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Real-world clinical text-to-SQL requires reasoning over heterogeneous EHR tables, temporal windows, and patient-similarity cohorts to produce executable queries. We introduce ClinSQL, a benchmark of 633 expert-annotated tasks on MIMIC-IV v3.1 that demands multi-table joins, clinically meaningful filters, and executable SQL. Solving ClinSQL entails navigating schema metadata and clinical coding systems, handling long contexts, and composing multi-step queries beyond traditional text-to-SQL. We evaluate 20 proprietary and open-source models under Chain-of-Thought self-refinement and use rubric-based SQL analysis with execution checks that prioritize critical clinical requirements. Despite recent advances, performance remains far from clinical reliability: on the test set, GPT-5-mini attains 74.7% execution score, DeepSeek-R1 leads open-source at 69.2% and Gemini-2.5-Pro drops from 85.5% on Easy to 67.2% on Hard. Progress on ClinSQL marks tangible advances toward clinically reliable text-to-SQL for real-world EHR analytics.

EACL 2026

Patient-Similarity Cohort Reasoning in Clinical Text-to-SQL

patient similarity

cohort reasoning

clinical text-to-sql

llm evaluation

electronic health records

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Adapting large language models to full document translation remains challenging due to the difficulty of capturing long-range dependencies and preserving discourse coherence throughout extended texts. While recent agentic machine translation systems mitigate context window constraints through multi-agent orchestration and persistent memory, they require substantial computational resources and are sensitive to memory retrieval strategies. We introduce TransGraph, a discourse-guided framework that explicitly models inter-chunk relationships through structured discourse graphs and selectively conditions each translation segment on relevant graph neighbourhoods rather than relying on sequential or exhaustive context. Across three document-level MT benchmarks spanning six languages and diverse domains, TransGraph consistently surpasses strong baselines in translation quality and terminology consistency while incurring significantly lower token overhead.

Discourse Graph Guided Document Translation with Large Language Models

Mitigating toxic content is critical for maintaining a healthy social platform, yet existing detoxification systems face significant limitations: overcorrection from uniformly processing all toxic comments, and parallel data scarcity in paraphrasing model training. To tackle these challenges, we propose Detoxifiability-Aware Detoxification (DID), a novel paradigm that adaptively conducts filtering or paraphrasing for each toxic comment based on its detoxifiability, namely whether it can be paraphrased into a benign comment in essence. Specifically, DID integrates three core modules: (1) an unsupervised detoxifiability discriminator, (2) a semantic purification module that extracts harmful intents and then performs targeted paraphrasing only on detoxifiable comments and (3) a feedback-adaptive refinement loop that processes remaining harmful contents only when they are detoxifiable. Experimental results demonstrate that DID significantly outperforms existing approaches on academic data and an industrial platform, establishing a novel and practical modeling paradigm for comment detoxification.

To Paraphrase or Not: Efficient Comment Detoxification with Unsupervised Detoxifiability Discrimination

Despite advances in large language models (LLMs), Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems often fall short in delivering personalized, context-rich responses, especially in low-resource, code-mixed, and multimodal settings like Hinglish (Hindi-English). To bridge this gap, we introduce HiVisTask, the first Hinglish multimodal, multidomain, persona-based TOD dataset that captures user-agent interactions across text and visual modalities. We also propose G 3 TOD, a generalizable framework that enhances personalization using three structured knowledge graphs: entity context, user persona, and commonsense reasoning, all extracted from conversation history. Extensive experiments with LLMs (e.g., LLaMA3.2, Phi3, GPT4, Mistral7b, Qwen3, Gemma3) show that G 3 TOD consistently outperforms both standard and ablated baselines. We observe substantial gains across evaluation metrics (both quantitative: BLEU and qualitative: Human Eval) over existing models. The observed improvements strongly underscore the value of structured and selective contextualization in generating personalized and engaging multimodal responses.

I know you are different! Towards Persona Driven Knowledge-infused Dialogue Assistant

Large audio-language models (LALMs) benefit from Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting for audio question answering (AQA), but acquiring audio CoT examples is particularly challenging as it requires sequential listening and careful integration of acoustic and linguistic information. Surprisingly, our experiments reveal that standard few-shot prompting yields inconsistent results compared to zero-shot CoT, with several models showing degraded accuracy. Moreover, few-shot prompting incurs substantially higher inference costs by processing multiple audio demonstrations per inference. We propose Audio-Induct, which induces reusable textual task instructions from few audio examples once per task, requiring no additional demonstrations at inference. Evaluated on 9 LALMs across two benchmarks, Audio-Induct outperforms state-of-the-art prompting methods while maintaining low inference costs. Inducted Task Instructions transfer effectively across models, enabling scalable deployment.

Task-Level Instructions Induction for Audio Question Answering from Few Examples

Ensuring Large Language Models (LLMs) are aligned with human valuesвЂ”being helpful, harmless, and honest (HHH)вЂ”is crucial for safe deployment. Existing methods use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) to align LLMs. However, these methods face challenges in multi-objective settings: SFT leads to interference between conflicting goals, while MoEs suffer from miscalibrated routing. We term this failure mode Axis Collapse, marked by (1) disjoint feature spaces causing catastrophic forgetting, and (2) unreliable inference from misrouted experts. To address this, we propose AlignX, a two-stage alignment framework. Stage 1 uses prompt-injected fine-tuning to extract axis-specific task features, mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Stage 2 deploys a MoCaE module that calibrates expert routing using fractal and natural geometry, improving inference reliability. AlignX achieves significant gains on Alpaca (Helpfulness), BeaverTails (Harmlessness), and TruthfulQA (Honesty), with +171.5% win rate, +110.1% in truthfulness-informativeness, and 4.3% fewer safety violations. It also reduces latency and memory usage by over 35% compared to prior MoEs. Results across four LLMs validate its generalizability. Code and data are available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/AlignX-40BE/README.md

