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6 papers

cs.AI2026

BayesBench: Evaluating LLM Belief Trajectories Under Multi-Turn Evidence Accumulation

Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Tal Lancewicki +7

Large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed in multi-turn conversations, where each turn provides new evidence that should reduce epistemic uncertainty about their environm…

cs.AI2026

Structure Enables Effective Self-Localization of Errors in LLMs

Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Ayush Jain +8

Self-correction in language models remains elusive. In this work, we explore whether language models can explicitly localize errors in incorrect reasoning, as a path toward buildin…

cs.AI2026

Credit Assignment with Resets in Language Model Reasoning

Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Ayush Jain +7

Contemporary reinforcement learning with verifiable reward methods post-train language models on multi-step reasoning by assigning a single outcome reward uniformly across all toke…

cs.CL2026

Principled Detection of Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Multiple Testing

Jiawei Li, Akshayaa Magesh, Venugopal V. Veeravalli

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful foundational models to solve a variety of tasks, they have also been shown to be prone to hallucinations, i.e., generati…

cs.AI2026

Self-Improvement of Language Models by Post-Training on Multi-Agent Debate

Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Runzhe Wu +7

Self-improvement, where models improve beyond their current performance without external supervision, remains a challenge. The core difficulty is sourcing a training signal stronge…

stat.ML2025

Heterogeneous Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandits Robust To Adversarial Attacks

Akshayaa Magesh, Venugopal V. Veeravalli

We consider a multi-player multi-armed bandit setting in the presence of adversaries that attempt to negatively affect the rewards received by the players in the system. The reward…