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The development of LLMs has greatly enhanced the intelligence and fluency of question answering, while the emergence of retrieval enhancement has enabled models to better utilize external information. However, the presence of noise and…

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In this paper, we show that knowledge distillation can be subverted to manipulate language model benchmark scores, revealing a critical vulnerability in current evaluation practices. We introduce "Data Laundering," a process that enables…

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This study investigates the efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in causal discovery. Using newly available open-source LLMs, OLMo and BLOOM, which provide access to their pre-training corpora, we investigate how LLMs address causal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tao Feng , Lizhen Qu , Niket Tandon , Zhuang Li , Xiaoxi Kang , Gholamreza Haffari

Large Language Models (LLMs) are often used as automated judges to evaluate text, but their effectiveness can be hindered by various unintentional biases. We propose using linear classifying probes, trained by leveraging differences between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sharan Maiya , Yinhong Liu , Ramit Debnath , Anna Korhonen

The rapid advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) tightly associate with the expansion of the training data size. However, the unchecked ultra-large-scale training sets introduce a series of potential risks like data contamination,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wentao Ye , Jiaqi Hu , Liyao Li , Haobo Wang , Gang Chen , Junbo Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) promise to automate data engineering on tabular data, offering enterprises a valuable opportunity to cut the high costs of manual data handling. But the enterprise domain comes with unique challenges that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jan-Micha Bodensohn , Ulf Brackmann , Liane Vogel , Anupam Sanghi , Carsten Binnig

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has heightened concerns about benchmark data contamination (BDC), where models inadvertently memorize evaluation data during the training process, inflating performance metrics, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cheng Xu , Nan Yan , Shuhao Guan , Changhong Jin , Yuke Mei , Yibing Guo , M-Tahar Kechadi

Large language models (LLM) are generating information at a rapid pace, requiring users to increasingly rely and trust the data. Despite remarkable advances of LLM, Information generated by LLM is not completely trustworthy, due to…

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Computational social science (CSS) practitioners often rely on human-labeled data to fine-tune supervised text classifiers. We assess the potential for researchers to augment or replace human-generated training data with surrogate training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Nicholas Pangakis , Samuel Wolken

We present a method to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and traditional tabular data classification techniques, addressing LLMs challenges like data serialization sensitivity and biases. We introduce two strategies utilizing LLMs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Max Zhu , Siniša Stanivuk , Andrija Petrovic , Mladen Nikolic , Pietro Lio

Despite the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, deep learning has yet to achieve much success with tabular data due to heterogeneous feature space and limited sample sizes without viable transfer learning. The new era of generative AI,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shourav B. Rabbani , Ibna Kowsar , Manar D. Samad

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained on tabular data, which, unlike unstructured text, often contains personally identifiable information (PII) in a highly structured and explicit format. As a result, privacy risks arise,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Eyal German , Sagiv Antebi , Daniel Samira , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

Large Language Models (LLMs) are now state-of-the-art at summarization, yet the internal notion of importance that drives their information selections remains hidden. We propose to investigate this by combining behavioral and computational…

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Dataset contamination, where evaluation datasets overlap with pre-training corpora, inflates performance metrics and undermines the reliability of model evaluations. Measuring dataset contamination thus becomes essential to ensure that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hyeong Kyu Choi , Maxim Khanov , Hongxin Wei , Yixuan Li

The training process of large language models (LLMs) often involves varying degrees of test data contamination. Although current LLMs are achieving increasingly better performance on various benchmarks, their performance in practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Qin Zhu , Qingyuan Cheng , Runyu Peng , Xiaonan Li , Tengxiao Liu , Ru Peng , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Tabular data, a prevalent data type across various domains, presents unique challenges due to its heterogeneous nature and complex structural relationships. Achieving high predictive performance and robustness in tabular data analysis holds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yucheng Ruan , Xiang Lan , Jingying Ma , Yizhi Dong , Kai He , Mengling Feng

Mathematical reasoning has long been a key benchmark for evaluating large language models. Although substantial progress has been made on math word problems, the need for reasoning over tabular data in real-world applications has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shi-Yu Tian , Zhi Zhou , Wei Dong , Kun-Yang Yu , Ming Yang , Zi-Jian Cheng , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown significant promise, yet their evaluation raises concerns, particularly regarding data contamination due to the lack of access to proprietary training data. To address this issue,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yanyang Li , Tin Long Wong , Cheung To Hung , Jianqiao Zhao , Duo Zheng , Ka Wai Liu , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in feature engineering for tabular data, but concerns about their reliability persist, especially due to variability in generated outputs. We introduce a multi-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yebin Lim , Susik Yoon

Tables stored in databases and tables which are present in web pages and articles account for a large part of semi-structured data that is available on the internet. It then becomes pertinent to develop a modeling approach with large…

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