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20242026
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6 papers

cs.AI2026

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova +5

Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents…

cs.CR2026

Layer-Targeted Multilingual Knowledge Erasure in Large Language Models

Taoran Li, Varun Chandrasekaran, Zhiyuan Yu

Recent work has demonstrated that machine unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) fails to generalize across languages: knowledge erased in one language frequently remains acces…

cs.LG2025

AMUN: Adversarial Machine UNlearning

Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Hari Sundaram, Varun Chandrasekaran

Machine unlearning, where users can request the deletion of a forget dataset, is becoming increasingly important because of numerous privacy regulations. Initial works on ``exact''…

cs.LG2025

BenchAgents: Multi-Agent Systems for Structured Benchmark Creation

Natasha Butt, Varun Chandrasekaran, Neel Joshi +2

Evaluation insights are limited by the availability of high-quality benchmarks. As models evolve, there is a need to create benchmarks that can measure progress on new and complex…

cs.CV2025

MM-GEN: Enhancing Task Performance Through Targeted Multimodal Data Curation

Siddharth Joshi, Besmira Nushi, Vidhisha Balachandran +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) are highly effective but often underperform on specialized tasks; for example, Llava-1.5 struggles with chart and diagram understanding due to scarce…

cs.CR2024

The Efficacy of Transfer-based No-box Attacks on Image Watermarking: A Pragmatic Analysis

Qilong Wu, Varun Chandrasekaran

Watermarking approaches are widely used to identify if images being circulated are authentic or AI-generated. Determining the robustness of image watermarking methods in the ``no-b…