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most citedVicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers: Unifying Human and Machine Disagreement on What is Offensive

13 citations · 18 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

Pluralis v0.1: Towards a Multicultural, Multimodal, Multilingual Benchmark for AI Risk and Reliability

Alicia Parrish, Rajat Shinde, Sanket Badhe +57

Current AI safety evaluation and benchmarking frameworks predominantly rely on Western-centric culture-agnostic defaults that mask critical regional laws, socio-linguistic nuances,…

cs.AI2026

StaRPO: Stability-Augmented Reinforcement Policy Optimization

Jinghan Zhang, Fengran Mo, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) is effective in enhancing the accuracy of large language models in complex reasoning tasks. Existing RL policy optimization frameworks rely on final-ans…

cs.AI2026

Learning Who Disagrees: Demographic Importance Weighting for Modeling Annotator Distributions with DiADEM

Samay U. Shetty, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Deepak Pandita +1

When humans label subjective content, they disagree, and that disagreement is not noise. It reflects genuine differences in perspective shaped by annotators' social identities and…

cs.NE2025

MultiGA: Leveraging Multi-Source Seeding in Genetic Algorithms

Isabelle Diana May-Xin Ng, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Haitao Zhu +1

In this paper, we introduce, MultiGA, an optimization framework which applies genetic algorithm principles to address complex natural language tasks and reasoning problems by sampl…

cs.CL2025

LPI-RIT at LeWiDi-2025: Improving Distributional Predictions via Metadata and Loss Reweighting with DisCo

Mandira Sawkar, Samay U. Shetty, Deepak Pandita +2

The Learning With Disagreements (LeWiDi) 2025 shared task aims to model annotator disagreement through soft label distribution prediction and perspectivist evaluation, which focuse…

cs.CL2025

ProRefine: Inference-Time Prompt Refinement with Textual Feedback

Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Ankit Parag Shah +3

Agentic workflows, where multiple AI agents collaborate to accomplish complex tasks like reasoning or planning, play a substantial role in many cutting-edge commercial applications…