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Simone Balloccu

Simone Balloccu has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on Evaluation & benchmarks, Language models & pretraining, Question answering; often with Mateusz Lango, Ondřej Dušek, Patrícia Schmidtová.

2 papers in our library · 2024–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 8 · 52 works · 209 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 121 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5932

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 Affiliations

🎓Technische Universität DarmstadtDarmstadt · Germany2025–2026 · 4 paperscurrent🎓University of AberdeenAberdeen · United Kingdom2020–2024 · 12 papers🎓Charles UniversityPrague · Czechia2023–2024 · 11 papers🎓University of CagliariCagliari · Italy2018–2022 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 workInformation Systems · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 worksLanguage models & pretraining · 1 workQuestion answering · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20241 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs (2024 · 174 citations)
    The authors study how test data ends up in closed LLMs (data contamination). They separately examine a phenomenon they call indirect data leakage. When researchers evaluate GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 through ChatGPT, benchmark examples may become training material for subsequent versions of the model. Existing contamination…
  2. ARQA: A Benchmark for Grounded Table–Text QA in Enterprise Annual Reports (2026)
    Enterprise annual reports pair audited KPI tables with narrative explaining why figures changed. Existing QA benchmarks usually test only one ability, such as table arithmetic, hybrid retrieval, or text-only citation. ARQA (Annual Report QA) combines numeric recomputation, joint table–text grounding, and causal…

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 121 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 26 citing papers with a page here →.

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