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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

FineWeb-CLaR: Culture, Language, and Region Annotations for Benchmark-Aligned Corpus Auditing

FineWeb-CLaR is introduced, a large-scale annotated dataset derived from FineWeb and FineWeb-2 that places web documents on a shared culture-language-region axis for corpus auditing and benchmark alignment, enabling direct comparison between corpus-side pretraining evidence and benchmark-side evaluation coverage.

Yusser Al Ghussin, Eva Gavaller, Cristina España-Bonet et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

From Concept Alignment to Causal Grounding: An Intervention Test of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

Chain-of-thought (CoT) can sound plausible yet be unfaithful to the model's underlying reasoning. Most prior work probes CoT faithfulness through input--output behavior or input attributions, leaving internal computation largely underexplored. We instead cast faithfulness as internal concept grounding: Does a large lan...

Qianli Wang, Yilong Wang, Dennis Wei et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint May 2026

Judge Circuits Explain Format-Induced Inconsistency in LLM-as-a-Judge

By structurally decoupling abstract judging from output formatting, this work provides a mechanistic account of format-induced inconsistency on the open-weight models the authors study and implies that benchmark comparisons of judge reliability across formats partly measure the fragile formatting stage, and can underst...

Nils Feldhus, Tanja Baeumel, Elena Golimblevskaia et al. · 1 citation

The Latin Substrate: How Language Models Represent and Mediate Script Choice

Many languages are written in multiple scripts, requiring large language models (LLMs) to generate equivalent linguistic content in distinct orthographic forms. While prior work suggests that LLMs route information through shared latent representations, how they internally mediate script variation remains poorly unders...

Daniil Gurgurov, Alan Saji, Katharina Trinley et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Compositional Multilingual and Behavioral Attribute Steering

This study examines the compositionality of steering vectors for language and behavioral control in large language models. Focusing on language, jailbreak, and conciseness, we investigate whether additive, training-free composition of attribute steering vectors can preserve the intended steering effect of each attribut...

Hyunku Kang, Daniil Gurgurov, Tanja Baeumel et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Limitations of Automated Simulatability: LLM Simulators Can Bypass Explanations

This work qualitatively replicate and extend ConSim's ranking of explanation methods across the tested datasets, explanation families, and simulator LLMs, and identifies two limitations: when class names are meaningful, simulators can obtain high simulatability by solving the classification task directly, without relyi...

Antonin Poché, Fanny Jourdan, Nils Feldhus et al. · 0 citations

When Tokenization is Secretly Output Supervision

It is argued that framing tokenization as output supervision provides a principled account of why tokenization consistently affects model performance, and that differences in task performance, training dynamics, and model internals are induced by output tokenization and largely invariant to input tokenization.

Tanja Baeumel, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann · 0 citations

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