cs.CL 2608.28444

Sliding-window beats linear attention

Sliding Window Attention (SWA) with sinks outperforms post-trained linear attention, enabling efficient long-context reasoning without extra training.

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cs.CL 2608.27038

Cascaded Batch Prompting

Cascaded Batch Prompting improves performance by disentangling complex reasoning from symbol grounding.

Sho Hoshino, Peinan Zhang

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cs.CL 2608.24753

The RAT: A Unified Bayesian Model for RAG Evaluation

Unified Bayesian model for RAG evaluation, decomposing retrieval success, abstention, and correctness; reveals behavioral differences across 27 configurations.

Pius von Däniken, Felix Matthias Saaro, Mark Cieliebak et al.

2026-08-25 63