arXiv AI

Benchmarking Language Models for Statistical Problem Formulation

Large language models are increasingly used to assist with statistical and data science tasks, but current evaluations assume the analysis goal is already defined. This paper formalizes the upstream step of Statistical Problem Formulation into two subtasks—classification of the statistical problem and identification of relevant variables—and introduces StatFormBench, a benchmark comprising 1,013 samples from five statistics textbooks and a data science case library. Across 14 open- and closed‑source LLMs, the best zero‑shot models achieve only 72.0% fine‑grained classification accuracy and 63.2% variable set overlap, with no model consistently excelling in both subtasks and limited gains from enhanced prompting strategies.

arXiv AI

Jun 2

Uncovering Competency Gaps in Large Language Models and Their Benchmarks

arXiv:2512. 20638v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The evaluation of large language models relies heavily on standardized benchmarks.

By Maty Bohacek, Nino Scherrer, Nicholas Dufour, Thomas Leung, Christoph Bregler, Stephanie C. Y. Chan

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arXiv AI

Jul 22

FindStatBench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Combinatorial Code Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 18260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce FindStatBench, an execution benchmark for evaluating large language models on combinatorial code synthesis.

By Soham Dan

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arXiv Computation and Language

Sep 14

Zipbench: Low-Cost Framework for Compressing Comprehensive Benchmarks of Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.12475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive benchmark suites are essential for improving large language models (LLMs), but many widely used benchmarks are redundant, making evaluati...

By Zhongzhan Huang, Junxin Li, Guoming Ling, Yupei Lin, Shanshan Zhong, Hefeng Wu

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arXiv AI

Jul 1

Cross-lingual Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuned Evaluation on Romanian

arXiv:2606. 31718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relation extraction (RE) for low-resource languages is typically constrained by the lack of annotated corpora.

By Dragos-Mitrut Vasile, Elena-Simona Apostol, Stefan-Adrian Toma, Adrian Paschke, Ciprian-Octavian Truica

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles

arXiv:2606. 07520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints, ranging from verifiable ones (e.

By Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou, Yuxian Wang, Wu Ning, Haonan Song, Dandan Tu, Qixun Zhang, Yuxiang He, Bibo Cai, Ting Liu

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arXiv AI

Jul 8

PluraMath: Extending Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation Beyond High-Resource Languages

arXiv:2607. 05992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mathematical reasoning has become a central task for evaluating and tuning reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing benchmarks remain heavily biased toward high-resource languages, with English and Chinese dominating both pre-training corpora and evaluation suites.

By Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Kathy H\"ammerl, Ilseyar Alimova, Jind\v{r}ich Libovick\'y, Shu Okabe, Miras Baisbay, Lukas Edman, Abrorkhon Inomkhujaev, Antonia Karamolegkou, Mateusz Lango, Volkan \"Ozer, Nikola Selic, Subhankar Swain, Tsedeniya Kinfe Temesgen, Galit Bary Weisberg, Alexander Fraser

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arXiv Computation and Language

Sep 2

PromptNCE: Conditional Probabilities and PMI Using Only LLMs and Contrastive Estimation Prompts

The paper introduces PromptNCE, a zero‑shot method that uses large language models to estimate pointwise mutual information (PMI) by framing conditional probability estimation as a contrastive task with an explicit OTHER category. The authors benchmark PromptNCE against four other prompting‑based estimators on three human‑annotated datasets, finding that PromptNCE achieves the best conditional probability estimates and Spearman correlations up to 0.78 for full PMI. A case study demonstrates the method’s utility for scoring student knowledge summaries in low‑data settings, and the authors release code and prompts for reproducibility.

By Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jun 21

Sub-Billion, Super-Frontier: Small Language Models Rival Zero-Shot Frontier LLMs on General and Literary Relation Extraction

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong relation extraction (RE), but their computational demands and reliance on proprietary APIs limit deployment in resource-constrained or privacy-sensitive settings. We investigate how far small language models (SLMs) can close this gap across general-domain and literary text.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 4

Can Large Language Models Generalize Procedures Across Representations?

arXiv:2602. 03542v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are trained and tested extensively on symbolic representations such as code and graphs, yet real-world user tasks are often specified in natural language.

By Fangru Lin, Valentin Hofmann, Xingchen Wan, Weixing Wang, Zifeng Ding, Anthony G. Cohn, Janet B. Pierrehumbert

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arXiv AI

Jun 24

Benchmarking LLMs' Mathematical Reasoning with Unseen Random Variables Questions

arXiv:2501. 11790v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies have raised significant concerns regarding the reliability of current mathematics benchmarks, highlighting issues such as simplistic design and potential data contamination.

By Zijin Hong, Hao Wu, Su Dong, Junnan Dong, Yilin Xiao, Yujing Zhang, Zhu Wang, Feiran Huang, Linyi Li, Hongxia Yang, Xiao Huang

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arXiv AI

Jun 10

Using Probabilistic Programs to Train Inductive Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 09856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning typically focuses on deductive tasks such as mathematics and coding where correctness is verifiable.

By Liyi Zhang, Akshay K. Jagadish, Brenden M. Lake, Thomas L. Griffiths

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arXiv AI

Jul 21

JOR-Bench: Japanese Operations Research Benchmarks for Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 16777v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present JOR-Bench, a collection of five Japanese-language benchmarks for evaluating the ability of large language models (LLMs) to formulate and solve operations research (OR) problems.

By Yuu Jinnai

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