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Publications (21)

cs.CY2025

Comprehensive Monitoring of Air Pollution Hotspots Using Sparse Sensor Networks

Ankit Bhardwaj, Ananth Balashankar, Shiva Iyer +4

Urban air pollution hotspots pose significant health risks, yet their detection and analysis remain limited by the sparsity of public sensor networks. This paper addresses this cha…

cs.CL2026

Robust LLM Performance Certification via Constrained Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Minghe Shen, Ananth Balashankar, Adam Fisch +2

The ability to rigorously estimate the failure rates of large language models (LLMs) is a prerequisite for their safe deployment. Currently, however, practitioners often face a tra…

cs.LG2024

Inducing Group Fairness in Prompt-Based Language Model Decisions

James Atwood, Nino Scherrer, Preethi Lahoti +3

Classifiers are used throughout industry to enforce policies, ranging from the detection of toxic content to age-appropriate content filtering. While these classifiers serve import…

cs.LG2023

Effective Robustness against Natural Distribution Shifts for Models with Different Training Data

Zhouxing Shi, Nicholas Carlini, Ananth Balashankar +4

"Effective robustness" measures the extra out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness beyond what can be predicted from the in-distribution (ID) performance. Existing effective robustness…

cs.CL2025

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…

cs.CL2024

Reuse Your Rewards: Reward Model Transfer for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Alignment

Zhaofeng Wu, Ananth Balashankar, Yoon Kim +2

Aligning language models (LMs) based on human-annotated preference data is a crucial step in obtaining practical and performant LM-based systems. However, multilingual human prefer…