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

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arXiv AI
Aug 6

Privileged, but Biased: How PI-Conditioned Teachers Break Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608. 04794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation (SD) has emerged as a compute-efficient alternative to reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards: a self-teacher, conditioned on privileged information (PI) about the answer such as a reference solution, supplies dense per-token supervision to a student that never sees it.

By Sarthak Harne, Chinmay Karkar, Yash Pandya, Ahmed Awadallah, Akshay Nambi
arXiv AI
Aug 6

FinRpt: Dataset, Evaluation System and LLM-based Multi-agent Framework for Equity Research Report Generation

arXiv:2511. 07322v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While LLMs have shown great success in financial tasks like stock prediction and question answering, their application in fully automating Equity Research Report generation remains uncharted territory.

By Song Jin, Shuqi Li, Shukun Zhang, Rui Yan
arXiv AI
Aug 6

Easy to Complete, Hard to Choose: Investigating LLM Performance on the ProverbIT Benchmark

arXiv:2608. 04670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed computational linguistics and achieved remarkable performance across numerous natural language processing tasks, yet significant gaps persist in understanding how these systems process culturally embedded linguistic expressions.

By Enrico Mensa, Lorenzo Zane, Calogero Jerik Scozzaro, Matteo Delsanto, Tommaso Milani, Daniele Paolo Radicioni
arXiv AI
Aug 6

The First EgoCross Challenge at EgoVis 2026: Cross-Domain Egocentric Video Question Answering

arXiv:2608. 04589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EgoCross is a cross-domain egocentric video question answering benchmark designed to evaluate whether multimodal large language models can generalize beyond common daily-life scenarios.

By Yuqian Fu, Tianwen Qian, Yanjun Li, Yu Li, Kunyu Peng, Xu Zheng, Yongqin Xian, Alessio Tonioni, Yanwei Fu, Xiaoling Wang, Danda Paudel, Federico Tombari, Luc Van Gool, Leyi Wu, Yifan Zhao, Jinjie Zhang, Yinchuan Li, Yingcong Chen, Zixu Li, Zhiwei Chen, Zhiheng Fu, Wenbo Wang, Yupeng Hu, Weili Guan, Liqiang Nie, Takuya Murakawa, Toru Tamaki, Yi Wen, Zhenglin Du, Zhengyang Li, Lingling Li, Licheng Jiao, Wenping Ma