arXiv Computation and Language

Edit Policy-Aligned Text Simplification

The paper introduces a method for text simplification that uses a Large Language Model-as-a-Judge (LLM‑Judge) to automatically generate policy‑aligned training data, eliminating the need for costly human annotation or parallel corpora. This approach allows simplification models to adapt to various policies—such as lexical‑focused simplification or overall rewriting that trades detail for simplicity—at both sentence and document levels. Experiments show that small‑scale open‑source LLMs can match or surpass GPT‑5, with consistent improvements across model families and sizes.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 16

Enhancing Accessibility of Medical Texts through Large Language Model-Driven Plain Language Adaptation

The paper explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o-mini, Gemini-1.5-pro, and LLaMA can be used to automatically simplify complex medical texts into plain language, a process known as Plain Language Adaptation (PLA). It evaluates different prompting strategies, fine‑tunes models with QLoRA, and incorporates Mixture‑of‑Agents (MoA) techniques to improve adaptability and robustness. The results show that LLM‑driven PLA effectively makes healthcare information more comprehensible while preserving essential content.

By Ting-Wei Chang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

A Factorial Study of Synthetic Data Generation for Low-Resource Machine Translation using Grammar Books

The paper presents a pipeline that leverages large language models to extract grammatical rules, example sentences, and lexicons from descriptive grammar books, producing synthetic parallel corpora for fine‑tuning machine translation models. Evaluated on three low‑resource languages—Kalamang, Tuatschin, and Mandan—the synthetic data improves translation quality over seed‑data baselines in 75% of configurations for Kalamang and 59% for Tuatschin, achieving up to +8.8 ChrF++ gains. A factorial study across 96 configurations identifies which combinations of target part‑of‑speech, retrieval granularity, and sample volume drive performance gains and where they fail, demonstrating that static linguistic documentation can be repurposed for practical translation tools for severely under‑resourced languages.

By Varun Ghat Ravikumar, Sina Ahmadi, Lena J\"ager, Rico Sennrich
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 2

InComeS: Integrating Compression and Selection Mechanisms into LLMs for Efficient Model Editing

InComeS is a framework that improves large language models (LLMs) for model editing by compressing editing contexts into a key‑value cache associated with a special gist token. It adds cross‑attention modules to dynamically select the most relevant information from these gist pools, allowing efficient handling of multiple edits beyond the LLM’s context window. Experiments on diverse editing benchmarks show that InComeS enhances both effectiveness and efficiency compared to existing methods.

By Shuaiyi Li, Zhisong Zhang, Yang Deng, Chenlong Deng, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu, Wai Lam
arXiv AI
Oct 27

DynEdit: Dynamic Entropy-Guided Sequential Editing for Large Language Models

DynEdit is a dynamic framework for editing long-sequence knowledge in large language models. It uses token-level entropy to guide non-uniform sliding windows, focusing on high-entropy, information-dense regions that are harder to edit. Experiments on three benchmarks and two backbone models show DynEdit outperforms baselines, achieving up to +14.0 BLEU points on challenging paraphrase queries and near-saturated semantic scores across diverse knowledge domains.

By Jinhu Fu, Yan Bai, Yihang Lou, Li Sun, Jiahong Wu, Xiangxiang Chu, Sen Su
arXiv AI
Jun 16

SpecAlign: Efficient Specification-Grounded Alignment of Large Language Models via Synthetic Data

arXiv:2606. 16276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, alignment is no longer governed by a single universal notion of safety or helpfulness, but instead by provider- or application-specific model specifications.

By Wenjie Wang, Yue Huang, Zhengqing Yuan, Han Bao, Shiyi Du, Yuchen Ma, Yue Zhao, Yanfang Ye, Xiangliang Zhang