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most citedFHIST: A Benchmark for Few-shot Classification of Histological Images

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31 papers

cs.AI2026

FIGS: Evaluating Multi-Turn Sycophancy Without Penalizing Empathy

Sidharth Pulipaka, Ruta Binkyte, Ivaxi Sheth +1

Large language models frequently fail to balance staying truthful with being supportive. They often exhibit sycophancy in responses to users, agreeing with false claims, offering u…

cs.AI2026

Share-Borne AI Virus: Memory-Hopping Attacks Across LLM Agents

Sidharth Pulipaka, Ansh Sharma, Stanislau Hlebik +4

Large language models are increasingly deployed as stateful assistants that retain information across interactions and use tools to read, modify, and create persistent artifacts. A…

cs.SE2026

Fabrication After Tool Failure: Tool-Augmented Agents Assert Values Their Tools Did Not Return

Arham Sethi, Arsen Kenzhebayev, Saanvi Paturi +3

Tool-augmented language models are evaluated on whether they reach the right answer, not on whether they report honestly when a tool fails to supply one. We isolate this post-failu…

cs.CL2026

When Tools Get in the Way: The Effect of Unnecessary Tool Availability on LLM Answering

Saanvi Paturi, Arsen Kenzhebayev, Arham Sethi +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed with external tools that extend what they can do beyond their own knowledge. Tools help on tasks that need external informati…

cs.AI2026

Mitigating Over-Personalization in LLMs via Structured Memory

Hakeem Hannoon, Andrew Zhao, Mihir Narayan +2

Conversational assistants increasingly rely on persistent long-term memory to personalize responses across sessions. However, when stored user information is reintroduced into the…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

Trustworthy AI Suffers from Invariance Conflicts and Causality is The Solution

Ruta Binkyte, Ivaxi Sheth, Zhijing Jin +3

As artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML) models and foundation models (FMs), are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, ensuring their trustworthines…

cs.CR2026

Hidden in Memory: Sleeper Memory Poisoning in LLM Agents

Sidharth Pulipaka, Stanislau Hlebik, Leonidas Raghav +4

Large language models are increasingly augmented with persistent memory, allowing assistants to store user-specific information across sessions for personalization and continuity.…

cs.CL2026

Cross-Lingual LLM-Judge Transfer via Evaluation Decomposition

Ivaxi Sheth, Zeno Jonke, Amin Mantrach +1

As large language models are increasingly deployed across diverse real-world applications, extending automated evaluation beyond English has become a critical challenge. Existing e…

cs.AI2026

IV Co-Scientist: Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Causal Instrumental Variable Discovery

Ivaxi Sheth, Zhijing Jin, Bryan Wilder +2

In the presence of confounding between an endogenous variable and the outcome, instrumental variables (IVs) are used to isolate the causal effect of the endogenous variable. Identi…

cs.AI2026

PersistBench: When Should Long-Term Memories Be Forgotten by LLMs?

Sidharth Pulipaka, Oliver Chen, Manas Sharma +3

Conversational assistants are increasingly integrating long-term memory with large language models (LLMs). This persistence of memories, e.g., the user is vegetarian, can enhance p…

cs.CL2026

Funny or Persuasive, but Not Both: Evaluating Fine-Grained Multi-Concept Control in LLMs

Arya Labroo, Ivaxi Sheth, Vyas Raina +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer strong generative capabilities, but many applications require explicit and \textit{fine-grained} control over specific textual concepts, such as…

cs.CY2025

Justice in Judgment: Unveiling (Hidden) Bias in LLM-assisted Peer Reviews

Sai Suresh Macharla Vasu, Ivaxi Sheth, Hui-Po Wang +2

The adoption of large language models (LLMs) is transforming the peer review process, from assisting reviewers in writing detailed evaluations to generating entire reviews automati…

cs.AR2025

ProtocolLLM: RTL Benchmark for SystemVerilog Generation of Communication Protocols

Arnav Sheth, Ivaxi Sheth, Mario Fritz

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in generating code for general-purpose programming languages. However, their potential for hard…

cs.LG2025

Causality Is Key to Understand and Balance Multiple Goals in Trustworthy ML and Foundation Models

Ruta Binkyte, Ivaxi Sheth, Zhijing Jin +3

Ensuring trustworthiness in machine learning (ML) systems is crucial as they become increasingly embedded in high-stakes domains. This paper advocates for integrating causal method…

cs.AI2025

Safety Must Precede the Deployment of Open-Ended AI

Ivaxi Sheth, Jan Wehner, Sahar Abdelnabi +2

AI advancements have been significantly driven by a combination of foundation models and curiosity-driven learning aimed at increasing capability and adaptability. Within this land…

cs.AI2024

MedG-KRP: Medical Graph Knowledge Representation Probing

Gabriel R. Rosenbaum, Lavender Yao Jiang, Ivaxi Sheth +11

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools, finding many medical applications. LLMs' ability to coalesce vast amounts of information from many sources to…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

LLM4GRN: Discovering Causal Gene Regulatory Networks with LLMs -- Evaluation through Synthetic Data Generation

Tejumade Afonja, Ivaxi Sheth, Ruta Binkyte +4

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) represent the causal relationships between transcription factors (TFs) and target genes in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. Understandin…

cs.CL2024

CausalGraph2LLM: Evaluating LLMs for Causal Queries

Ivaxi Sheth, Bahare Fatemi, Mario Fritz

Causality is essential in scientific research, enabling researchers to interpret true relationships between variables. These causal relationships are often represented by causal gr…

cs.LG2024

Context-Aware Reasoning On Parametric Knowledge for Inferring Causal Variables

Ivaxi Sheth, Sahar Abdelnabi, Mario Fritz

Scientific discovery catalyzes human intellectual advances, driven by the cycle of hypothesis generation, experimental design, evaluation, and assumption refinement. Central to thi…

cs.CL2024

LLM Task Interference: An Initial Study on the Impact of Task-Switch in Conversational History

Akash Gupta, Ivaxi Sheth, Vyas Raina +2

With the recent emergence of powerful instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs), various helpful conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have been deployed across…

cs.LG2023

Auxiliary Losses for Learning Generalizable Concept-based Models

Ivaxi Sheth, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

The increasing use of neural networks in various applications has lead to increasing apprehensions, underscoring the necessity to understand their operations beyond mere final pred…

cs.CY2023★ 3 cited

Survey on AI Ethics: A Socio-technical Perspective

Dave Mbiazi, Meghana Bhange, Maryam Babaei +3

The past decade has observed a significant advancement in AI with deep learning-based models being deployed in diverse scenarios, including safety-critical applications. As these A…

cs.LG2023

Transparent Anomaly Detection via Concept-based Explanations

Laya Rafiee Sevyeri, Ivaxi Sheth, Farhood Farahnak +2

Advancements in deep learning techniques have given a boost to the performance of anomaly detection. However, real-world and safety-critical applications demand a level of transpar…

cs.CV2023

WiCV@CVPR2023: The Eleventh Women In Computer Vision Workshop at the Annual CVPR Conference

Doris Antensteiner, Marah Halawa, Asra Aslam +6

In this paper, we present the details of Women in Computer Vision Workshop - WiCV 2023, organized alongside the hybrid CVPR 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. WiCV aims to amplify the voic…