When the Model Said "No Comment", We Knew Helpfulness Was Dead, Honesty Was Alive, and Safety Was Terrified

Autoregressive (AR) models excel at generating temporally coherent audio by producing tokens sequentially, yet they often falter in faithfully following complex textual promptsвЂ”especially those describing complex sound events. We uncover a surprising capability in AR audio generators: their early prefix tokens implicitly encode global semantic attributes of the final output, such as event count and sound-object category, revealing a form of implicit planning. Building on this insight, we propose Plan-Critic, a lightweight auxiliary model trained with a Generalized Advantage Estimation (GAE)-inspired objective to predict final instruction-following quality from partial generations. At inference time, Plan-Critic enables guided exploration: it evaluates candidate prefixes early, prunes low-fidelity trajectories, and reallocates computation to high-potential planning seeds. Our Plan-Critic-guided sampling achieves up to a 10 points improvement in CLAP score over the AR baselineвЂ”establishing a new state of the art in AR text-to-audio generationвЂ”while maintaining computational parity with standard best-of-N decoding. This work bridges the gap between causal generation and global semantic alignment, demonstrating that even strictly autoregressive models can plan ahead.

Guided by the Plan: Enhancing Faithful Autoregressive Text-to-Audio Generation with Guided Decoding

Does the prior knowledge of the vision encoder constrain the capability boundary of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs)? While most existing research treats MLLMs as unified systems optimized through end-to-end training, the impact of vision encoder's prior knowledge is seldom investigated. In this work, we introduce a novel metric Rank e to quantify the effect of prior knowledge of the vision encoder on MLLM performance. Our analysis reveals a positive correlation between prior knowledge and MLLM performance. Moreover, we find that domain-specific fine-tuning using solely end-to-end visual question answering (VQA) data is insufficient, particularly for entities with low inherent visual prior knowledge. To address this issue, we propose VisPRE (Vision Prior Remediation), a two-stage training framework that explicitly incorporates prior knowledge at the vision encoder level. Experimental results demonstrate that augmenting vision encoder's prior knowledge substantially boosts the visual understanding capabilities of MLLMs, offering a novel and effective strategy for improving performance, especially in scenarios involving uncommon visual entities.

Expanding the Boundaries of Vision Prior Knowledge in Multi-modal Large Language Models

Fine-grained image-caption alignment is crucial for vision-language models (VLMs), especially in socially critical contexts such as identifying real-world risk scenarios or distinguishing cultural proxies, where correct interpretation hinges on subtle visual or linguistic clues and where minor misinterpretations can lead to significant real-world consequences. We present MiSCHiEF, a set of two benchmarking datasets (MiC and MiS) based on a contrastive pair design in the domains of safety and culture, and evaluate four VLMs on tasks requiring fine-grained differentiation of paired images and captions. In both datasets, each sample contains two minimally differing captions and corresponding minimally differing images. In MiS, the image-caption pairs depict a safe and an unsafe scenario, while in MiC, they depict cultural proxies in two distinct cultural contexts. We find that models generally perform better at confirming the correct image-caption pair than rejecting incorrect ones. Additionally, models achieve higher accuracy when selecting the correct caption from two highly similar captions for a given image, compared to the converse task. The results, overall, highlight persistent modality misalignment challenges in current VLMs, underscoring the difficulty of precise cross-modal grounding required for applications with subtle semantic and visual distinctions.

MiSCHiEF: A Benchmark in Minimal-Pairs of Safety and Culture for Holistic Evaluation of Fine-Grained Image-Caption Alignment

Hateful speech detection is a key component of content moderation, yet current evaluation frameworks rarely assess why a text is deemed hateful. We introduce \textsf{HateXScore}, a four-component metric suite designed to evaluate the reasoning quality of model explanations. It assesses (i) conclusion explicitness, (ii) faithfulness and causal grounding of quoted spans, (iii) protected group identification (policy-configurable), and (iv) logical consistency among these elements. Evaluated on six diverse hate speech datasets, \textsf{HateXScore} reveals interpretability failures and annotation inconsistencies that are invisible to standard metrics like Accuracy or F1. Moreover, human evaluation shows strong agreement with \textsf{HateXScore}, validating it as a practical tool for trustworthy and transparent moderation. \textcolor{red}{Disclaimer: This paper contains sensitive content that may be disturbing to some readers.}

HateXScore: A Metric Suite for Evaluating Reasoning Quality in Hate Speech Explanations

Human cognition, driven by complex neurochemical processes, oscillates between imagination and reality and learns to self-correct whenever such subtle drifts lead to hallucinations or unsafe associations. In recent years, LLMs have demonstrated remarkable performance in a wide range of tasks. However, they still lack human cognition to balance factuality and safety. Bearing the resemblance, we argue that both factual and safety failures in LLMs arise from a "concept misalignment'' in their internal representations rather than addressing those as entirely separate alignment issues. We hypothesize that an external network, trained to understand the fluctuations, can selectively intervene in the model to regulate falsehood into truthfulness and unsafe output into safe output without fine-tuning the model parameters themselves. Reflecting the hypothesis, we propose ARREST (Adversarial Resilient Regulation Enhancing Safety and Truth), a unified framework that identifies and corrects drifted features, engaging both soft and hard refusals in addition to factual corrections. Our empirical results show that ARREST not only regulates misalignment but is also more versatile compared to the RLHF-aligned modelsin generating soft refusals due to adversarial training. We make our codebase available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ARREST-LLM .

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