Halal-NeSyNet is a neuro‑symbolic model that uses a DistilBERT encoder and a 16‑dimensional rule‑derived symbolic vector to audit food ingredient clauses for Halal compliance. It was evaluated on a benchmark of 3,199 items, achieving over 97 % accuracy and 99.7 % counterfactual consistency, far surpassing text‑only baselines. The model’s performance demonstrates the importance of clause‑scoped symbolic features for accurate risk‑aware Halal logistics triage.
arXiv:2607. 23273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational nutrition needs precise ingredient data, but current databases are incomplete, inconsistent, and built for human reference rather than automated reasoning.
The study evaluates whether aggregated brand recommendation profiles can identify the language model that generated them. Using 6,475 responses from five deployed endpoints, a character‑n‑gram classifier accurately attributes single responses to the correct system (97.84% accuracy). However, when responses are aggregated into domain‑condition units, the classifier’s performance drops to 66.53%, and a forest model misclassifies all gift‑domain units, indicating that aggregated brand behaviour does not reliably reveal the underlying system.
arXiv:2608. 14329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principle-based regulation, with evaluative standards such as "fair, clear, and not misleading" or "deliver good outcomes", cannot be reduced to binary predicates, and LLM-as-judge is increasingly used as the substitute.
arXiv:2608. 10216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent frameworks ship quality gates that compare text blocks by embedding-cosine similarity and decide at a fixed cutoff.
arXiv:2609.15427v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using food package images to monitor sodium and salt content against South Africa's R214 sodium limits is challenging when screening decisions requir...
arXiv:2609.22767v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The IEEE BigData Cup benchmark combines three prediction problems with different output structures: ordinal suicide-risk classification, multi-label...
arXiv:2606. 29243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present KrishokChat, the first citation-grounded Bengali agricultural instruction-tuning dataset for crop advisory in low-resource settings.
arXiv:2609.22227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative retrieval represents each item by a short Semantic ID and casts recommendation as autoregressive generation of that sequence. Because the...
The paper identifies a new problem in clinical natural language processing called the clinical lost‑in‑the‑middle (CLitM) effect, where large language models perform poorly on information located near the center of long electronic health record (EHR) documents. Using the MedAlign dataset, the authors quantify a 21.9‑percentage‑point accuracy gap across 2,196 instruction‑response pairs and six models, showing that most critical facts lie in the CLitM trough. They propose Query‑Conditioned Clinical Suppression (QCCS), a lightweight context‑selection gate that outperforms traditional retrieval methods (BM25, dense retrieval, cross‑encoder reranking) on a held‑out set of 83 instructions, achieving up to 25.3% accuracy for middle‑position queries. whyItMatters":"The study demonstrates that standard retrieval strategies fail to reliably surface central clinical information, and that a query‑aligned selection mechanism can substantially improve model performance on critical EHR data."
The paper introduces PACT, a tuning method for single-token typed-decision models that leverages contrastive pair data to add four training terms—difference-in-differences margin, permutation-consistency, evidence-necessity, and ordinal transport cost—without requiring new annotations. PACT achieves comparable accuracy to existing recipes while reducing position bias and ordinal error, and it improves robustness and stability across seeds. The authors provide code, data splits, and trained adapters for reproducibility.
arXiv:2606. 24259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuned encoders deployed across heterogeneous NLP tasks face three compounding problems: mismatched inductive biases, class-imbalance corruption of feature statistics, and no mechanism to condition attention on external lexical knowledge.
The paper proposes a training‑free detector that uses sentence‑level context sensitivity to identify unsupported content in retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) answers. By re‑scoring each sentence with full context, no context, and each chunk removed, the method flags the chunk whose removal most reduces a sentence’s likelihood as the likely source. Evaluated on RAGTruth, TofuEval, and RAGBench, the detector outperforms answer‑level faithfulness scores, achieving AUCs up to 0.745 and matching per‑chunk fact‑checkers while using only a fraction of the compute required by large‑language‑model judges.