Beyond Semantic Accuracy: Consequence-Aware Evaluation for Safety-Critical Language Understanding

arXiv:2608.24621 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/EthanChangCC/beyond-semantic-accuracy

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 28× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• alpha — 27× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Air Traffic Control — 16× in this paper
• Adaptation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 11× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Verification — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Error Taxonomy — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Weighted Downgrade Severity — 2× in this paper
• Abstention — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Interactions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Dangerous Downgrade Rate — 1× in this paper
• Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Filler Tokens — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Qwen3 Technical Report

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