uncertainty, and temperature‑scaled calibration. On the HaluEval benchmark it achieves high performance (F1 = 0.915, AUROC = 0.977) across QA, summarization, and dialogue, and shows that 25 % of training data yields 77 % of full‑data performance. The authors also demonstrate that applying Direct Preference Optimization to a Qwen2.5‑0.5B generator cuts hallucination rates from 85.5 % to 37.7 %, and that domain‑specific fine‑tuning (PubMedBERT on SciFact) outperforms general‑domain models for biomedical text.

By Varun Teja Chundru, Debasmita Biswas
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

Listening to the Wise Few: Query-Key Alignment Unlocks Latent Correct Answers in Large Language Models

arXiv:2410.02343v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) routinely fail to output the correct option in multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) while encoding the answer int...

By Eduard Tulchinskii, Kristian Kuznetsov, Laida Kushnareva, Anastasia Voznyuk, Andrei Andriiainen, Irina Piontkovskaya, Evgeny Burnaev, Serguei Barannikov
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Beyond Text Matching: Towards Reference-Free Evaluation for Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering

arXiv:2608. 07038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering (HOBRE) aims to transform decompiled pseudocode into a more human-friendly representation, thereby reducing the cognitive burden of reverse analysis and improving efficiency.

By Xiuwei Shang, Li Hu, Xiao Jiang, Jieke Shi, Junda He, Zhou Yang, Shaoyin Cheng, Guoqiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, David Lo
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 10

Domain-Specific Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models

The paper introduces a multi‑signal pipeline for detecting hallucinations in large language model outputs, combining fine‑tuned DeBERTa‑v3 classification, Monte Carlo Dropout uncertainty, and temperature‑scaled calibration. On the HaluEval benchmark it achieves strong performance (F1 = 0.915, AUROC = 0.977) and further improves accuracy to 93.2% with MC Dropout. The authors also demonstrate that applying Direct Preference Optimization to a Qwen2.5‑0.5B generator reduces hallucination rates from 85.5% to 37.7%, and show that domain‑specific fine‑tuning (PubMedBERT on SciFact) yields better results than general‑domain training.

arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

It's All Training: A Fully Synthetic Single-Stage Recipe for LLMs

arXiv:2609.37891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current pre-training datasets are derived from web crawls, with all their issues, and were not designed to support mid- and post-training pipelines--...

By Pierre-Carl Langlais, Pieter Delobelle, Yannick Detrois, Pavel Chizhov, Carlos Rosas-Hinostroza, Neil Si Smail, Benjamin Burtin, Hanna Shcharbakova, Ivan Yamshchikov, Anastasia Stasenko