Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Can Large Language Models Reliably Code Qualitative Humanitarian Data? A Benchmark Study Against Human Expert Adjudication

arXiv:2606. 26541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data from affected populations are crucial for informing humanitarian response, but their value depends on timely and consistent interpretation of nuanced accounts of need.

By Jerome Marston, Tino Kreutzer, Salom\'e Garnier, Ella Boone, Phuong N Pham, Patrick Vinck
arXiv AI
Jun 26

XMSE-Aware Adaptive Empirical Bayes Estimation

arXiv:2606. 26975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empirical Bayes (EB) estimators can match the first-order asymptotic risk of maximum likelihood (ML) while behaving very differently at second order: recent excess mean squared error (XMSE) analysis shows that kernel-based EB estimation may be worse than ML when the kernel is poorly aligned with the true parameter.

By Minghao Chen, Jiale Zheng
arXiv AI
Jun 26

MedPruner: Training-Free Hierarchical Token Pruning for Efficient 3D Medical Image Understanding in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2603. 11625v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While specialized Medical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in interpreting 2D and 3D medical modalities, their deployment for 3D volumetric data remains constrained by significant computational inefficiencies.

By Shengyuan Liu, Zanting Ye, Yunrui Lin, Chen Hu, Wanting Geng, Xu Han, Bulat Ibragimov, Yefeng Zheng, Yixuan Yuan
arXiv AI
Jun 26

TOPS: First-Principles Visual Token Pruning via Constructing Token Optimal Preservation Sets for Efficient MLLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 27161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but their efficiency is limited by the large number of visual tokens, which introduces substantial computational overhead.

By Tinghao Wang, Yichen Guo, Rui Huang, Zheng Lu, Qizhe Zhang, Chenxi Li, Yuan Zhang, Jiajun Cao, Zhirong Shen, Yaosong Du, Guangyan Gan, Wenya Wang, Lin William Cong, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Mitigating Hallucinations via Inter-Layer Consistency Aggregation in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2505. 12343v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the impressive capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they remain susceptible to hallucinations, where generated content is inconsistent with the input image.

By Kai Tang, Jinhao You, Yichen Guo, Yiding Sun, Dongxu Zhang, Wenya Wang, Hanze Li, Tao Luo, Renyuan Li, Xiande Huang
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Unsupervised Memory-Enhanced Video Transformers: Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Agricultural Rover

arXiv:2606. 26151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While autonomous rovers have become indispensable to precision farming, achieving consistent operational safety remains a critical challenge.

By Th\'eo Biardeau (XLIM-ASALI, UFR SFA), Anne-Sophie Capelle-Laiz\'e (UP, XLIM-ASALI, XLIM-ASALI), Salwan Alwan (UFR SFA), David Helbert (UFR SFA)
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement

arXiv:2606. 27226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating LLM outputs remains a major bottleneck in NLP: human evaluation is expensive and slow, lexical metrics correlate poorly with human judgments on open-ended generation, and holistic LLM judges often produce opaque scores that are hard to debug.

By Sangwoo Cho, Kushal Chawla, Pengshan Cai, Zefang Liu, Chenyang Zhu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Sambit Sahu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching Policies for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2510. 09976v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models such as OpenVLA, Octo, and $\pi_0$ have shown strong generalization by leveraging large-scale demonstrations, yet their performance is still fundamentally constrained by the quality and coverage of supervised data.

By Mingyang Lyu, Yinqian Sun, Erliang Lin, Huangrui Li, Ruolin Chen, Feifei Zhao, Yi Zeng
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Joint Reward Modeling: Internalizing Chain-of-Thought for Efficient Visual Reward Models

arXiv:2602. 07533v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reward models are critical for reinforcement learning from human feedback, as they determine the alignment quality and reliability of generative models.

By Yankai Yang, Yancheng Long, Hongyang Wei, Wei Chen, Tianke Zhang, Kaiyu Jiang, Haonan Fan, Changyi Liu, Jiankang Chen, Kaiyu Tang, Bin Wen, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Han Li, Shuo Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Jailbreaking for the Average Jane: Choosing Optimal Jailbreaks via Bandit Algorithms for Automatically Enhanced Queries

arXiv:2606. 26936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With a profusion of jailbreaks for LLMs now widely known, a growing concern is that non-expert malicious actors ("the average Jane") could elicit actionable responses to malicious requests.

By Prarabdh Shukla, Ritik, Suhas Rao, Arpit Agarwal, Arjun Bhagoji