The paper introduces VOLM, a framework that quantifies how much original value a human adds to a document beyond what a language model could generate from a task description alone. Unlike existing tools that focus on stylistic detection, VOLM extracts content at varying granularities, reconstructs it with an LLM, and compares these reconstructions to those derived from the task description. Evaluations across news articles, ICLR peer reviews, and argumentative essays show that VOLM can distinguish human-authored texts from LLM-generated ones while remaining robust to content-preserving transformations.
By Vibhhu Sharma, Thorsten Joachims, Sarah Dean
arXiv:2606. 10327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Essay Scoring (AES) systems must judge interdependent discourse elements (e.
By Ali Keramati, Mark Warschauer
The paper introduces Intelligent Target Locator (ITL), a method that measures how well a document aligns with concepts in a Structured Reference Document (SRD) by creating concept‑specific term profiles and computing a textual‑unit–concept affinity matrix. ITL assigns importance weights to terms based on concept membership, term specificity, and discriminability, enabling traceable, quantitative alignment scores at multiple granularity levels. An internal consistency test on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals showed that each goal statement achieved its highest affinity with its corresponding concept, demonstrating ITL’s ability to distinguish conceptual profiles.
By Ra\'ul Gir\'aldez, Dayrelis Mena, Jes\'us S. Aguilar--Ruiz
Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong relation extraction (RE), but their computational demands and reliance on proprietary APIs limit deployment in resource-constrained or privacy-sensitive settings. We investigate how far small language models (SLMs) can close this gap across general-domain and literary text.
arXiv:2606. 00467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for zero-shot annotation and LLM-as-a-judge tasks, yet their reliability hinges on how model-internalized priors interact with user-provided instructions.
By Etienne Casanova, Rafal Kocielnik, R. Michael Alvarez
arXiv:2606. 11198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems inject external knowledge to improve LLM outputs, yet the format of injected content -- distinct from its semantic relevance -- can independently distort the model's attention distribution.
By Yuqi Zhang, Di Zhang