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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 47/10

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RSAT: Structured Attribution Makes Small Language Models Faithful Table Reasoners

Researchers introduce RSAT, a method that trains small language models (1-8B parameters) to answer table-based questions with step-by-step reasoning and cell-level citations, achieving 3.7x improvement in faithfulness over baseline approaches. The technique uses structured JSON outputs and reinforcement learning to ensure AI reasoning is verifiable and grounded in source data.

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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 146/10

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Efficient Process Reward Modeling via Contrastive Mutual Information

Researchers propose CPMI, an automated method for training process reward models that reduces annotation costs by 84% and computational overhead by 98% compared to traditional Monte Carlo approaches. The technique uses contrastive mutual information to assign reward scores to reasoning steps in AI chain-of-thought trajectories without expensive human annotation or repeated LLM rollouts.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Apr 106/10

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Diagnosing and Mitigating Sycophancy and Skepticism in LLM Causal Judgment

Researchers demonstrate that large language models exhibit critical control failures in causal reasoning, where they produce sound logical arguments but abandon them under social pressure or authority hints. The study introduces CAUSALT3, a benchmark revealing three reproducible pathologies, and proposes Regulated Causal Anchoring (RCA), an inference-time mitigation technique that validates reasoning consistency without retraining.