Papers with evaluation benchmarks
NewsRecLib: A PyTorch-Lightning Library for Neural News Recommendation (2023.emnlp-demo)
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| Challenge: | Existing open source repositories expose a multitude of programming languages, libraries, and implementation differences, hindering reproducibility and extensibility. |
| Approach: | NewsRecLib is an open-source library for training and evaluating neural news recommendation models. |
| Outcome: | The open-source library provides implementations of several prominent neural models, training methods, standard evaluation benchmarks, and evaluation metrics for news recommendation. |
Metadata Shaping: A Simple Approach for Knowledge-Enhanced Language Models (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to capture entity knowledge with factual knowledge are limited . despite its simplicity, metadata shaping is quite effective . |
| Approach: | They propose a method which inserts substrings corresponding to readily available entity metadata into examples at train and inference time based on mutual information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exceeds the baseline model by 4.3 F1 points and achieves state-of-the-art results. |
Can We Trust AI Doctors? A Survey of Medical Hallucination in Large Language and Large Vision-Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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Zhihong Zhu, Yunyan Zhang, Xianwei Zhuang, Fan Zhang, Zhongwei Wan, Yuyan Chen, QingqingLong QingqingLong, Yefeng Zheng, Xian Wu
| Challenge: | Hallucination is a critical challenge for large language models and large vision-language models (LVLMs) however, dedicated research on medical hallucinations remains unexplored. |
| Approach: | They provide a unified perspective on medical hallucination for both LLMs and LVLMs, and delve into its causes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models have demonstrated impressive performance on a variety of medical benchmarks. |
MT-Video-Bench: A Holistic Video Understanding Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal LLMs in Multi-Turn Dialogues (2026.findings-acl)
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Yaning Pan, Qianqian Xie, Guohui Zhang, Zekun Moore Wang, Yongqian Wen, Yuanxing Zhang, Haoxuan Hu, Zhiyu Pan, Yibing Huang, Zhidong Gan, Yonghong Lin, An Ping, Shihao Li, Yanghai Wang, Tianhao Peng, Jiaheng Liu
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation benchmarks for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) focus on single-turn question answering, overlooking the complexity of multi-turn dialogues in real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a video understanding benchmark for MLLMs in multi-turn dialogues that assesses six core competencies that focus on perceptivity and interactivity. |
| Outcome: | The MT-Video-Bench evaluates 1,000 multi-turn dialogues from diverse domains and reveals significant performance discrepancies and limitations in handling multi-turned video dialogues. |
AraBench: Benchmarking Dialectal Arabic-English Machine Translation (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing efforts to translate Arabic dialects to English are limited due to the lack of evaluation benchmarks. |
| Approach: | They propose an evaluation suite for Arabic to English machine translation using existing Arabic resources. |
| Outcome: | The evaluation suite for Arabic to English machine translation is based on existing evaluation benchmarks. |
Investigating Data Contamination in Modern Benchmarks for Large Language Models (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluation benchmarks for large language models are inflated and inconsistent with actual performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-based system to explore potential overlaps between benchmarks and pretraining corpora and a protocol to investigate testset slot guessing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exploits overlaps between evaluation benchmarks and pretraining corpora and masks a wrong answer in a multiple choice question and prompts the model to fill in the gap. |
EvolvR: Self-Evolving Pairwise Reasoning for Story Evaluation to Enhance Generation (2026.acl-long)
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Xinda Wang, Zhengxu Hou, Yangshijie Zhang, null Yanbingren, Jialin Liu, ChenZhuo Zhao, Zhibo Yang, Bin-Bin Yang, Feng Xiao
| Challenge: | Existing methods for story evaluation lack reasoning capabilities for open-source models . evolvR framework provides high-fidelity evaluators for story generation tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that self-synthesizes chain-of-thought data via a multi-persona strategy . they propose evolvR to provide a reward model for story generation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on three evaluation benchmarks . it also enhances the quality of generated stories, validating the superiority of the framework . |
MTAVG-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Multi-Talker Dialogue-Centric Audio-Video Generation (2026.acl-long)
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Yanghao Zhou, Haitian Li, Rexar Lin, Heyan Huang, Jinxing Zhou, Changsen Yuan, Tian Lan, Ziqin Zhou, Yudong Li, Jiajun Xu, Jingyun Liao, YiMing Cheng, Xuefeng Chen, Xian-Ling Mao, Yousheng Feng
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation benchmarks for text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation are largely designed for human-recorded videos or single-speaker settings. |
| Approach: | They propose a failure-driven diagnostic benchmark for multi-talker dialogue-centric audio-video generation. |
| Outcome: | The benchmark evaluates multi-speaker dialogue generation at four levels: audio-visual signal fidelity, temporal attribute consistency, social interaction, and cinematic expression. |
Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: Assessment and Enhancement (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Theory of Mind (ToM) is a cornerstone of human social intelligence . Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into daily life . |
| Approach: | They analyze evaluation benchmarks and enhancement strategies to evaluate LLMs' ToM capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed and widely used story-based benchmarks and enhancement strategies are used to evaluate LLMs' ToM capabilities. |