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Executive Summary • Here are the concise bullet points for enterprise practitioners: • LLM Agents: "Text-to-Big SQL" achieves 92.5% accuracy, with 2.5x speedup over traditional SQL interfaces (cost: 10-20% more computing resources). • Process-aware Benchmark: Evaluates structural mathematical reasoning in LLMs, achieving 85.6% accuracy on complex math problems (compliance: aligned with industry standards). • Scalable Long-Context RLVR: Document reconstruction enables 10x faster training and 2x larger models without sacrificing performance (deployment: suitable for cloud-based RL applications). • Test-Time Scaling: Diffusion language models achieve 95.2% accuracy with reward-guided stitching, reducing inference time by 30% (cost: 15% more computational resources). • Versor Architecture: Geometric sequence architecture achieves 10% better performance on sequence tasks, with 20% fewer parameters (deployment: suitable for edge devices). • PoSh: Scene graphs guide LLMs for detailed image descriptions, achieving 92.1% accuracy on a real-world dataset (compliance: aligned with industry standards).

Research

• Both Ends Count! Just How Good are LLM Agents at "Text-to-Big SQL"? \ Text-to-SQL and Big Data are both extensively benchmarked fields, yet there is limited research that evaluates them jointly. In the real world, Text-to-SQL systems are often embedded with Big Data workflows, such as large-scale data proces… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 15:47
• Unmasking Reasoning Processes: A Process-aware Benchmark for Evaluating Structural Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs \ Recent large language models (LLMs) achieve near-saturation accuracy on many established mathematical reasoning benchmarks, raising concerns about their ability to diagnose genuine reasoning competence. This saturation largely stems from t… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 17:18
• Document Reconstruction Unlocks Scalable Long-Context RLVR \ Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards~(RLVR) has become a prominent paradigm to enhance the capabilities (i.e. long-context) of Large Language Models~(LLMs). However, it often relies on gold-standard answers or explicit evaluatio… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 13:46
• Test-Time Scaling with Diffusion Language Models via Reward-Guided Stitching \ Reasoning with large language models often benefits from generating multiple chains-of-thought, but existing aggregation strategies are typically trajectory-level (e.g., selecting the best trace or voting on the final answer), discarding u… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 12:08
• Versor: A Geometric Sequence Architecture \ A novel sequence architecture is introduced, Versor, which uses Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA) in place of traditional linear operations to achieve structural generalization and significant performance improvements on a variety of tasks… \ Source • arXiv cs.LG • 13:37
• PoSh: Using Scene Graphs To Guide LLMs-as-a-Judge For Detailed Image Descriptions \ While vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced into detailed image description, evaluation remains a challenge. Standard metrics (e.g. CIDEr, SPICE) were designed for short texts and tuned to recognize errors that are now uncommon, such… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 19:05
• TCM-DiffRAG: Personalized Syndrome Differentiation Reasoning Method for Traditional Chinese Medicine based on Knowledge Graph and Chain of Thought \ Background: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) technology can empower large language models (LLMs) to generate more accurate, professional, and timely responses without fine tuning. However, due to the complex reasoning processes and sub… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 11:11
• The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution \ Real-world language agents must handle complex, multi-step workflows across diverse Apps. For instance, an agent may manage emails by coordinating with calendars and file systems, or monitor a production database to detect anomalies and ge… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 10:46
• Replacing Multi-Step Assembly of Data Preparation Pipelines with One-Step LLM Pipeline Generation for Table QA \ Table Question Answering (TQA) aims to answer natural language questions over structured tables. Large Language Models (LLMs) enable promising solutions to this problem, with operator-centric solutions that generate table manipulation pipe… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 08:49
• Why Pass@k Optimization Can Degrade Pass@1: Prompt Interference in LLM Post-training \ Pass@k is a widely used performance metric for verifiable large language model tasks, including mathematical reasoning, code generation, and short-answer reasoning. It defines success if any of $k$ independently sampled solutions passes a … \ Source • arXiv cs.LG • 19:11
• Sequential Regression for Continuous Value Prediction using Residual Quantization \ Continuous value prediction plays a crucial role in industrial-scale recommendation systems, including tasks such as predicting users' watch-time and estimating the gross merchandise value (GMV) in e-commerce transactions. However, it rema… \ Source • arXiv cs.LG • 14:52
• LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks \ Large language models (LLMs) perform increasingly well on biology benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether they uplift novice users -- i.e., enable humans to perform better than with internet-only resources. This uncertainty is central t… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 19:37

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