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Ten years after we founded the Automated Reasoning Group, mathematical logic has moved from academic research into production services that secure millions of customer workloads — demonstrating that systems can be provably correct, not just probably correct.
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The Antibody Developability Benchmark is powered by one of the most diverse antibody datasets in public literature, enabling transparent performance evaluation for AI-guided antibody design.
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NeurIPS 20262026Both full fine-tuning (Full FT) and parameter-efficient methods like LoRA add weight updates without regard to the spectral structure that pretraining has established. This allows noisy gradients from a small fine-tuning distribution to freely perturb the robust features learned through pretraining. We first identify spectral preconditioning as the key missing ingredient: reparameterizing each weight W
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StalePO: Anchored token-level preference optimization using legacy post-edits in machine translationWMT 20262026Machine translation systems are periodically upgraded to stronger models, but the available preference signal is human post-edits of an older system's outputs, which the newer model may already surpass. Moreover, collecting fresh post-edits for every new model is prohibitively expensive. We call this the Stale Preference problem. Standard DPO can fail in this setting: it may increase the likelihood of inferior
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2026Machine Translation (MT) and automatic MT evaluation have improved dramatically in recent years, enabling numerous novel applications. Automatic evaluation techniques have evolved from producing scalar quality scores to precisely locating translation errors and assigning them error categories and severity levels. However, it remains unclear how to reliably measure the evaluation capabilities of auto-evaluators
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2026Data annotation remains a central bottleneck in natural language processing, requiring human effort to obtain high-quality labels at scale. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a fast and cost-effective alternative, their reliability is highly instance-dependent: they perform well on simple inputs but often fail on examples requiring nuanced reasoning or contextual understanding. In this work, we address
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NeurIPS 20262026Uncertainty estimation is essential not only for the trustworthy deployment of large language models (LLMs) but also as a foundation for self-refinement in LLM generation. However, existing approaches operate at suboptimal granularities: token-level scores lack semantic coherence, while sequence-level scores fail to localize errors. We formalize Span-Level Uncertainty Estimation (SLUE), a new task that
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