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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Rethinking LLM Verification: Evidence Structure, Uncertainty, and Selective Refinement

Uma Ranjan, Kunal Tilaganji, Aditya Koul +9

Large language models (LLMs) often rely on shortcuts rather than systematic reasoning, raising safety concerns in medical applications. Allowing models to abstain when uncertain im…

cs.AI2026

VERDICT: Training-Free Step-Wise Verification of Multimodal Reasoning via Disagreement-Aware Consensus

Rohit Sinha, Kunal Tilaganji, Tanuja Ganu +3

Multimodal large language models often generate reasoning chains containing subtle errors that lead to incorrect answers. Current verification approaches have notable limitations.…

cs.CV2026

A Nash Equilibrium Framework For Training-Free Multimodal Step Verification

Rohit Sinha, Kunal Tilaganji, Tanuja Ganu +3

Multimodal large language models often generate reasoning chains containing subtle errors that lead to incorrect answers. Current verification approaches have notable limitations.…

cs.CL2026

FrugalRAG: Less is More in RL Finetuning for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Abhinav Java, Srivathsan Koundinyan, Nagarajan Natarajan +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) based on the final answer's reward has driven recent progress in small language models (SLMs) on reasoning-heavy tasks such as math and code. However, a…

cs.LG2024

ASTRA: Accurate and Scalable ANNS-based Training of Extreme Classifiers

Sonu Mehta, Jayashree Mohan, Nagarajan Natarajan +2

`Extreme Classification'' (or XC) is the task of annotating data points (queries) with relevant labels (documents), from an extremely large set of possible labels, arising in s…