Cascaded Batch Prompting introduces a two‑stage method to improve large language model inference by separating complex reasoning from symbol grounding, addressing the unpredictability of traditional batch prompting. Experiments on multiple‑choice question answering and natural language inference show that this approach outperforms single prompting while scaling speed with batch size, achieving a new state‑of‑the‑art balance between accuracy and efficiency.
arXiv:2607. 14109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and building robust solutions for Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) remain central challenges in natural language understanding.
By Inder Preet, Shuxin Lin, Dhaval Patel
arXiv:2607. 28657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often require carefully crafted prompts to unlock their full potential, which can be a barrier for non-expert users.
By Oliver Savolainen, Emanuele Bastianelli, Hosein Azarbonyad
The paper compares two common ways of evaluating large language models (LLMs): prompting them to answer questions directly and scoring candidate answers using likelihood-based metrics. The authors introduce a new protocol that ranks declarative statements derived from question–answer pairs, and test it across 95 decoder-only models (0.1B–104B parameters) on 10 multiple-choice QA datasets. They find that while prompted answering accuracy improves sharply with model scale and instruction tuning, statement‑likelihood ranking accuracy stays relatively stable, indicating that the two evaluation methods probe different aspects of model behavior.
By Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia Passaro, Davide Bacciu, Alessandro Lenci
arXiv:2607.14109v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Probing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and building robust solutions for Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) remain central...
By Inder Preet, Shuxin Lin, Dhaval Patel
arXiv:2410.17021v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models with chain-of-thought prompting, such as OpenAI-o1, have shown impressive capabilities in natural language inference tasks. H...
By Xiaochen Wang, Liang Chen, Reza Haf Zhe Yang, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Kunhao Pan, Zhifang Sui, Junqing He
arXiv:2510. 05363v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adapting Foundation Models to new domains with limited training data is challenging and computationally expensive.
By Abhinav Jain, Xinyu Yao, Thomas Reps, Christopher Jermaine
HiVe is a prompt‑tuning framework that builds a hierarchy of prompts by exploiting inter‑task relationships during training. It uses a vertical mixture‑of‑experts (V‑MoE) at inference to compose prompts at the level of specialization needed for each input, allowing input‑dependent prompt adaptation. Experiments demonstrate that HiVe consistently outperforms strong prompt‑tuning baselines across diverse tasks.
By HyeonJik Bae, Minyeol Kim, Susik Yoon
The paper investigates how small lexical changes in prompts can cause large performance swings in large language models. Using a dataset of 132,000 prompt variants, the authors uncover a scaling law linking higher average task performance to lower variance and greater robustness. They identify domain-specific terminology and explicit action directives as key linguistic factors that stabilize prompts, and propose an automated Prompt-Refining Agent that reduces performance variance by 40.7% in code generation while maintaining or improving mean performance.
By Qipeng Xie, Zi Liang, Jiafei Wu, Yufei Chen, Weizheng Wang, Wenao Ma, Zhong Ming, Haiqin Yang, Kaishun Wu
arXiv:2608.30426v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current dialogue systems struggle with dynamic information retrieval, often leading to hallucinations and lower response accuracy. We address this by a...
By Markel Ferro, Oier Lopez de Lacalle
arXiv:2604. 01161v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibiting test-time scaling behavior, such as extended reasoning traces and self-verification, have demonstrated remarkable performance on complex, long-term reasoning tasks.
By Gleb Rodionov, Roman Garipov, George Yakushev
arXiv:2608.20359v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are deployed for increasingly complex tasks involving planning and multi-step decision making, but high-quality performanc...
By Ravisri Valluri, Tung Nguyen, Aditya Grover