Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 7

TORINO: Token Reduction via Interpretable Concept Overlap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model.

By Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Do Vision-Language-Action Models Mean What They Say? On the Role of Faithfulness in Embodied Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 04681v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied Chain-of-Thought has emerged as a promising mechanism to enhance robot decision-making and interpretability in black-box Vision-Language Action (VLA) models.

By Matthew Foutter, Matteo Cercola, Lena Wild, Yunshan Wang, Michelle Li, Daniele Gammelli, Marco Pavone
arXiv AI
Jul 7

HamQASBench: A Hamiltonian-Informed Diagnostic Benchmark for Evaluating Quantum Architecture Search

arXiv:2607. 04845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) automates the design of parameterized quantum circuits for variational quantum algorithms, yet existing benchmarks organize instances by molecular identity or qubit count -- criteria agnostic to Hamiltonian structure -- and rely solely on energy accuracy, which cannot detect structural failures such as over-parameterization on near-product ground states.

By Jiayang Niu, Akib Karim, Yan Wang, Jie Li, Ke Deng, Azadeh Alavi, Muhammad Usman, Yongli Ren
arXiv AI
Jul 7

SilvaScenes: Tree Detection and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests

arXiv:2510. 09458v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interest in forestry automation is growing alongside rapid advances in deep learning.

By David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson, Arthur Larochelle-Tremblay, Martine Lapointe, Th\'eo Defosse, Fr\'ed\'eric Moore, Philippe Nolet, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
arXiv AI
Jul 7

StarTSE: Towards Streaming Target Speaker Extraction via Chunk-wise Interleaved Splicing of Autoregressive Language Model

arXiv:2604. 19635v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While generative models have set new benchmarks for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE), their inherent reliance on global context precludes deployment in real-time applications.

By Shuhai Peng, Hui Lu, Jinjiang Liu, Liyang Chen, Guiping Zhong, Jiakui Li, Huimeng Wang, Haiyun Li, Liang Cao, Shiyin Kang, Zhiyong Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Social Networks of LLM Agents

arXiv:2607. 03695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in interacting populations, raising the question of what such populations come to believe collectively.

By Kaixuan Liu, Guojun Xiong, Weinan Zhang, Shengpu Tang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Adversarial LassoNet: Robust Feature Selection via Stability-Driven Sparse Learning

arXiv:2607. 03839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse feature selection is critical for high-dimensional machine learning, yet traditional $\ell_1$-regularized methods are often brittle under observational noise and spurious correlations, leading to unstable feature supports and degraded generalization.

By Zhen Huang, Peicheng Xu, Junbiao Pang, Yulong Zheng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Knowing When to Stop: Predicting Execution-Consistency Convergence in Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2607. 03991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repeated LLM calls are the standard way to estimate how trustworthy a Text-to-SQL result is: run the pipeline multiple times, judge each SQL execution, and use the consistency of the verdicts as a confidence signal.

By Yaron Anavi, Mor Aisenberg, Nadav Nesher, Elena Khabibullina, Isabella Cattinelli
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

QEDBENCH: Quantifying the Alignment Gap in Automated Evaluation of University-Level Mathematical Proofs

arXiv:2602. 20629v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) saturate elementary benchmarks, the research frontier has shifted from generation to the reliability of automated evaluation.

By Santiago Gonzalez, Alireza Amiri Bavandpour, Peter Ye, Edward Zhang, Ruslans Aleksejevs, Todor Anti\'c, Polina Baron, Sujeet Bhalerao, Shubhrajit Bhattacharya, Zachary Burton, John Byrne, Hyungjun Choi, Nujhat Ahmed Disha, Koppany Istv\'an Encz, Yuchen Fang, Robert Joseph George, Ebrahim Ghorbani, Alan Goldfarb, Jing Guo, Meghal Gupta, Stefano Huber, Annika Kanckos, Minjung Kang, Hyun Jong Kim, Dino Lorenzini, Levi Lorenzo, Tianyi Mao, Giovanni Marzenta, Ariane M. Masuda, Lukas Mauth, Ana Mickovic, Andres Miniguano-Trujillo, Antoine Moulin, Wenqi Ni, Tomos Parry, Kevin Ren, Hossein Roodbarani, Mathieu Rundstr\"om, Manjil Saikia, Detchat Samart, Rebecca Steiner, Connor Stewart, Dhara Thakkar, Jeffrey Tse, Vasiliki Velona, Yunhai Xiang, Sibel Yal\c{c}{\i}n, Jun Yan, Ji Zeng, Arman Cohan, Quanquan C. Liu