activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.CY2026

The Tilted Playing Field for Women in Science

Casandra Rusti, Hussain Hussain, Kian Ahrabian +4

Institutional prestige shapes access to resources, visibility, and collaboration opportunities in science. Yet whether prestige benefits researchers equally, and how it relates to…

cs.CL2026

Toward Better Temporal Structures for Geopolitical Events Forecasting

Kian Ahrabian, Eric Boxer, Jay Pujara

Forecasting on geopolitical temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) through the lens of large language models (LLMs) has recently gained traction. While TKGs and their generalization, hyp…

cs.AI2025

LOGicalThought: Logic-Based Ontological Grounding of LLMs for High-Assurance Reasoning

Navapat Nananukul, Yue Zhang, Ryan Lee +5

High-assurance reasoning, particularly in critical domains such as law and medicine, requires conclusions that are accurate, verifiable, and explicitly grounded in evidence. This r…

cs.CR2025

RED QUEEN: Safeguarding Large Language Models against Concealed Multi-Turn Jailbreaking

Yifan Jiang, Kriti Aggarwal, Tanmay Laud +3

The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities across various domains and applications; yet it also presents challenges related to potential mis…

cs.CL2025

A Systematic Analysis of Base Model Choice for Reward Modeling

Kian Ahrabian, Pegah Jandaghi, Negar Mokhberian +2

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and, at its core, reward modeling have become a crucial part of training powerful large language models (LLMs). One commonly overl…

cs.CL2025

A Practical Analysis of Human Alignment with *PO

Kian Ahrabian, Xihui Lin, Barun Patra +4

At the forefront of state-of-the-art human alignment methods are preference optimization methods (*PO). Prior research has often concentrated on identifying the best-performing met…