collaborators

9 papers

cs.CL2026

From Personas to Plot: Character-Grounded Multi-Agent Story Generation for Long-Form Narratives

Aayush Aluru, Chloe Ho, Muhammad Hammouri +5

Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive creative fiction generation, they struggle to maintain narrative consistency and coherent plot lines in long-form…

cs.LG2026

Mitigating Forgetting in Continual Learning with Selective Gradient Projection

Anika Singh, Aayush Dhaulakhandi, Varun Chopade +3

As neural networks are increasingly deployed in dynamic environments, they face the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, the tendency to overwrite previously learned knowledge whe…

cs.CR2026

CIPHER: Cryptographic Insecurity Profiling via Hybrid Evaluation of Responses

Max Manolov, Tony Gao, Siddharth Shukla +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assist developers with code, yet their implementations of cryptographic functionality often contain exploitable flaws. Minor d…

cs.LG2026

A Few Bad Neurons: Isolating and Surgically Correcting Sycophancy

Claire O'Brien, Jessica Seto, Dristi Roy +6

Behavioral alignment in large language models (LLMs) is often achieved through broad fine-tuning, which can result in undesired side effects like distributional shift and low inter…

cs.CL2025

Chopping Trees: Semantic Similarity Based Dynamic Pruning for Tree-of-Thought Reasoning

Joongho Kim, Xirui Huang, Zarreen Reza +1

Tree-of-Thought (ToT) reasoning boosts the problem-solving abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) but is computationally expensive due to semantic redundancy, where distinct bra…

cs.LG2025

Alignment-Constrained Dynamic Pruning for LLMs: Identifying and Preserving Alignment-Critical Circuits

Dev Patel, Gabrielle Gervacio, Diekola Raimi +5

Large Language Models require substantial computational resources for inference, posing deployment challenges. While dynamic pruning offers superior efficiency over static methods…