arXiv AI
Aug 5
Instruction Stacking Collapse: A Benchmark and the Capability-Dependent Value of Prompt Compilation
arXiv:2608. 02639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production prompts rarely carry a single instruction.
LLM Self-Correction with DeCRIM: Decompose, Critique, and Refine for Enhanced Following of Instructions with Multiple Constraints
arXiv:2410. 06458v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruction following is a key capability for LLMs.
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arXiv AI
Jun 12
WildIFEval: Instruction Following in the Wild
arXiv:2503. 06573v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent LLMs have shown remarkable success in following user instructions, yet handling instructions with multiple constraints remains a significant challenge.
arXiv AI
Aug 24
PromptResponse: Optimizing Prompts for LLM Coding Tasks
arXiv:2608.21074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in research workflows and software development pipelines, yet their output remains sensitive to in...
arXiv AI
Sep 4
RECAST: Expanding the Boundaries of LLMs' Complex Instruction Following with Multi-Constraint Data
RECAST is a new framework that generates datasets with far more constraints per example than existing benchmarks, aiming to push large language models (LLMs) to better follow complex instructions. The authors built RECAST-30K, a 30,000‑instance dataset covering 19 constraint types extracted from real prompt‑response pairs, and showed that fine‑tuning on it improves LLMs’ ability to handle complex tasks without harming general performance. RECAST also provides rule‑based and LLM‑based validators for automatic constraint verification, enabling reward‑based reinforcement learning to further enhance model performance on challenging tasks.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30
IFHierBench: Hierarchical Instruction Following for Large Language Models
Instruction-following ability is critical for deploying large language models in real-world applications, where downstream components depend on the output satisfying specific constraints. Modern deployments increasingly handle the full task in a single LLM call, with one prompt specifying a layered output whose overall artifact, structural sections, and nested fields must each satisfy concrete constraints.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14
FineInstructions: Scaling Synthetic Instructions to Pre-Training Scale
arXiv:2601. 22146v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Due to limited supervised training data, large language models (LLMs) are typically pre-trained via a self-supervised "predict the next word" objective on a vast amount of unstructured text data.
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago
Offline Guidance, Online Reasoning: Reusing LLM Feedback for Small Language Models
arXiv:2609.39346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) offer strong reasoning capabilities but are often costly to access through commercial APIs, while small language models (S...
arXiv AI
Aug 18
ReLoop: Structured Modeling and Behavioral Verification for Reliable LLM-Based Optimization
arXiv:2602. 15983v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural language into optimization code, but silent failures pose a critical risk: code that executes and returns solver-feasible solutions may encode semantically incorrect formulations---a feasibility--correctness gap reaching 90 percentage points on compositional problems.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3
Overcoming the Weakest-Link Effect in LLM-Driven Program Optimization via Heterogeneous Edit Recombination
arXiv:2607. 28947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to solve complex problems by searching over program space, offering a general paradigm for scientific problems that can be naturally represented and solved as programs.
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11
Larger Context Window, Fewer Overcorrections: Optimizing Prompts and Batching for Minimal-Edit Grammatical Error Correction
The paper presents a prompt-based method for minimal-edit grammatical error correction (GEC) that reduces overcorrection in large language models (LLMs). It introduces taxonomy-based instructions, batch prompting to regularize overcorrection, and LLM-assisted prompt optimization, achieving an $F_{0.5}$ score of 78.32 on BEA-2019 with Gemini 3.1-Pro. This approach narrows the performance gap to fine-tuned models while avoiding their infrastructure demands.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 1
CRAFT: Fine-Tuning Pre-hoc Explainability in AI-native 6G RAN
The next generation of mobile networks is envisioned as fully AI-native, with AI-RAN architectures embedding small language models (SLMs) to perform reasoning over real-time telemetry. The state-of-th...
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2
CRAFT: Fine-Tuning Pre-hoc Explainability in AI-native 6G RAN
The paper introduces CRAFT, a data‑centric fine‑tuning approach that aligns small language models (SLMs) for pre‑hoc reasoning in AI‑native 6G radio access networks (RAN). By automatically generating verified (input, trace, label) triplets and fine‑tuning with low‑rank adaptation, CRAFT achieves high accuracy and F1 scores on TRACTOR and IC xApp datasets while avoiding parse failures that plague RL methods like GRPO. It also reduces energy consumption by 59% compared to GRPO baselines, offering a more sustainable path to auditable AI in 6G RAN.