arXiv:2503. 06573v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent LLMs have shown remarkable success in following user instructions, yet handling instructions with multiple constraints remains a significant challenge.
By Gili Lior, Asaf Yehudai, Ariel Gera, Liat Ein-Dor
arXiv:2606. 03624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in many tasks, yet they struggle with reliably following multiple instructions, either by failing to satisfy individual constraints or by struggling to balance competing constraints simultaneously.
By Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Huimin Wang, Zezhong Wang, Yutian Zhao, Yefeng Zheng, Binyang Li, Yulan He, Kam-Fai Wong, Xian Wu
Instruction-following ability is critical for deploying large language models in real-world applications, where downstream components depend on the output satisfying specific constraints. Modern deployments increasingly handle the full task in a single LLM call, with one prompt specifying a layered output whose overall artifact, structural sections, and nested fields must each satisfy concrete constraints.
arXiv:2607. 22649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Following complex instructions with multiple explicit constraints remains a fundamental challenge for large language models (LLMs).
By Jian Hong, Chen Cheng, Quan Liu, Yuhao Chen, Enhong Chen
The paper introduces soft‑prompt tuning as a lightweight, automated method for evaluating large language models (LLMs). By optimizing only ten soft‑prompt vectors—about 0.0006% of a 7B model’s parameters—within 150 steps, the approach adapts models to specific benchmark formats, improving format compliance while preserving knowledge accuracy. Experiments across seven models and eleven datasets show that this method matches strong evaluation‑harness baselines, enhances evaluation signals on challenging datasets, and yields cleaner outputs that align better with exact‑match scoring and independent LLM judges.
By Selen Erkan, Bastian Boll, Kristian Kersting, Bj\"orn Deiseroth, Letitia Parcalabescu
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in many tasks, yet they struggle with reliably following multiple instructions, either by failing to satisfy individual constraints or by struggling to balance competing constraints simultaneously. We formalize this challenge as the Constraint Adherence Problem (CAP).