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Large language models (LLMs) increasingly operate as autonomous agents that reason over external APIs to perform complex tasks. However, their reliability and agreement remain poorly characterized. We present a unified benchmarking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Eyhab Al-Masri

The Inland Revenue Services is overwhelmed with gigabyte of disk capacity containing data about tax payers in the state. The data stored on the database increases in size at an alarming rate. This has resulted in a data rich but information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Felix M. Okoro , Emmanuel O. Oshoiribhor , Adetokunbo M. John-Otumu

Large language models fail at counting repeated tokens despite strong performance on broader reasoning benchmarks. These failures are commonly attributed to limitations in internal count tracking. We show this attribution is wrong. Linear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sohan Venkatesh

We find that models report highest confidence precisely when they are fabricating. Across four model families (OLMo-3, Llama-3.1, Qwen3, Mistral), self-reported confidence inversely correlates with accuracy, with AUC ranging from 0.28 to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tony Mason , Vaastav Anand

Price feeds of securities is a critical component for many financial services, allowing for collateral liquidation, margin trading, derivative pricing and more. With the advent of blockchain technology, value in reporting accurate prices…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-05-23 Orhan Koc

Recent progress in generative AI has made it increasingly easy to create natural-sounding deepfake speech from just a few seconds of audio. While these tools support helpful applications, they also raise serious concerns by making it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Xi Xuan , Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomi Kinnunen

We introduce MARKET-BENCH, a benchmark that evaluates large language models (LLMs) on introductory quantitative trading tasks by asking them to construct executable backtesters from natural language strategy descriptions and market…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Abhay Srivastava , Sam Jung , Spencer Mateega

This paper surveys evaluation techniques to enhance the trustworthiness and understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs). As reliance on LLMs grows, ensuring their reliability, fairness, and transparency is crucial. We explore algorithmic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Nik Bear Brown

We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jérémy Scheurer , Mikita Balesni , Marius Hobbhahn

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to generating fluent but incorrect content, known as confabulation, which poses increasing risks in multi-turn or agentic applications where outputs may be reused as context. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tianyi Zhou , Johanne Medina , Sanjay Chawla

NLP benchmarks rely on standardized datasets for training and evaluating models and are crucial for advancing the field. Traditionally, expert annotations ensure high-quality labels; however, the cost of expert annotation does not scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Omer Nahum , Nitay Calderon , Orgad Keller , Idan Szpektor , Roi Reichart

The advancement of technology facilitates explosive growth of mobile usage in the last decade. Numerous applications have been developed to support its usage. However, gap in technology exists in obtaining correct and trusted values for…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Supriya Chakrabarty , Nabendu Chaki

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive generative capabilities across diverse tasks but remain susceptible to hallucinations, confidently generated yet factually incorrect outputs. We introduce a reference-free,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Keshav Kumar

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly adopted in high-stakes settings, but current benchmarks evaluate mainly whether a task was completed, not how. We introduce Procedure-Aware Evaluation (PAE), a framework that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hongliu Cao , Ilias Driouich , Eoin Thomas

Countless terms of service (ToS) are being signed everyday by users all over the world while interacting with all kinds of apps and websites. More often than not, these online contracts spanning double-digit pages are signed blindly by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Mirgita Frasheri , Arian Bakhtiarnia , Lukas Esterle , Alexandros Iosifidis

State-of-the-art language models are autoregressive and operate on subword units known as tokens. Specifically, one must encode the conditioning string into a list of tokens before passing to the language models for next-token prediction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Buu Phan , Marton Havasi , Matthew Muckley , Karen Ullrich

As Large Language Models (LLMs) transition from research environments to production deployments, evaluating their performance against strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs) has become critical. However, current evaluation methodologies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ashok Chandrasekar , Jason Kramberger

We develop a framework for the optimal pricing and product design of LLMs in which a provider sells menus of token budgets to users who differ in their valuations across a continuum of tasks. Under a homogeneous production technology, we…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-10 Dirk Bergemann , Alessandro Bonatti , Alex Smolin

Large language models (LLMs) are known for their exceptional performance across a range of natural language processing tasks, but their deployment comes at a high computational and financial cost. On the other hand, smaller language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Adarsh MS , Jithin VG , Ditto PS

Large language models (LLMs) can exhibit concept-conditioned semantic divergence: common high-level cues (e.g., ideologies, public figures) elicit unusually uniform, stance-like responses that evade token-trigger audits. This behavior falls…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Nay Myat Min , Long H. Pham , Yige Li , Jun Sun