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Mirella Lapata

University of Edinburgh

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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond Context Length: Characterising the Difficulty of Long-Context Reasoning

Long-context language models support ever longer context windows, and evaluations typically treat context length as the main indicator of difficulty. However, context length alone cannot explain why models fail on long-context tasks that require reasoning over complex information. Contexts of equal length can pose very...

Shi-Wen Qin, C. Barker, Henry Gouk et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Decentralized LLM Workflows via Sequential Auctions

Across a diverse set of domains, it is demonstrated that imperfect competition successfully sustains necessary agent profit margins while maintaining high task success rates at low costs.

I. Gemp, Shubhendu Trivedi, Adam Fisch et al. · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

Patient-Centered Summarization Framework for AI Clinical Summarization: Mixed Methods Study

Abstract Background Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly demonstrating the potential to reach human-level performance in generating clinical summaries from patient-clinician conversations. LLMs are usually evaluated against clinical summaries that focus mainly on patients’ biology and not on their biography (e...

Maria Lizarazo Jimenez, A. Claros, Kieran Green et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Strategically Diverse Sampling for Self-Training

This work investigates strategic diversity, or substantive variation among approaches to a problem, as an alternative principle for constructing self-training data with two sampling methods: GROOT, a new method which constructs a hierarchical tree of approaches and samples distinct paths, and Verbalized Sampling, adapt...

Alexander Gurung, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Mirella Lapata · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

What, When, and How: Audio Description as Constrained Global Optimization

This hybrid system uses large language models to propose and ground visual elements, estimate their salience to the narrative, and generate compressed realizations, which makes better decisions than prompted LLMs about what to describe and when to describe it.

Igor Sterner, Mirella Lapata, A. Lascarides et al. · 0 citations

Learning Steerable Clarification Policies with Collaborative Self-play

This work uses Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) to train the model to achieve high reward and shows this leads to a steerable policy that changes its behavior predictably conditioned on the provided costs, leading to higher reward and accuracy.

Jonathan Berant, M. Chen, Adam Fisch et al. · 6 citations · ⚡2
Preprint Aug 2026

REFRAMED: Towards Realistic Audio Description Generation for Movies

This work introduces a new formulation of AD generation in which models must jointly decide what to describe and when to do it, and presents REFRAMED, a high-quality dataset of 2,023 videos that span 3,302 scenes from 206 movies, with professional AD transcripts, professional subtitles and aligned screenplays.

Igor Sterner, Mirella Lapata, A. Lascarides et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1

GraphLit: Learning Text-Enriched Dynamic Character Network Representations for Literary Study

Dynamic Heterogeneous Character Networks are introduced, which organize long novels into temporally localized heterogeneous graphs that align characters with their textual contexts, and GraphLit is proposed, a self-supervised learning framework that learns rich literary representations through a masked graph autoencode...

Gaspard Michel, Elena V. Epure, Romain Hennequin et al. · 1 citation
Jul 2026

When is Routing Meaningful? Diversity and Robustness in Language Model Societies

Routing policies for multi-model systems are evaluated almost exclusively on task accuracy and inference cost. We argue that two properties, orthogonal to performance, determine whether routing is meaningful. First, the society of actors must be behaviourally differentiated: if all actors respond identically, routing i...

Fantine Huot, Michael Kaisers, Mirella Lapata · 0 citations

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