arXiv Computation and Language

Billiger.de Products: A Bilingual Entity Matching Benchmark

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

OpenSanctions Pairs: Large-Scale Entity Matching with LLMs

OpenSanctions Pairs is the first large‑scale public benchmark for entity matching on sanctions and OSINT data, comprising 755,540 expert‑labeled pairs drawn from over 1 million entities across 293 source datasets and 45 jurisdictions. The dataset spans multiple languages and writing systems, inconsistent structures, and time‑varying provenance, making it far more heterogeneous than prior benchmarks. Baseline experiments show a rule‑based matcher achieving 91.3 % F1, GPT‑4o reaching 99.0 % F1, and a locally deployable open‑source model scoring 98.2 % F1, with complementary failure modes that highlight the need to focus on downstream pipeline components.

By Chandler Smith, Magnus Sesodia, Friedrich Lindenberg, Christian Schroeder de Witt
arXiv AI
Aug 20

When Do LLMs Actually Help? Evaluating LLMs as Data Quality Annotators

The paper evaluates large language models (LLMs) as data quality annotators on two e-commerce tasks: entity matching and brand mislabeling. In entity matching, a simple rule-based baseline matched the LLM’s zero-shot performance (F1≈0.95), and a few-shot prompt actually lowered performance, highlighting the risk of small-sample prompt tuning. For brand mislabeling, the LLM outperformed a naive rule baseline (F1 0.833 vs 0.721) by leveraging background knowledge, and demonstrated high consistency across repeated runs (99.7% agreement).

By Praphulla Lal Shrestha
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 17

English Word Sense Disambiguation in 2026: When the Labels Become the Bottleneck

The paper reports that in English all‑words word sense disambiguation (WSD), the scarcity of high‑quality labels—not the models—has become the limiting factor. The authors introduce lexEN, a human‑adjudicated correction layer over the Maru2022 ALL_NEW benchmark, and SenseBench, a living leaderboard for LLM WSD evaluation. They show that frontier large language models reach about 95 % accuracy on lexEN‑v1, that relabeling corpora with these models improves downstream systems, and that fine‑grained WordNet senses are often ill‑posed, with coarsening improving both annotator agreement and model performance. "whyItMatters":"The study highlights that improving label quality and managing annotation costs are now the critical challenges for advancing WSD performance, as model accuracy is already near its theoretical ceiling."

By Vassili Philippov, Amro Salman, Dmitrii Andreev, Penny Hands, Emil Kaiumov, Pavel Katunin, Anton Nikolaev
arXiv AI
Oct 5

Multilingual GSM-Symbolic: What determines capability transfer across languages?

The paper introduces Multilingual GSM‑Symbolic, a large multilingual math dataset with 30,000 question‑answer pairs across 15 languages, designed to evaluate cross‑lingual capability transfer using symbolic templates that generate millions of variations. It quantifies key determinants of transfer—model size, language resource level, reasoning ability, and typological distance—showing that larger models and better reasoning reduce performance gaps between low‑ and high‑resource languages, while typological distance has limited impact. The authors present a predictive framework that explains 92 % of language‑to‑language variation and can estimate unseen language performance within 6 pp, improving to 4.2 pp with only ten target‑language templates.

By Kenneth Enevoldsen, Riley Herchert, Sofie Mosegaard, Dan Saattrup Smart, Simon Enni, Isaac Chung, Sofie Bruun, Ayush Sunil Munot, Max M\"uller-Eberstein, Adnan El-Assadi, Elisa Bassignana, Gianluca Barmina, Hafsteinn Einarsson, Iben Nyholm Debess, Linda Freienthal, Lukas Galke Poech, Mike Zhang, Nicolas Legrand, Vladimir Salnikov, Yevhen Kostiuk, Zafar Hussain, Sagandeep Kaur, Agnes Toftg{\aa}rd, Marie Mattson, Kristoffer Nielbo
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

Compass-v3: Scaling Domain-Specific LLMs for Multilingual E-Commerce in Southeast Asia

Compass‑v3 is a 245B‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts language model tailored for Southeast Asian e‑commerce, featuring 71B active parameters per token and hardware‑efficient expert parallelism. It is trained on 12 trillion multilingual tokens and synthetic e‑commerce instructions, and incorporates Optimal‑Transport Direct Preference Optimization to improve instruction adherence. Benchmarks show it outperforms GPT‑4, DeepSeek‑V3.1, and Qwen3‑235B, and it is already deployed at scale on Shopee, handling over 70% of the platform’s LLM traffic.

By Sophia Maria