Benchmarks and evaluation

Leaderboards, eval harnesses and ablations — the contested business of deciding which model is actually better.

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arXiv AI
Jun 8

The Masked Advantage: Uncovering Local-Language Access to Cultural Knowledge in LLMs

arXiv:2606. 07422v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to answer culturally grounded questions across languages, yet it remains unclear whether local cultural knowledge is better accessed through English or the local language.

By Yang Zhang, Xiao Fei, Amr Mohamed, Sarah Almeida Carneiro, Mersin Konomi, Mingmeng Geng, Ahmed Asaad, Guokan Shang, Michalis Vazirgiannis
arXiv AI
Jun 8

MatterDoor: Sampling Zero-shot Spatio-semantic Priors using Generative Models

arXiv:2510. 11014v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous robots often view rooms only partially, through a doorway, where the walls and scene structure hide the geometry and task-relevant semantics needed for safe navigation and goal-directed action.

By Subhransu S. Bhattacharjee, Hao Lu, Dylan Campbell, Rahul Shome
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

High entropy leads to symmetry-equivariant policies in Dec-POMDPs

arXiv:2511. 22581v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We prove that in any Dec-POMDP, sufficiently high entropy regularization ensures that the policy gradient flow with tabular softmax parametrization always converges, for any initialization, to the same joint policy, and that this joint policy is equivariant w.

By Johannes Forkel, Constantin Ruhdorfer, Michael Beukman, Andreas Bulling, Jakob Foerster
arXiv AI
Jun 8

MacArena: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents on an Online macOS Environment

arXiv:2606. 06560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) operate graphical user interfaces (GUIs) through vision and control primitives, and their capabilities have advanced rapidly, driven in part by standardized online evaluation benchmarks such as OSWorld, which serve both as evaluation tools and as training environments for reinforcement learning.

By Victor Muryn, Maksym Shamrai, Sofiia Mazepa, Yehor Khodysko