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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.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.CL20261 cited

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…

cs.CL2025

NYT-Connections: A Deceptively Simple Text Classification Task that Stumps System-1 Thinkers

Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez, Tyler McDonald, Ali Emami

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on various benchmarks, yet their ability to engage in deliberate reasoning remains questionable. We present NYT-Conne…

cs.CL2025

STOP! Benchmarking Large Language Models with Sensitivity Testing on Offensive Progressions

Robert Morabito, Sangmitra Madhusudan, Tyler McDonald +1

Mitigating explicit and implicit biases in Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a critical focus in the field of natural language processing. However, many current methodologies…