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20222026
most citedSQL-PaLM: Improved Large Language Model Adaptation for Text-to-SQL (extended)

29 citations · 52 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

Harmony Harness: Multi-Objective Self-Evolution of Agent Harnesses

Weichen Yu, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra +5

Recent work on self-evolving LLM agents treats the agent harness as an optimization target that can be iteratively improved through execution feedback. Existing approaches, however…

cs.AI2026

VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails

Duy Nguyen, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra +5

LLM agents increasingly operate over sensitive resources, such as private documents and mutable system states, which can create serious safety and security risks. Runtime guardrail…

cs.CR2026

PI-Hunter: Automated Red-Teaming for Exposing and Localizing Prompt Injections

Pengfei He, Lesly Miculicich, Vishesh Sharma +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into agentic systems that interact with external tools and environments, introducing new security risks such as indirect prompt in…

cs.LG2026

LiSA: Lifelong Safety Adaptation via Conservative Policy Induction

Minbeom Kim, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra +6

As AI agents move from chat interfaces to systems that read private data, call tools, and execute multi-step workflows, guardrails become a last line of defense against concrete de…

cs.CR2026

CausalArmor: Efficient Indirect Prompt Injection Guardrails via Causal Attribution

Minbeom Kim, Mihir Parmar, Phillip Wallis +5

AI agents equipped with tool-calling capabilities are susceptible to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks. In this attack scenario, malicious commands hidden within untrusted co…

cs.LG2026

Co-RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents

Pengfei He, Ash Fox, Lesly Miculicich +7

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in assisting cybersecurity tasks, yet existing approaches struggle with automatic vulnerability discovery and exploitation due to li…

cs.LG2025

Synapse: Adaptive Arbitration of Complementary Expertise in Time Series Foundational Models

Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Palash Goyal, Mihir Parmar +7

Pre-trained Time Series Foundational Models (TSFMs) represent a significant advance, capable of forecasting diverse time series with complex characteristics, including varied seaso…

cs.SE2025

VeriGuard: Enhancing LLM Agent Safety via Verified Code Generation

Lesly Miculicich, Mihir Parmar, Hamid Palangi +4

The deployment of autonomous AI agents in sensitive domains, such as healthcare, introduces critical risks to safety, security, and privacy. These agents may deviate from user obje…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

SQL-GEN: Bridging the Dialect Gap for Text-to-SQL Via Synthetic Data And Model Merging

Mohammadreza Pourreza, Ruoxi Sun, Hailong Li +3

Recent advances in Text-to-SQL have largely focused on the SQLite dialect, neglecting the diverse landscape of SQL dialects like BigQuery and PostgreSQL. This limitation is due to…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Model Swarms: Collaborative Search to Adapt LLM Experts via Swarm Intelligence

Shangbin Feng, Zifeng Wang, Yike Wang +9

We propose Model Swarms, a collaborative search algorithm to adapt LLMs via swarm intelligence, the collective behavior guiding individual systems. Specifically, Model Swarms start…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

TableRAG: Million-Token Table Understanding with Language Models

Si-An Chen, Lesly Miculicich, Julian Martin Eisenschlos +7

Recent advancements in language models (LMs) have notably enhanced their ability to reason with tabular data, primarily through program-aided mechanisms that manipulate and analyze…

cs.CL2024

CaLM: Contrasting Large and Small Language Models to Verify Grounded Generation

I-Hung Hsu, Zifeng Wang, Long T. Le +4

Grounded generation aims to equip language models (LMs) with the ability to produce more credible and accountable responses by accurately citing verifiable sources. However, existi…

cs.CL2024★ 12 cited

Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding

Zilong Wang, Hao Zhang, Chun-Liang Li +8

Table-based reasoning with large language models (LLMs) is a promising direction to tackle many table understanding tasks, such as table-based question answering and fact verificat…

cs.CL2023

Transformers as Graph-to-Graph Models

James Henderson, Alireza Mohammadshahi, Andrei C. Coman +1

We argue that Transformers are essentially graph-to-graph models, with sequences just being a special case. Attention weights are functionally equivalent to graph edges. Our Graph-…

cs.CL2023★ 29 cited

SQL-PaLM: Improved Large Language Model Adaptation for Text-to-SQL (extended)

Ruoxi Sun, Sercan Ö. Arik, Alex Muzio +8

Text-to-SQL, the process of translating natural language into Structured Query Language (SQL), represents a transformative application of large language models (LLMs), potentially…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Summarization with Precise Length Control

Lesly Miculicich, Yujia Xie, Song Wang +1

Many applications of text generation such as summarization benefit from accurately controlling the text length. Existing approaches on length-controlled summarization either result…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Document Summarization with Text Segmentation

Lesly Miculicich, Benjamin Han

In this paper, we exploit the innate document segment structure for improving the extractive summarization task. We build two text segmentation models and find the most optimal str…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Attend to the Right Context: A Plug-and-Play Module for Content-Controllable Summarization

Wen Xiao, Lesly Miculicich, Yang Liu +2

Content-Controllable Summarization generates summaries focused on the given controlling signals. Due to the lack of large-scale training corpora for the task, we propose a plug-and…

cs.CL2022

Graph Refinement for Coreference Resolution

Lesly Miculicich, James Henderson

The state-of-the-art models for coreference resolution are based on independent mention pair-wise decisions. We propose a modelling approach that learns coreference at the document…