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12 papers

cs.CR2026

Can Watermarking Techniques Help Prevent LLM Model Stealing?

Elette Boyle, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Keivan Rezaei +2

Model stealing attacks have recently been introduced, enabling the extraction of precise information from black-box commercial language models. In this work, we propose defense met…

cs.CL2026

SpecHop: Continuous Speculation for Accelerating Multi-Hop Retrieval Agents

Mehrdad Saberi, Keivan Rezaei, Soheil Feizi

Large language models increasingly use external tools such as web search and document retrieval to solve information-intensive tasks. However, multi-hop tool use in complex tasks i…

cs.AI2026

Model-Adaptive Tool Necessity Reveals the Knowing-Doing Gap in LLM Tool Use

Yize Cheng, Chenrui Fan, Mahdi JafariRaviz +2

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act as autonomous agents that must decide when to answer directly vs. when to invoke external tools. Prior work studying adaptive tool use…

cs.LG2026

Revisiting the Past: Data Unlearning with Model State History

Keivan Rezaei, Mehrdad Saberi, Abhilasha Ravichander +1

Large language models are trained on massive corpora of web data, which may include private data, copyrighted material, factually inaccurate data, or data that degrades model perfo…

cs.LG2026

Failing to Explore: Language Models on Interactive Tasks

Mahdi JafariRaviz, Keivan Rezaei, Arshia Soltani Moakhar +3

We evaluate language models on their ability to explore interactive environments under a limited interaction budget. We introduce three parametric tasks with controllable explorati…

cs.CV2026

Localizing Knowledge in Diffusion Transformers

Arman Zarei, Samyadeep Basu, Keivan Rezaei +3

Understanding how knowledge is distributed across the layers of generative models is crucial for improving interpretability, controllability, and adaptation. While prior work has e…