arXiv Computation and Language

What Language Models Know But Don't Say: Non-Generative Prior Extraction for Generalization

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

DataPrep-Bench: Benchmarking LLMs as Training Data Preparators

arXiv:2607. 20465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quality of training data fundamentally determines the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet no unified benchmark exists to measure how well LLMs, agents, and data-centric workflows actually prepare training data end to end.

By Hao Liang, Qifeng Cai, Yibo Lin, Jianzhuo Du, Qifeng Xia, Sizhe Qiu, Linzhuang Sun, Meiyi Qiang, Zhaoyang Han, Xiaochen Ma, Bohan Zeng, Ruichuan An, Conghui He, Wentao Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

DECSELFMASK: Leveraging Unlabeled Text via Self-Relevance-Guided Masking for Decoder-Only Classification

DECSELFMASK is a decoder‑only classification method that uses unlabeled clinical text to improve performance. It creates self‑supervised training examples by masking portions of the text identified as relevant through relevance attribution, then trains the model to reconstruct the masked tokens via next‑token prediction. Experiments on 136 tasks from 1.9 M Italian hospital notes show consistent gains across five models, outperforming base models (+9.1 Macro F1), continual pretraining (+6.3), and synthetic label generation (+12.5).

By Pietro Ferrazzi, Matteo Merler, Giovanni Bonetta, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini