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cs.IR2026

With Argus Eyes: Assessing Retrieval Gaps via Uncertainty Scoring to Detect and Remedy Retrieval Blind Spots

Zeinab Sadat Taghavi, Ali Modarressi, Hinrich Schutze +1

The paper identifies blind spots in neural retrievers used for retrieval‑augmented generation, where relevant entities are missed due to low embedding similarity, and proposes an u…

cs.CL2026

Expert-Aware Causal Tracing of Factual Recall in Sparse MoE Language Models

Yuetian Lu, Ali Modarressi, Yihong Liu +1

Causal tracing of factual recall has been studied predominantly in dense transformer language models, where interventions localize information flow to layers or feed-forward module…

cs.CL2026

Steering MoE LLMs via Expert (De)Activation

Mohsen Fayyaz, Ali Modarressi, Hanieh Deilamsalehy +5

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) in Large Language Models (LLMs) routes each token through a subset of specialized Feed-Forward Networks (FFN), known as experts. We present SteerMoE, a fra…

cs.CL2026

Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions

Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo, Michael A. Hedderich, Ali Modarressi +2

Persona-assigned large language models (LLMs) are used in domains such as education, healthcare, and sociodemographic simulation. Yet, they are typically evaluated only in short, s…

cs.CL2025

ImpliRet: Benchmarking the Implicit Fact Retrieval Challenge

Zeinab Sadat Taghavi, Ali Modarressi, Yunpu Ma +1

Retrieval systems are central to many NLP pipelines, but often rely on surface-level cues such as keyword overlap and lexical semantic similarity. To evaluate retrieval beyond thes…

cs.CL2025

NoLiMa: Long-Context Evaluation Beyond Literal Matching

Ali Modarressi, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt +4

Recent large language models (LLMs) support long contexts ranging from 128K to 1M tokens. A popular method for evaluating these capabilities is the needle-in-a-haystack (NIAH) test…