arXiv Computation and Language

Manac\'a-1B-Instruct-2: Reproducible Safety Alignment for a Native Brazilian-Portuguese LLM. Negative DPO Results, a Controlled Composition Scan, and a Silent Failure Mode of the LLM Judge

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Calibration, Not Compilation: Detecting and Repairing Misspecified Probabilistic Programs Written by Language Models

arXiv:2606. 31630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models increasingly write probabilistic programs (in NumPyro, Stan, or Pyro), but a program that compiles, runs, and passes every unit test can still be \emph{statistically} wrong -- a Gaussian likelihood for heavy-tailed data, a Poisson for over-dispersed counts, an invalid prior support, or a pathological parameterization.

By Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Neurosymbolic Alignment for Physiologically-Safe Clinical Language Models

Neurosymbolic Alignment couples a 7B clinical language model with a graph‑based physiological world model to score candidate responses using homeostatic constraints, multi‑hop plausibility, and drug‑interaction penalties. This training‑time framework drives iterative on‑policy updates and achieves a 90.8% Clinical Safety Score on the CSB benchmark, outperforming ORPO, GPT‑4 (5‑shot), and a self‑correction pipeline. Ablation studies show that the HGNN scoring and iterative training are the key contributors to the safety gains.

By Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Erik Cambria, Milena Zivkovic
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

SynthSentry: Detecting Synthetic Data Contamination in Language Model Training Data

The paper introduces SynthSentry, a model‑agnostic method for detecting synthetic data contamination in language‑model training corpora. It computes a distributional divergence score based on lexical diversity collapse, n‑gram tail truncation, and perplexity variance across reference models, requiring no access to the generating model or synthetic labels. Experiments on English corpora contaminated by small open‑weight generators and an instruction‑tuned model show that SynthSentry ranks contamination severity accurately, maintains low false‑positive rates after calibration, and does not degrade downstream fine‑tuning performance at the tested scale.

By Praveen Kumar Myakala, Ravichandra Namburi, Sowmya Keragodu Jayaramu, Sooraj George Thomas
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 17

Toward Better Assessment of LLMs' Performance in Clinical Error Detection

Automated detection of errors in clinical documentation is a promising application of large language models (LLMs), yet decisions to deploy such models rest on benchmarks that evaluate each clinical note in isolation. Error-detection benchmarks are typically constructed by injecting errors into notes, such that each erroneous note has a natural counterpart.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Manac\'a-1B: An Open, Reproducible Brazilian-Portuguese Language Model and a Tokenizer-Aware, Paired Evaluation

Manacá-1B is a 1.72‑billion‑parameter, open decoder‑only language model trained from scratch for Brazilian Portuguese, released with a fully containerized, reproducible training pipeline and complete logs. The authors evaluate it against nine open baselines on four Portuguese benchmarks, reporting standard errors and paired significance tests, and find that Manacá-1B outperforms smaller models on LAMBADA‑PT while remaining competitive on commonsense completion. They also uncover a tokenizer‑related evaluation pitfall that can drastically lower accuracy and provide a simple fix, releasing all code, logs, and corrected tokenizer for full reproducibility.

By Bruno Leonardo Santos Menezes, Carlos Leonardo Souza Cardoso, Fabio Andre Machado Porto