Maksim Savkin
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SHARP: Span-level Hallucination Annotation for Reasoning Paths in Generated Mathematical Solutions
Timofey Garaev | Makar Gorokhovik | Alexey Korotkov | Maksim Savkin | Iurii Vizilter | Andrey Savchenko
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Timofey Garaev | Makar Gorokhovik | Alexey Korotkov | Maksim Savkin | Iurii Vizilter | Andrey Savchenko
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
We introduce SHARP, a compact, span-annotated dataset for hallucination detection in model-generated mathematical solutions. Unlike existing resources that rely on coarse step-level labels, SHARP provides fine-grained, span-level annotations generated through an automated pipeline. Our methodology synthesizes realistic reasoning traces with precise error markup, enabling the production of high-fidelity training data with minimal computational overhead. Despite being 10–30 tim smaller than existing open-source datasets, a 1.5B PRM fine-tuned on SHARP achieves state-of-the-art performance on ProcessBench.
Trust the Context, Not the Weights: Faithful Multi-Hop QA via Synthetic Mid-Training
Maksim Savkin | Mikhail Goncharov | Alexander Gambashidze | Alla Chepurova | Dmitrii Tarasov | Timur Ionov | Nikita Andriianov | Daria Pugacheva | Ivan Oseledets | Vasily Konovalov | Andrey V. Galichin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Maksim Savkin | Mikhail Goncharov | Alexander Gambashidze | Alla Chepurova | Dmitrii Tarasov | Timur Ionov | Nikita Andriianov | Daria Pugacheva | Ivan Oseledets | Vasily Konovalov | Andrey V. Galichin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Recent progress in language models has been defined by scale, yet many practical applications benefit more from robust reasoning than extensive parametric knowledge. We introduce OCC-RAG, a family of models for faithful context-based QA, which prioritizes task-specific reasoning capabilities over knowledge capacity. To train OCC-RAG, we implement a novel pipeline synthesizing over three million multi-context, multi-hop QA examples that target multi-hop reasoning, strict context faithfulness, and calibrated abstention. Mid-trained on this corpus, the models produce structured reasoning traces with source citations grounded in literal quotes from the context. Despite their compact size, OCC-RAG models outperform their same-size general-purpose counterparts on every benchmark and exceed models 2–6× larger on financial reasoning (TAT-QA) and faithfulness (ConFiQA), attaining the best results among all evaluated open-weight models up to 32B parameters. On ConFiQA they rank behind only a frontier proprietary models; on multi-hop reasoning (HotpotQA, MuSiQue) and refusal (MuSiQue-Un) they are on par with 8B-class models and close much of the remaining gap to the largest evaluated systems. We release both our code and family of models.[<https://hf.co/collections/occ-ai/occ-rag>]
DeepPavlov Strikes Back: A Toolkit for Improving LLM Reliability and Trustworthiness
Evgenii Nikolaev | Timur Ionov | Anna Korzanova | Vasily Konovalov | Maksim Savkin
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Evgenii Nikolaev | Timur Ionov | Anna Korzanova | Vasily Konovalov | Maksim Savkin
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
This paper introduces DeepPavlov 1.1, a new version of an open-source library for natural language processing (NLP). DeepPavlov 1.1 supports both traditional NLP tasks (like named entity recognition, sentiment classification) and new tasks needed to enhance LLMs truthfulness and reliability. These tools include: a hallucination detection model, an evergreen question classifier, and a toxicity classifier. The library is easy to use, flexible, and works with many languages. It is designed to help researchers and developers build better, safer AI systems that use language. It is publicly available under the Apache 2.0 license and includes access to an interactive online demo.
2025
SmurfCat at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Bridging External Knowledge and Model Uncertainty for Enhanced Hallucination Detection
Elisei Rykov | Valerii Olisov | Maksim Savkin | Artem Vazhentsev | Kseniia Titova | Alexander Panchenko | Vasily Konovalov | Julia Belikova
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
Elisei Rykov | Valerii Olisov | Maksim Savkin | Artem Vazhentsev | Kseniia Titova | Alexander Panchenko | Vasily Konovalov | Julia Belikova
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
The Multilingual shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes in the SemEval-2025 competition aims to detect hallucination spans in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs in a multilingual context. In this paper, we address the detection of span hallucinations by applying an ensemble of approaches. In particular, we synthesized a PsiloQA dataset and fine-tuned LLM to detect hallucination spans. In addition, we combined this approach with a white-box method based on uncertainty quantification techniques. Using our combined pipeline, we achieved 3rd place in detecting span hallucinations in Arabic, Catalan, Finnish, Italian, and ranked within the top ten for the rest of the languages.
