7 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…