arXiv AI

InFerActive: Interactive Tree-Based Exploration of LLM Sampling for Safety Evaluation

arXiv:2512. 10234v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Even LLMs that appear safe during evaluation can still produce harmful responses in deployment.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

SpreadsheetArena: Decomposing Preference in LLM Generation of Spreadsheet Workbooks

arXiv:2603. 10002v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider the task of end-to-end spreadsheet generation, where language models produce spreadsheet artifacts to satisfy users' explicit and implicit constraints, specified in natural language.

By Srivatsa Kundurthy, Clara Na, Michael Handley, Zach Kirshner, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Manasi Sharma, Emma Strubell, John Ling
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Mutual Debiasing via Dual-Seed Comparison for Probabilistic Sampling in Large Language Models

The paper introduces Dual-Seed Comparison (DSC), a protocol that uses two independent LLM-generated seeds to reduce systematic bias in probabilistic sampling. DSC constructs a bit sequence from the character-level ordinal values of the seeds, normalizes it into a pseudo-uniform variate, and maps it to the target distribution via the inverse cumulative distribution function. Empirical results show DSC outperforms existing methods in 96% of evaluated settings and enhances distributional control in tasks like MCQ generation and attribute-constrained text-to-image prompting.

By Zihao Guo, Hongtao Lv, Chaoli Zhang, Laiguo Yin, Lei Liu, Yonghui Xu, Lizhen Cui
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

TACTICS: Taxonomy-Aware Intelligent Corpus Sampling for Machine Translation

TACTICS is a method for selecting evaluation samples in machine translation that explicitly optimizes for coverage of rare linguistic categories, document-level coherence, and distributional fidelity to the full corpus. It builds a hierarchical taxonomy from a locale style guide, classifies segments, and chooses a fixed-budget subset that better represents the full range of phenomena a system must handle. Compared to random, lexical, or embedding-based selection, TACTICS improves coverage of rare categories and yields more accurate system rankings with fewer segments.

By Prasanth Bathala, Anubhav Shrimal, Sukhdeep Singh Kharbhanda, Pradyumna Lanka, Rohit Dhaipule
arXiv AI
Sep 15

VisInteract: Towards Dynamic Interactive Text-to-Visualization under Imperfect Queries

VisInteract introduces a new paradigm for Text-to-Visualization that treats imperfect user queries as a dynamic, interaction-driven problem, requiring the system to recover true intent through multi-turn dialogue. The authors present VisInteract-Bench, the first benchmark for interactive Text-to-Vis, featuring controlled imperfection injection, a realistic user agent, and dual-perspective automated evaluation. They also propose Vis-MCTS, an enhanced Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm that incorporates progressive widening, cross-rollout information sharing, and dimension-aware reward decomposition, achieving significant performance gains over existing baselines.

By Wenxin Xu, Jinwei Lu, Hwanhee Kim, Chen Jason Zhang, Xiao-Yong Wei, Haoyang Li, Yuanfeng Song
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

User Feedback Provides a Unique Signal that LLMs Can not Detect

The paper argues that user feedback from real interactions is a valuable learning signal for Large Language Models (LLMs), contrary to recent claims that it is too noisy to use. By creating synthetic data with a clear ground truth and testing on naturalistic data, the authors show that revisions guided by user feedback fix targeted issues more often than baseline revisions. They further reveal that current evaluation methods bias against feedback‑driven improvements, as judges tend to overlook genuinely corrected responses and favor inferior baselines.

By Shachar Don-Yehiya, Leshem Choshen, Omri Abend
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement

arXiv:2606. 27226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating LLM outputs remains a major bottleneck in NLP: human evaluation is expensive and slow, lexical metrics correlate poorly with human judgments on open-ended generation, and holistic LLM judges often produce opaque scores that are hard to debug.

By Sangwoo Cho, Kushal Chawla, Pengshan Cai, Zefang Liu, Chenyang Zhu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Sambit Sahu