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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

STRUCTURALCOST: A controlled reading time dataset for modeling human sentence processing difficulty

We introduce STRUCTURALCOST, a self-paced reading dataset of 475 participants and 40,800 observations isolating the processing cost of long-distance subject-verb dependency resolution. We replicate a low-powered psycholinguistic finding at NLP scale, namely that human reading times at the main verb increase with depend...

Nina Nusbaumer, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Corentin Bel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Penalty-Framed No-Valid-Option MCQA: Analyzing LLM Abstention under Invalid Choices

Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is commonly used to evaluate large language models under the assumption that one of the provided options is correct, typically using answer-selection accuracy. However, in real deployments, users or retrieval systems may provide invalid option sets in which none of the listed c...

Jinhyeok Kim, Hye-Young Jung · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SAGE: Semantic Anchor-Guided Evolution for Grounded Medical QA Data Synthesis

Developing reliable models for clinical tasks, such as Medical Question Answering (QA), is severely constrained by the limited availability of high-quality, expert-annotated training data. This challenge is exacerbated by stringent privacy requirements and the impracticality of utilizing large open-source corpora or pr...

Chuan Li, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DirectSpeech2LLM: A Simple End-to-End Framework to Mitigate Prompt Overfitting in Speech-LLMs

Speech-LLMs often exhibit prompt overfitting, where models solely trained on automatic speech recognition (ASR) instruction fail to generalize to new instructions such as speech translation and continue to behave primarily as ASR system. We propose DirectSpeech2LLM, a simple end-to-end framework that preserves the inst...

Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram, Roger Zimmermann et al. · 0 citations
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Are Language Models Script-Aware?

Language models frequently generate outputs in unintended languages or scripts, a phenomenon known as off-target generation. While existing research has focused on language selection, the dimension of script knowledge remains understudied: before any linguistic understanding can occur, users must recognize the graphic...

David Kletz, Sandra Mitrovic, Ljiljana Dolamic et al. · 0 citations
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The Labeling Problem in Hallucination Detection Benchmarks: An Empirical Evaluation

In recent years, several methods for detecting when large language models (LLMs) hallucinate have been developed. These methods are often benchmarked with open-domain question answering (QA) datasets containing questions and corresponding short reference answers. First, an LLM is used to generate answers to questions w...

Jorma Valjakka, Juhani Kivim\"aki, Juha Myll\"ari et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Structured but Silent: Probing Capability Requirements in LLM Hidden States

Reliable tool use requires more than triggering a mechanism or matching a query to an API description. Before selecting a specific tool, an agent must first infer the capability requirements implied by the user query. In this paper, we investigate whether these query-side capability requirements are linearly decodable...

Kyo-Nam Choo, Mi-Ra Song, Yun-Ju Kang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Hybrid Latent Attention for Looped Language Models

Looped language models apply the same stack of layers T times to each token, which deepens the model without adding parameters but multiplies its key-value (KV) cache by T. The larger cache limits how many sequences a GPU can decode at once and slows each decoding step, which reads the whole cache. We propose Hybrid La...

Yuhan Chen, Siyuan Zhang, Nan Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Leveraging a four-quadrant approach for evaluating Redpine Science

Redpine Science gives models and agents a single access point to a wide range of peer-reviewed literature, queried directly through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and an API. This report evaluates Redpine Science on two levels: the relevance of the retrieved chunks, and a model's answer when it has access to Redpine...

Filip Dorm, Leonora Vesterbacka · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Pseudowords as probes: Large Language Models show little of the sublexical sensitivity that governs human pseudoword processing

Systematicity, the probabilistic mapping of form to meaning, permeates language at all levels, and sublexical cues have been shown to govern human pseudoword processing. Yet whether LLMs exhibit comparable sensitivity to these cues remains unclear. We tested five LLMs on two Italian two-alternative forced-choice pseudo...

Jing Chen, Giulia Loca, Simona Amenta et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ARIA: Audio-Driven Melody-Tone Relation Modeling for Cantonese Lyric Authoring

Cantonese lyric writing requires close alignment between lexical tones and melodic pitch. Existing melody-guided lyric generation methods typically rely on symbolic melody to generate lyrics. However, in real songwriting scenarios, melodies are often expressed as raw singing audio or hummed recordings, where pitch is i...

Shengyu Li, Jinting Wang, Li Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Visual Abstention in Unified Multimodal Models

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) integrate understanding and generation, yet their generative behavior is rarely governed by what they understand about the task. We formalize visual abstention: when a requested visual transformation is impossible under the task's rules, the model should recognize that no valid solution...

Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang, Tiannuo Yang et al. · 0 citations

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Estimating suicide risk from text

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