arXiv Machine Learning

Using Small Language Models to Reverse-Engineer Machine Learning Pipelines Structures

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30

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
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry

arXiv:2601. 22588v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as reference-free evaluators via prompting, but this "LLM-as-a-Judge" paradigm is costly, opaque, and sensitive to prompt design.

By Zhuochun Li, Yong Zhang, Ming Li, Yuelyu Ji, Yiming Zeng, Ning Cheng, Yun Zhu, Yanmeng Wang, Shaojun Wang, Jing Xiao, Daqing He
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Evaluation of pre-trained models for pedagogical assessment of novel AI-assisted educational questions

The study evaluates how well pre‑trained models can classify the Bloom level of AI‑generated educational questions, a task that is crucial for ensuring pedagogical quality. Traditional machine‑learning models perform poorly on out‑of‑distribution data, whereas transformer and large‑language models achieve higher accuracy, especially after feature‑engineering techniques such as text splicing and appending learning objectives. Retraining the models yields the most significant performance gains across all datasets.

By Michael Lawrence Castanares, Princess Ventures, Allan Tan
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Enhancing Sentiment Classification on Small Datasets through Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning

The paper investigates how data augmentation can improve sentiment classification on small datasets. Three augmentation techniques—Easy Data Augmentation (EDA), back‑translation, and contextual token substitution—are evaluated with both traditional classifiers (Logistic Regression, Random Forest) and BERT. Results show that all methods boost performance, with contextual augmentation best for BERT and EDA/back‑translation benefiting traditional models.

By Mahmoud S. Mayaleh, Samer A. Mayaleh
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

INCONVENIENT: A Benchmark to Assess LLM Generalization Capabilities from Convenience Samples

INCONVENIENT is a new benchmark that evaluates how machine‑learning models, especially large language models, generalize when trained on convenience samples that bias feature–target relationships. Unlike prior distribution‑shift tests that rely on natural domain splits, INCONVENIENT explicitly perturbs these relationships while keeping the deployment population unchanged, allowing controlled study of shift severity and direction. The benchmark covers 200 tabular classification and regression datasets and produces about 15,500 shifted training distributions, revealing significant performance degradation.

By Sara Rezaeimanesh, Chad Klochko, Kundan Thind, Mohammad Ghassemi