Counting Clues: A Lightweight Probabilistic Baseline Can Match an LLM

arXiv:2512.12868 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-12-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-12-14

Updated: 2026-10-27

Terminology

• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frequency-Based Probabilistic Ranker — 1× in this paper
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes

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