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The LLM-based generation of machine-readable outputs such as JSON has attracted significant attention for integration with external systems. However, existing approaches cannot strictly enforce the maximum number of tokens to be generated,…

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Speculative Decoding (SD) has emerged as a critical technique for accelerating Large Language Model (LLM) inference. Unlike deterministic system optimizations, SD performance is inherently data-dependent, meaning that diverse and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Talor Abramovich , Maor Ashkenazi , Izzy Putterman , Benjamin Chislett , Tiyasa Mitra , Bita Darvish Rouhani , Ran Zilberstein , Yonatan Geifman

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly required to generate structured, machine-readable outputs for downstream systems. While recent benchmarks have focused on evaluating the structural correctness of such outputs, the environmental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Elio Masciari , Vincenzo Moscato , Enea Vincenzo Napolitano , Gian Marco Orlando , Marco Perillo , Diego Russo

Producing output that conforms to a specified JSON schema underlies tool use, structured extraction, and knowledge base construction in modern large language models. Despite this centrality, public datasets for the task remain small,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-11 William Brach , Francesco Zuppichini , Marco Vinciguerra , Lorenzo Padoan

Large language models are increasingly applied to operational decision-making where the underlying structure is constrained optimization. Existing benchmarks evaluate whether LLMs can formulate optimization problems as solver code, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Joseph Tso , Preston Schmittou , Quan Huynh , Jibran Hutchins

We present a comprehensive evaluation of structured decoding for text-to-table generation with large language models (LLMs). While previous work has primarily focused on unconstrained generation of tables, the impact of enforcing structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Julian Oestreich , Lydia Müller

Benchmarks are the de facto standard for tracking progress in large language models (LLMs), yet static test sets can rapidly saturate, become vulnerable to contamination, and are costly to refresh. Scalable evaluation of open-ended items…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yandan Zheng , Haoran Luo , Zhenghong Lin , Wenjin Liu , Luu Anh Tuan

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable success in code generation. However, they still frequently produce uncompilable output because their next-token inference procedure does not model formal aspects of code. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Niels Mündler , Jingxuan He , Hao Wang , Koushik Sen , Dawn Song , Martin Vechev

Recent work shows Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to understand natural language constraints for various text generation tasks in zero- and few-shot settings. While, in the code domain, there is wide usage of constraints in code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mehant Kammakomati , Sameer Pimparkhede , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Prince Kumar , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in automated front-end engineering, e.g., generating UI code from visual designs. However, existing front-end UI code generation benchmarks have the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jingyu Xiao , Ming Wang , Man Ho Lam , Yuxuan Wan , Junliang Liu , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

DevBench is a telemetry-driven benchmark designed to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) on realistic code completion tasks. It includes 1,800 evaluation instances across six programming languages and six task categories derived from real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Adarsh Kumarappan , Pareesa Ameneh Golnari , Wen Wen , Xiaoyu Liu , Gabriel Ryan , Yuting Sun , Shengyu Fu , Elsie Nallipogu

As large language models become increasingly capable of generating code, evaluating their performance remains a complex and evolving challenge. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on functional correctness, overlooking the diversity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Forough Mehralian , Ryan Shar , James R. Rae , Alireza Hashemi

Modern generative pre-trained language models excel at open-ended text generation, yet continue to underperform on structure-related tasks such as NER, relation extraction, and semantic role labeling, especially when compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Minho Lee , Junghyun Min , Yerang Kim , Woochul Lee , Yeonsoo Lee

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate structured outputs, such as JSON, is crucial for their use in Compound AI Systems. However, evaluating and improving this capability remains challenging. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Connor Shorten , Charles Pierse , Thomas Benjamin Smith , Erika Cardenas , Akanksha Sharma , John Trengrove , Bob van Luijt

Instruction tuning is vital for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs), but existing text-to-text methods, referred to as TextTuning, struggle with issues such as generalization, robustness, and controllability due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chang Gao , Wenxuan Zhang , Guizhen Chen , Wai Lam

Structured outputs are essential for large language models (LLMs) in critical applications like agents and information extraction. Despite their capabilities, LLMs often generate outputs that deviate from predefined schemas, significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Darren Yow-Bang Wang , Zhengyuan Shen , Soumya Smruti Mishra , Zhichao Xu , Yifei Teng , Haibo Ding

Deobfuscating JavaScript (JS) code poses a significant challenge in web security, particularly as obfuscation techniques are frequently used to conceal malicious activities within scripts. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Guoqiang Chen , Xin Jin , Zhiqiang Lin

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in generating structured diagrams from natural language descriptions, particularly Mermaid sequence diagrams for software engineering. However, the lack of existing benchmarks to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Basel Shbita , Farhan Ahmed , Chad DeLuca

LLM development has aroused great interest in Sequential Recommendation (SR) applications. However, comprehensive evaluation of SR models remains lacking due to the limitations of the existing benchmarks: 1) an overemphasis on accuracy,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jianhong Li , Zeheng Qian , Wangze Ni , Haoyang Li , Hongwei Yao , Yang Bai , Kui Ren

Production LLM systems increasingly require machine-readable outputs: JSON objects, typed traces, regex-constrained fields, and tool-call schemas. This paper targets on-device and low-cost small language model (SLM) deployments, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jaideep Ray