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cs.CL2026

What Models Express, Suppress, and Resist: Auditing Open-Weight LLMs with Persona Vectors

Winston Zeng, Ali Emami, Jinho D. Choi

The paper introduces a large inventory of persona vectors to systematically probe open-weight language models, categorizing traits as naturally expressed, steerable, or resistant,…

cs.AI2026

Agents' Last Exam

Yiyou Sun, Xinyang Han, Weichen Zhang +306

Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on a wide range of benchmarks, yet these gains have not translated into economically meaningful deployment across many professional d…

cs.AI2026

If Only My CGM Could Speak: A Privacy-Preserving Agent for Question Answering over Continuous Glucose Data

Yanjun Cui, Ali Emami, Temiloluwa Prioleau +1

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) used in diabetes care collect rich personal health data that could improve day-to-day self-management. However, current patient platforms only of…

cs.CL2026

DART: Mitigating Harm Drift in Difference-Aware LLMs via Distill-Audit-Repair Training

Ziwen Pan, Zihan Liang, Jad Kabbara +1

Large language models (LLMs) tuned for safety often avoid acknowledging demographic differences, even when such acknowledgment is factually correct (e.g., ancestry-based disease in…

cs.CL2026

Memory Dial: A Training Framework for Controllable Memorization in Language Models

Xiangbo Zhang, Ali Emami

Memorization in language models is widely studied but remains difficult to isolate and control. Understanding when and what models memorize is essential for explaining their predic…

cs.CL2025

Trace-of-Thought Prompting: Investigating Prompt-Based Knowledge Distillation Through Question Decomposition

Tyler McDonald, Ali Emami

Knowledge distillation allows smaller neural networks to emulate the performance of larger, teacher models with reduced computational demands. Traditional methods for Large Languag…