IFHierBench: Hierarchical Instruction Following for Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.27912 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Yuetian Mao, Chunyang Chen

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-07-30

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 26× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Structural Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation
• ARGS: Alignment as Reward-Guided Search
• Decomposed Prompting: A Modular Approach for Solving Complex Tasks
• Plug and Play Language Models: A Simple Approach to Controlled Text Generation
• Controllable Text Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models
• The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompt Engineering Techniques
• Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models
• OpenAI GPT-5 System Card
• Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

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