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Stephen Bach

Brown University
Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
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Jason Fries

Stanford University
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Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup
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Princeton University
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Ohio State University
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Hugging Face
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Shrinking the Generation-Verification Gap with Weak Verifiers
Verifiers can enhance language model (LM) performance by scoring and ranking a set of generated responses, but high-quality verifiers today are either unscalable (like human judges) or of limited practical use (such as formal proof tools like Lean). While LM-based judges and reward models serve as general-purpose verifiers, they still fall short of the performance levels achieved by oracle verifiers, which are perfectly accurate. To bridge this gap, the Weaver framework is introduced as a method for constructing a strong verifier by combining multiple weaker, imperfect ones. Weaver shows that weighted ensembles of verifiers, which traditionally depend on labeled data,...
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Shrinking the Generation-Verification Gap with Weak Verifiers

Verifiers can enhance language model (LM) performance by scoring and ranking a set of generated responses, but high-quality verifiers today are either unscalable (like human judges) or of limited practical use (such as formal proof tools like Lean). While LM-based judges and reward models serve as general-purpose verifiers, they still fall short of the performance levels achieved by oracle verifiers,…

Jul 30, 2025

Jon Saad-Falcon, et all.

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Data quality and rubrics: how to build trust in your models
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Data quality and rubrics: how to build trust in your models

Rubrics aren’t just for evaluation—they’re a blueprint for better data annotation. In this post, we explore how structured rubrics enable scalable, high-quality labeling and evaluation of GenAI systems. Learn how Snorkel and leading labs use rubrics to align human and automated judgment and accelerate trusted AI development.

Jul 29, 2025
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Research spotlight: is long chain-of-thought structure all that matters when it comes to LLM reasoning distillation?
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Research spotlight: is long chain-of-thought structure all that matters when it comes to LLM reasoning distillation?

We’re taking a look at the research paper, LLMs can easily learn to reason from demonstration (Li et al., 2025), in this week’s community research spotlight. It focuses on how the structure of reasoning traces impacts distillation from models such as DeepSeek R1. What’s the big idea regarding LLM reasoning distillation? The reasoning capabilities of powerful models such as DeepSeek…

Mar 19, 2025
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization Through the Data-Centric Lens
The weak-to-strong generalization phenomenon is the driver for important machine learning applications including highly data-efficient learning and, most recently, performing superalignment. While decades of research have resulted in numerous algorithms that produce strong empirical performance, understanding what aspects of data enable weak-to-strong generalization has been understudied. We propose a simple data-centric mechanism that characterizes weak-to-strong generalization: the overlap density. Intuitively, generalization tracks the number of points that contain overlaps, i.e., both easy patterns (learnable by a weak model) and challenging patterns (only learnable by a stronger model), as with such points, weak predictions can be used to learn challenging patterns...
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization Through the Data-Centric Lens

The weak-to-strong generalization phenomenon is the driver for important machine learning applications including highly data-efficient learning and, most recently, performing superalignment. While decades of research have resulted in numerous algorithms that produce strong empirical performance, understanding what aspects of data enable weak-to-strong generalization has been understudied. We propose a simple data-centric mechanism that characterizes weak-to-strong generalization: the overlap density. Intuitively,…

Mar 01, 2025

Changho Shin, John Cooper, Frederic Sala Department of Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Research spotlight: Is intent analysis the key to unlocking more accurate LLM question answering?
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Research spotlight: Is intent analysis the key to unlocking more accurate LLM question answering?

Learn how ARR improves QA accuracy in LLMs through intent analysis, retrieval, and reasoning. Is intent the key to smarter AI? Explore ARR results!

