Combining the pattern detector with an LLM fallback does not improve joint detection accuracy over the LLM alone¶
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q2 i? On the real corpus the combined pattern+gemini configuration (pair F1 63.50) was significantly lower than gemini-2.0-flash alone (67.81, p=0.005), though it reduces LLM calls by approximately one third. → Laurent Brisson 2026
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Laurent Brisson 2026¶
Laurent Brisson, Maria Teresa Segarra and Gregory Smits. (2026). A didactical-driven teacher assistant for a dimensional modeling course. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22598 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.22598
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Joint orchestration analysis on the real corpus comparing a hybrid configuration (pattern first, LLM fallback on abstention) against gemini-2.0-flash alone. The hybrid reduced LLM calls by roughly one third but degraded pair F1 significantly.
"the combined pattern+gemini con- figuration (pair F1 63.50) is significantly lower than gemini-2.0-flash alone (67.81, p=0.005), indicating that the current pattern introduces errors on queries that the LLM would have handled correctly."
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Combining the pattern detector with an LLM fallback does not improve joint detection accuracy over the LLM alone |
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Combining the pattern detector with an LLM fallback does not improve joint detection accuracy over the LLM alone |
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