3 papers
cs.IR2026
PETRA: Transforming Web Text for Petroleum-Engineering Domain Adaptation
Kirill Dubovikov, Omar El Mansouri, Hachem Madmoun +12
Petroleum-engineering search exposes a supervision gap for strong general retrievers: relevant evidence exists in public web text, but domain relevance labels are scarce. To addres…
cs.CL2026
Leveraging LaBSE with Progressive Curriculum Learning for Multicultural Polarization
Sachin Sundar, Sandeep Kumar, Mothish M
Detecting online polarization remains a critical challenge, particularly in multilingual and multicultural contexts where intergroup hostility is prevalent. The problem is particul…
cs.LG2026
Curriculum Learning for Safety Alignment
Sandeep Kumar, Virginia Smith, Chhavi Yadav
Direct Preference Optimisation (DPO) is widely used for safety alignment in large language models. However, prior work shows it is brittle and exhibits poor out-of-distribution (OO…