Feb 27, 2025
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Theoretical Physics Benchmark (TPBench)- a Dataset and Study of AI Reasoning Capabilities in Theoretical Physics
We introduce a benchmark to evaluate the capability of AI to solve problems in theoretical physics, focusing on high-energy theory and cosmology. The first iteration of our benchmark consists of 57 problems of varying difficulty, from undergraduate to research level. These problems are novel in the sense that they do not come from public problem collections. We evaluate our data set on various open and closed language models, including o3-mini, o1, DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o and versions of Llama and Qwen. While we find impressive progress in model performance with the most recent models, our research-level difficulty problems are mostly unsolved. We...
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Theoretical Physics Benchmark (TPBench)- a Dataset and Study of AI Reasoning Capabilities in Theoretical Physics

We introduce a benchmark to evaluate the capability of AI to solve problems in theoretical physics, focusing on high-energy theory and cosmology. The first iteration of our benchmark consists of 57 problems of varying difficulty, from undergraduate to research level. These problems are novel in the sense that they do not come from public problem collections. We evaluate our data…

Feb 01, 2025

Daniel J.H. Chung, Zhiqi Gao, Yurii Kvasiuk, Tianyi Li, Moritz Munchmeyer, Maja Rudolph, Frederic Sala, and Sai Chaitanya Tadepalli

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WONDERBREAD: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Business Process Management Tasks
Existing ML benchmarks lack the depth and diversity of annotations needed for evaluating models on business process management (BPM) tasks. BPM is the practice of documenting, measuring, improving, and automating enterprise workflows. However, research has focused almost exclusively on one task– full end-to-end automation using agents based on multimodal foundation models (FMs) like GPT-4. This focus on automation ignores the reality of how most BPM tools are applied today– simply documenting the relevant workflow takes 60% of the time of the typical process optimization project. To address this gap we present WONDERBREAD, the first benchmark for evaluating multimodal FMs on...
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WONDERBREAD: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Business Process Management Tasks

Existing ML benchmarks lack the depth and diversity of annotations needed for evaluating models on business process management (BPM) tasks. BPM is the practice of documenting, measuring, improving, and automating enterprise workflows. However, research has focused almost exclusively on one task– full end-to-end automation using agents based on multimodal foundation models (FMs) like GPT-4. This focus on automation ignores the…

Oct 01, 2024

Michael Wornow Avanika Narayan Ben Viggiano Ishan S. Khare Tathagat Verma Tibor Thompson Miguel Angel Fuentes Hernandez Sudharsan Sundar Chloe Trujillo Krrish Chawla Rongfei Lu Justin Shen Divya Nagaraj Joshua Martinez Vardhan Agrawal Althea Hudson Nigam H. Shah Christopher Ré Stanford University

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Systems and Methods for Programmatic Labeling of Training Data for Machine Learning Models via Clustering and Language Model Prompting
Embodiments introduce an approach to semi-automatically generate labels for data based on implementation of a clustering or language model prompting technique and can be used to implement a form of programmatic labeling to accelerate the development of classifiers and other forms of models. The disclosed methodology is particularly helpful in generating labels or annotations for unstructured data. In some embodiments, the disclosed approach may be used with data in the form of text, images, or other form of unstructured data.
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Systems and Methods for Programmatic Labeling of Training Data for Machine Learning Models via Clustering and Language Model Prompting

Embodiments introduce an approach to semi-automatically generate labels for data based on implementation of a clustering or language model prompting technique and can be used to implement a form of programmatic labeling to accelerate the development of classifiers and other forms of models. The disclosed methodology is particularly helpful in generating labels or annotations for unstructured data. In some embodiments,…

Sep 23, 2024

RN Smith, et all.

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Scalable Approach to Medical Wearable Post-Market Surveillance
Objective: We sought to develop a weak supervision-based approach to demonstrate feasibility of post-market surveillance of wearable devices that render AF pre-diagnosis. Materials and Methods: Two approaches were evaluated to reduce clinical note labeling overhead for creating a training set for a classifier: one using programmatic codes, and the other using prompts to large language models (LLMs). Probabilistically labeled notes were then used to fine-tune a classifier, which identified patients with AF pre-diagnosis mentions in a note. A retrospective cohort study was conducted, where the baseline characteristics and subsequent care patterns of patients identified by the classifier were compared against...
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Scalable Approach to Medical Wearable Post-Market Surveillance

Objective: We sought to develop a weak supervision-based approach to demonstrate feasibility of post-market surveillance of wearable devices that render AF pre-diagnosis. Materials and Methods: Two approaches were evaluated to reduce clinical note labeling overhead for creating a training set for a classifier: one using programmatic codes, and the other using prompts to large language models (LLMs). Probabilistically labeled notes…

Sep 23, 2024

RM. Yoo, et al.

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