arXiv:2607. 11890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended surveys offer valuable insights, but they are notoriously difficult to analyze at scale.
By Abdullah Akinde, Mariam Akinde, Rasheedat Emiola, Ahmed Akinsola
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: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:2608. 19323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for the safe deployment of large language models (LLMs).
By Sokhna Diarra Mbacke, Mouloud Belbahri, Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem
arXiv:2610.09571v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Negation is an essential feature of human language, yet large language models (LLMs) remain unreliable in processing it. We evaluate recent open-source...
By Jongwook Yoon, Jongwon Lim, Sungjib Lim, Woojin Cho, Yohan Jo
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
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
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
arXiv:2606.18389v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become an effective tool for synthetic data generation, including for low-resource languages, where generated dat...
By Jan Cegin, Daniil Gurgurov, Yusser Al Ghussin, Simon Ostermann
arXiv:2608.23476v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Narrow fine-tuning on small, domain-specific datasets can produce broad and surprising changes in model behavior-a phenomenon called weird generalizati...
By Miriam Wanner, Mark Dredze, William Walden
arXiv:2505. 20161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective generalization in language models depends critically on the diversity of their training data.
By Jaehun Jung, Seungju Han, Ximing Lu, Skyler Hallinan, David Acuna, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Mostafa Patwary, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, Yejin Choi
arXiv:2510. 09783v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Oversampling is one of the most widely used approaches for addressing imbalanced classification.
By Dang Nguyen, Sunil Gupta, Kien Do, Thin Nguyen, Taylor Braund, Alexis Whitton, Svetha Venkatesh