This work reveals a paradox where a simplified, router-free multi-head model with high inter-head redundancy outperforms complex, diversity-driven baselines and proposes Align-LoRA, a unified and efficient framework that shifts the focus from architectural isolation to representation alignment.
The first fully automated framework that synthesizes high-quality, proof-centric benchmarks from natural language mathematical corpora and a new type of hybrid-formatted questions, named ``$m$-out-of-$n$ multiple judge questions'', specifically designed to enable robust, automatic evaluation while being resilient to guessing and superficial pattern matching inherent in traditional formats are proposed.
Ye-Bo Peng, Zixiang Liu, Yao-Ming Li et al.· arXiv.org· 1 citation
It is found that simply training models on CoT data of atomic tasks leads to limited generalization, but minimally modifying CoT formats of constituent atomic tasks to be composable can lead to improvements.
Fangcong Yin, Zeyu Liu, Liu Leqi et al.· arXiv.org· 1 citation
The HeTGB is introduced, a novel benchmark comprising five real-world heterophilic graph datasets from diverse domains, with nodes enriched by extensive textual descriptions that enables systematic evaluation of GNNs, pre-trained language models (PLMs) and co-training methods on the node classification task.
Shujie Li, Yuxia Wu, Chuan Shi et al.· arXiv.org· 5 citations· ⚡2
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Instruct-based large language models (LLMs) have been shown to propagate and even amplify gender bias when prompted with contextually constrained instructions (e.g., writing a text from a description or selecting a gendered pronoun). However, little attention has been paid to biases in responses to contextually unconstrained (generic) instructions conveyed by gendered language, particularly masculine generics (MG). MG, found in many gender-marked languages, denote the use of the masculine gender as a supposedly neutral reference to mixed-gender groups or individuals whose gender is unknown or non-binary. Yet, psycholinguistic studies demonstrate that MG are not neutral and systematically induce gender bias. This study investigates how both local and proprietary LLMs are MG-biased when responding to generic prompts in French, examining LLMs'MG bias rates and use of gender-fair language (GFL). We create a 16k+ human noun database from existing lexical resources and evaluate six LLMs on four instruction-response datasets under two conditions: prompts with and without MG. Overall, we find that $\approx$27.57% of LLMs'responses to MG-filtered generic instructions are MG-biased ($\approx$78.55% with MG-containing prompts). Moreover, we find that LLMs rarely use GFL spontaneously. These findings highlight the persistence of MG bias in LLM outputs and models'limited tendency towards GFL strategies.
The results show that the proposed personalized prompt learning (PPL) approach produces more personalized healthcare guidance and wins 97 out of 100 comparisons in expert evaluation, demonstrating its potential for broader healthcare applications.
Ruize Shi, Hong Huang, Wei Zhou et al.· 6 citations
An automatic multi-token debiasing pipeline called General Phrase Debiaser, which is capable of mitigating phrase-level biases in masked language models, and can significantly reduce gender biases on both career and multiple disciplines, across models with varying parameter sizes.
Bingkang Shi, Xiaodan Zhang, Dehan Kong et al.· IEEE International Conferenc...· 4 citations
BLOOM-WILT is introduced, a full auditing pipeline that elicits natural multi-turn instances of rare behaviours, without training cost or access beyond the target's next-token distribution and raises average behaviour presence from 51% to 100% when eliciting self-harm encouragement from Qwen3.5-4B.
This work proposes agentic data cracking, a method that structures unstructured data adaptively and speculatively as a byproduct of reasoning itself, a first step toward next-generation data infrastructure for agentic reasoning over unstructured data.
A conceptual framework and roadmap for addressing four interrelated translational failure domains through rigorous validation, uncertainty-aware methods, interoperable infrastructures, regulatory alignment, and human oversight across the AI lifecycle is proposed.
B. Ilgen, Yiannos S. Tolias, Denise Kühnert et al.· 0 citations
HSRM is introduced, a lightweight hidden-state reward model that verifies candidate solutions by directly reading the generator's internal representations rather than re-processing its text, providing an efficient alternative to text-only verification by reusing representations already computed during generation.
This work formulate multi-turn reasoning as a hidden-state trajectory of the underlying LLM that is characterized via two complementary signals: temporal curvature that captures the directional consistency of turn-to-turn updates, and variance slope which measures the expansion or contraction of the exploration space.
Jie Liang, Zhengxin Yu, H. Nasiri et al.· 0 citations