Gili Lior
Author directory2026
WildIFEval: Instruction Following in the Wild
Gili Lior | Asaf Yehudai | Ariel Gera | Liat Ein-Dor
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)
Gili Lior | Asaf Yehudai | Ariel Gera | Liat Ein-Dor
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)
Recent LLMs have shown remarkable success in following user instructions, yet handling instructions with multiple constraints remains a significant challenge. In this work, we introduce WildIFEval - a large-scale dataset of 7K real user instructions for single-turn constrained text generation, exhibiting diverse, multi-constraint conditions. Unlike prior datasets, our collection spans a broad lexical and topical spectrum of constraints, extracted from natural user instructions. We categorize these constraints into eight high-level classes to capture their distribution and co-occurrence dynamics in real-world scenarios. Leveraging , we conduct extensive experiments to benchmark the instruction-following capabilities of leading LLMs. WildIFEval clearly differentiates between small and large models, and demonstrates that all models have room for improvement on such tasks. Our analysis reveals that as constraint count grows, models’ overall success drops sharply while per-constraint success remains stable, indicating a capacity bottleneck in juggling multiple constraints, and that models struggle more with rigid form-based constraints than with softer content-based ones. We release our dataset to promote further research on instruction-following under complex, realistic conditions.
Comparing the Framing Effect in Humans and LLMs on Naturally Occurring Texts
Gili Lior | Liron Naccache | Gabriel Stanovsky
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Gili Lior | Liron Naccache | Gabriel Stanovsky
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Humans are influenced by how information is presented, a phenomenon known as the framing effect. Prior work suggests that LLMs may also be susceptible to framing, but it has relied on synthetic data and did not compare to human behavior. To address this gap, we introduce WildFrame - a dataset for evaluating LLM responses to positive and negative framing in naturally-occurring sentences, alongside human responses on the same data. WildFrame consists of 1,000 real-world texts selected to convey a clear sentiment; we then reframe each text in either a positive or negative light and collect human sentiment annotations. Evaluating eleven LLMs on WildFrame, we find that all models respond to reframing in a human-like manner (r≥ 0.52), and that both humans and models are influenced more by positive than negative reframing. Notably, GPT models are the least correlated with human behavior among all tested models. These findings raise a discussion around the goals of state-of-the-art LLM development and whether models should align closely with human behavior, to preserve cognitive phenomena such as the framing effect, or instead mitigate such biases in favor of fairness and consistency.
2025
ReliableEval: A Recipe for Stochastic LLM Evaluation via Method of Moments
Gili Lior | Eliya Habba | Shahar Levy | Avi Caciularu | Gabriel Stanovsky
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Gili Lior | Eliya Habba | Shahar Levy | Avi Caciularu | Gabriel Stanovsky
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
LLMs are highly sensitive to prompt phrasing, yet standard benchmarks typically report performance using a single prompt, raising concerns about the reliability of such evaluations. In this work, we argue for a stochastic method of moments evaluation over the space of meaning-preserving prompt perturbations. We introduce a formal definition of reliable evaluation that accounts for prompt sensitivity, and suggest ReliableEval - a method for estimating the number of prompt resamplings needed to obtain meaningful results. Using our framework, we stochastically evaluate five frontier LLMs and find that even top-performing models like GPT-4o and Claude-3.7-Sonnet exhibit substantial prompt sensitivity. Our approach is model-, task-, and metric-agnostic, offering a recipe for meaningful and robust LLM evaluation.
PromptSuite: A Task-Agnostic Framework for Multi-Prompt Generation
Eliya Habba | Noam Dahan | Gili Lior | Gabriel Stanovsky
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Eliya Habba | Noam Dahan | Gili Lior | Gabriel Stanovsky
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Evaluating LLMs with a single prompt has proven unreliable, with small changes leading to significant performance differences. However, generating the prompt variations needed for a more robust multi-prompt evaluation is challenging, limiting its adoption in practice. To address this, we introduce PromptSuite, a framework that enables the automatic generation of various prompts. PromptSuite is flexible – working out of the box on a wide range of tasks and benchmarks. It follows a modular prompt design, allowing controlled perturbations to each component, and is extensible, supporting the addition of new components and perturbation types. Through a series of case studies, we show that PromptSuite provides meaningful variations to support strong evaluation practices. All resources, including the Python API, source code, user-friendly web interface, and demonstration video, are available at: https://eliyahabba.github.io/PromptSuite/.
2024
Leveraging Collection-Wide Similarities for Unsupervised Document Structure Extraction
Gili Lior | Yoav Goldberg | Gabriel Stanovsky
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Gili Lior | Yoav Goldberg | Gabriel Stanovsky
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Document collections of various domains, e.g., legal, medical, or financial, often share some underlying collection-wide structure, which captures information that can aid both human users and structure-aware models.We propose to identify the typical structure of document within a collection, which requires to capture recurring topics across the collection, while abstracting over arbitrary header paraphrases, and ground each topic to respective document locations. These requirements pose several challenges: headers that mark recurring topics frequently differ in phrasing, certain section headers are unique to individual documents and do not reflect the typical structure, and the order of topics can vary between documents. Subsequently, we develop an unsupervised graph-based method which leverages both inter- and intra-document similarities, to extract the underlying collection-wide structure. Our evaluations on three diverse domains in both English and Hebrew indicate that our method extracts meaningful collection-wide structure, and we hope that future work will leverage our method for multi-document applications and structure-aware models.