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Classical and neural NLP: translation, question answering, tokenization and the evaluation of language understanding.

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arXiv AI
Jul 24

CRAG-MM-Diagnostics: Enabling Stage-Wise Analysis of Knowledge-Intensive VQA

arXiv:2607. 21155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) benchmarks evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as multimodal knowledge assistants by requiring external information beyond a provided image to answer questions.

By Hanseok Oh, Parishad BehnamGhader, Benno Krojer, Hyunji Lee, Paul Liang, Siva Reddy, Verna Dankers
arXiv AI
Jul 24

AISE-Bench: A Full-Cycle Curated Benchmark for Information Seeking on Academic Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2607. 20498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) augmented with tools are emerging as autonomous agents capable of using Web engine, APIs, and code to solve complex, long-horizon tasks.

By Fanjin Zhang, Zhengyang Wang, Ruixuan Huang, Kefan Zhang, Amy Xin, Yuanchun Wang, Shu Zhao, Evgeny Kharlamov, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Agentic Context Management: Solving Agent Memory and Cost by Treating Them as Lifecycle and Architecture Problems

Production AI agents' failures are less often due to an inability to reason well and more often because they cannot manage what is in their reasoning context: conversation histories, large prompts, large tool definitions, and ballooning tool outputs. Agents drown in their own accumulating history while paying a token cost that grows every turn, producing missing recalls within and across conversations.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

CRAG-MM-Diagnostics: Enabling Stage-Wise Analysis of Knowledge-Intensive VQA

Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) benchmarks evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as multimodal knowledge assistants by requiring external information beyond a provided image to answer questions. KI-VQA involves multiple sub-problems -referring expression understanding, visual grounding, object recognition, knowledge retrieval, and reasoning-yet existing benchmarks typically report only end-task accuracy, obscuring where failures arise.

arXiv AI
Jul 23

Pushing the Frontier of Full-Song Generation: Hierarchical Autoregressive Planning Meets Flow-Matching Rendering

arXiv:2607. 20253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this report, we present a unified song generation framework capable of producing high-quality full-length music from lyrics, text descriptions, and musical attributes.

By Junyu Dai, Xinyue Fan, Weiqin Li, Xiangang Li, Yunjia Li, Bin Ma, Yukun Ma, Chongjia Ni, Yufei Shi, Haoxu Wang, Menglin Wu, Jianwei Yu, Huaicheng Zhang, Han Zhao, Shengkui Zhao, Haina Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

TriAgent: Divergence-Aware Multi-Agent Committees for Cost-Efficient Financial Sentiment Analysis

arXiv:2607. 19794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production LLM-based financial sentiment analysis faces a structural cost trap: most queries are trivially classifiable, yet expensive cloud reasoners process them all, and the bill scales linearly with user count.

By Isabel Xu (The Overlake School), Cynthia Xu (The Overlake School), Rachel Ren (Edwards Vacuum Inc.), Cong Guo (The University of Memphis), Jiacheng Ding (The University of Memphis)
arXiv AI
Jul 23

When Does Knowledge Distillation Hurt? Reliability-Aware Distillation for Low-Resource Language Summarization

arXiv:2607. 19956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a standard approach for compressing sequence-to-sequence models, but its per-sample effects are rarely examined.

By Dipto Sumit, Ankan Kumar Roy Srizon, Sadia Khair Rodela, Atia Haque Asha, Mourchona Afrin, Niloy Farhan, Farig Sadeque