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cs.LG2026

Fork-Think with Confidence

Zena Al-Khalili, Rafi Hakim, Dietrich Klakow +1

Parallel thinking has enjoyed great success for boosting LLM performance on reasoning tasks without the need for any re-training. However, existing methods follow a think-first-the…

cs.CL2026

A Mechanistic Understanding of Pronoun Fidelity in LLMs

Katharina Trinley, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Dietrich Klakow +1

Faithful and robust pronoun use is important for fair and coherent generations, yet large language models largely fail when multiple referents use different pronouns. To study the…

cs.CL2026

AfrIFact: Cultural Information Retrieval, Evidence Extraction and Fact Checking for African Languages

Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Crystina Zhang +16

Assessing the veracity of a claim made online is a complex and important task with real-world implications. When these claims are directed at communities with limited access to inf…

cs.LG2026

On Optimizing Multimodal Jailbreaks for Spoken Language Models

Aravind Krishnan, Karolina Stańczak, Dietrich Klakow

As Spoken Language Models (SLMs) integrate speech and text modalities, they inherit the safety vulnerabilities of their LLM backbone while introducing an expanded attack surface. S…

cs.AI2026

Split Personality Training: Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Alternate Personalities

Florian Dietz, William Wale, Oscar Gilg +5

Detecting misalignment in large language models is challenging because models may learn to conceal misbehavior during training. Standard auditing techniques fall short: black-box m…

cs.CL2026

AmharicStoryQA: A Multicultural Story Question Answering Benchmark in Amharic

Israel Abebe Azime, Abenezer Kebede Angamo, Hana Mekonen Tamiru +4

With the growing emphasis on multilingual and cultural evaluation benchmarks for large language models, language and culture are often treated as synonymous, and performance is com…