TabaQA at SemEval-2025 Task 8: Column Augmented Generation for Question Answering over Tabular Data
Ekaterina Antropova | Egor Kratkov | Roman Derunets | Margarita Trofimova | Ivan Bondarenko | Alexander Panchenko | Vasily Konovalov | Maksim Savkin
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
Ekaterina Antropova | Egor Kratkov | Roman Derunets | Margarita Trofimova | Ivan Bondarenko | Alexander Panchenko | Vasily Konovalov | Maksim Savkin
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
The DataBench shared task in the SemEval-2025 competition aims to tackle the problem of QA from data in tables. Given the diversity of the structure of tables, there are different approaches to retrieving the answer. Although Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a viable solution, extracting relevant information from tables remains challenging. In addition, the table can be prohibitively large for direct integration into the LLM context. In this paper, we address QA over tabular data first by identifying relevant columns that might contain the answers, then the LLM generates answers by providing the context of the relevant columns, and finally, the LLM refines its answers. This approach secured us 7th place in the DataBench lite category.
SPY: Enhancing Privacy with Synthetic PII Detection Dataset
Maksim Savkin | Timur Ionov | Vasily Konovalov
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
Maksim Savkin | Timur Ionov | Vasily Konovalov
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
We introduce SPY Dataset: a novel synthetic dataset for the task of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection, underscoring the significance of protecting PII in modern data processing. Our research innovates by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate a dataset that emulates real-world PII scenarios. Through evaluation, we validate the dataset’s quality, providing a benchmark for PII detection. Comparative analyses reveal that while PII and Named Entity Recognition (NER) share similarities, dedicated NER models exhibit limitations when applied to PII-specific contexts. This work contributes to the field by making the generation methodology and the generated dataset publicly, thereby enabling further research and development in this field.
When Models Lie, We Learn: Multilingual Span-Level Hallucination Detection with PsiloQA
Elisei Rykov | Kseniia Petrushina | Maksim Savkin | Valerii Olisov | Artem Vazhentsev | Kseniia Titova | Alexander Panchenko | Vasily Konovalov | Julia Belikova
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Elisei Rykov | Kseniia Petrushina | Maksim Savkin | Valerii Olisov | Artem Vazhentsev | Kseniia Titova | Alexander Panchenko | Vasily Konovalov | Julia Belikova
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Hallucination detection remains a fundamental challenge for the safe and reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs), especially in applications requiring factual accuracy. Existing hallucination benchmarks often operate at the sequence level and are limited to English, lacking the fine-grained, multilingual supervision needed for comprehensive evaluation. In this work, we introduce PsiloQA, a large-scale, multilingual dataset annotated with span-level hallucinations across 14 languages. PsiloQA is constructed through an automated three-stage pipeline: generating question–answer pairs from Wikipedia using GPT-4o, eliciting potentially hallucinated answers from diverse LLMs in a no-context setting, and automatically annotating hallucinated spans using GPT-4o by comparing against golden answers and retrieved context. We evaluate a wide range of hallucination detection methods-including uncertainty quantification, LLM-based tagging, and fine-tuned encoder models-and show that encoder-based models achieve the strongest performance across languages. Furthermore, PsiloQA demonstrates effective cross-lingual generalization and supports robust knowledge transfer to other benchmarks, all while being significantly more cost-efficient than human-annotated datasets. Our dataset and results advance the development of scalable, fine-grained hallucination detection in multilingual settings.
2024
DeepPavlov 1.0: Your Gateway to Advanced NLP Models Backed by Transformers and Transfer Learning
Maksim Savkin | Anastasia Voznyuk | Fedor Ignatov | Anna Korzanova | Dmitry Karpov | Alexander Popov | Vasily Konovalov
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Maksim Savkin | Anastasia Voznyuk | Fedor Ignatov | Anna Korzanova | Dmitry Karpov | Alexander Popov | Vasily Konovalov
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
We present DeepPavlov 1.0, an open-source framework for using Natural Language Processing (NLP) models by leveraging transfer learning techniques. DeepPavlov 1.0 is created for modular and configuration-driven development of state-of-the-art NLP models and supports a wide range of NLP model applications. DeepPavlov 1.0 is designed for practitioners with limited knowledge of NLP/ML. DeepPavlov is based on PyTorch and supports HuggingFace transformers. DeepPavlov is publicly released under the Apache 2.0 license and provides access to an online demo.
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