arXiv AI

Accuracy and Reliability of Large Language Models in Cosmetic Chemistry and Skin Health: A Benchmarking Study

arXiv:2608. 14631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As consumers increasingly turn to AI chatbots for skincare advice, the technical accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in cosmetic chemistry remains largely under-evaluated.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

Designing a Robust LLM-Based Evaluation System for Agentic AI in Drug Discovery Through Human Alignment

The paper introduces an LLM-as-a-Judge framework for evaluating the outputs of an agentic drug discovery assistant, ChatInvent, deployed at AstraZeneca. It defines four quality dimensions—Completeness, Relevancy, Structural Clarity, and Scope Adherence—alongside deterministic Tool Call Correctness checks, and validates the judge against five expert annotators. After optimizing the best-performing judge with few-shot demonstrations, alignment with human majority votes improves from 0.80 to 0.86, and the framework reveals that informal question phrasing does not degrade output quality.

By Emma Granqvist, Roc\'io Mercado, Samuel Genheden
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 26

NodeSyn: Socially Aligned Synthetic Data for AI Evaluation

NodeSyn is a method that generates socially aligned synthetic data for evaluating AI models. It combines a fine‑tuned taxonomy generator with credible sources and sensitive attributes to produce queries that reflect real societal contexts and nuanced harms. In tests across ten LLMs in Medical Advice and Self‑Harm, NodeSyn outperformed generic synthetic baselines, raising failure rates significantly and revealing that failures stem from both topic selection and sociotechnical grounding.

By Qazi Mamunur Rashid, Xuan Yang, Zhengzhe Yang, Yanzhou Pan, Erin van Liemt, Darlene Neal, Kshitij Pancholi, Jamila Smith-Loud
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2608. 06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in scientific discovery, yet it remains unclear whether they can support complex real laboratory science.

By Taolin Han, Yuchen Zhang, Jinghang Wang, Yun Wu, Wai Yuet Chiu, Zhaohai Li, Yifei Zhang, Jinxin Wang, Yuhao Zhou, Chen Zhao, Jiajia Li, Jiaxin Li, Qile Jin, Kewei Sun, Shuang Wu, Weiqi Zhai, Renquan Lv, Junchao Li, Ruodan Chen, Qingteng Chen, Zhibo Yang, Hu Wei, Lin Qu, Shuai Bai, Bing Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

NodeSynth: Socially Aligned Synthetic Data for AI Evaluation

NodeSynth is a method that generates socially aligned synthetic data by combining a fine‑tuned taxonomy generator with credible sources and extracted sensitive attributes to produce queries that reflect real societal contexts and nuanced harms. In evaluations across ten open‑weight and proprietary large language models on Medical Advice and Self‑Harm tasks, NodeSynth outperformed generic synthetic baselines, structured synthetic benchmarks, and authentic human‑authored queries, inducing higher failure rates that highlight model vulnerabilities. Ablation and variance attribution studies show that the granular Level 3 taxonomic expansion and sociotechnical grounding of queries drive these failure rates, underscoring the importance of nuanced data for high‑stakes evaluation.

By Qazi Mamunur Rashid, Xuan Yang, Zhengzhe Yang, Yanzhou Pan, Erin van Liemt, Darlene Neal, Kshitij Pancholi, Jamila Smith-Loud
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Beauty is in the AI of the beholder: MLLMs systematically overrate facial attractiveness

Beauty assessments from Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly popular, prompting a study comparing 2,513 human ratings to four commercial AI models—Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Grok. The study found that MLLMs consistently rate faces more favorably and with a narrower range than humans, yet they maintain strong correlations with human judgments and accurately track the rank‑ordering of faces. While all models agree strongly with each other, Grok showed the lowest agreement with human ratings, and only face age emerged as a common predictor of attractiveness across humans and MLLMs.

By Santiago Grandas, Juan Sebastian Cely-Acosta, Mohit Mendiratta, Shafee Hassan, Macken Murphy