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20222026
most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

565 citations · 813 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.IR2026

Subtraction Gets You More: Gap-Aware Retrieval for Multimodal Multi-Hop QA

Sunah O, Jay-Yoon Lee

In multimodal multi-hop question answering, we focus on the initial retrieval stage via two distinct tasks: (1) evidence set completion, retrieving missing evidence given context,…

cs.CL2026

ConvApparel: A Benchmark Dataset and Validation Framework for User Simulators in Conversational Recommenders

Ofer Meshi, Krisztian Balog, Sally Goldman +5

The promise of LLM-based user simulators to improve conversational AI is hindered by a critical "realism gap," leading to systems that are optimized for simulated interactions, but…

cs.CL2025

DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models' Understanding on Indian Culture

Arijit Maji, Raghvendra Kumar, Akash Ghosh +6

We introduce DRISHTIKON, a first-of-its-kind multimodal and multilingual benchmark centered exclusively on Indian culture, designed to evaluate the cultural understanding of genera…

cs.CL2025

RTTC: Reward-Guided Collaborative Test-Time Compute

J. Pablo Muñoz, Jinjie Yuan

Test-Time Compute (TTC) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) at inference, leveraging strategies such as Test-Time Train…

cs.CV2025

LLaVA-RE: Binary Image-Text Relevancy Evaluation with Multimodal Large Language Model

Tao Sun, Oliver Liu, JinJin Li +1

Multimodal generative AI usually involves generating image or text responses given inputs in another modality. The evaluation of image-text relevancy is essential for measuring res…

cs.CL2025

InvestAlign: Overcoming Data Scarcity in Aligning Large Language Models with Investor Decision-Making Processes under Herd Behavior

Huisheng Wang, Zhuoshi Pan, Hangjing Zhang +3

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with investor decision-making processes under herd behavior is a critical challenge in behavioral finance, which grapples with a fundamental l…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Assay2Mol: large language model-based drug design using BioAssay context

Yifan Deng, Spencer S. Ericksen, Anthony Gitter

Scientific databases aggregate vast amounts of quantitative data alongside descriptive text. In biochemistry, molecule screening assays evaluate candidate molecules' functional res…

cs.CL2025

Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking

Jingyu Zhang, Ahmed Elgohary, Xiawei Wang +5

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly deployed in critical applications, raising urgent needs for robust safety benchmarking. We propose Jailbreak Distillation (JBDistill), a no…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Linear Steering: Unified Multi-Attribute Control for Language Models

Narmeen Oozeer, Luke Marks, Shreyans Jain +2

Controlling multiple behavioral attributes in large language models (LLMs) at inference time is a challenging problem due to interference between attributes and the limitations of…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

SEA-LION: Southeast Asian Languages in One Network

Raymond Ng, Thanh Ngan Nguyen, Yuli Huang +28

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated much of the artificial intelligence scene with their ability to process and generate natural languages. However, the majority…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Sleepless Nights, Sugary Days: Creating Synthetic Users with Health Conditions for Realistic Coaching Agent Interactions

Taedong Yun, Eric Yang, Mustafa Safdari +13

We present an end-to-end framework for generating synthetic users for evaluating interactive agents designed to encourage positive behavior changes, such as in health and lifestyle…

cs.CL2025★ 7 cited

Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming

Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Jesse Mu +40

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to universal jailbreaks-prompting strategies that systematically bypass model safeguards and enable users to carry out harmful processes…

cs.CL2024

Explaining and Improving Contrastive Decoding by Extrapolating the Probabilities of a Huge and Hypothetical LM

Haw-Shiuan Chang, Nanyun Peng, Mohit Bansal +2

Contrastive decoding (CD) (Li et al., 2023) improves the next-token distribution of a large expert language model (LM) using a small amateur LM. Although CD is applied to various L…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Towards Implicit Bias Detection and Mitigation in Multi-Agent LLM Interactions

Angana Borah, Rada Mihalcea

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, they are increasingly being employed in numerous studies to simulate societies and execute diverse social tasks. However, LLMs a…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Rel-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance

Kaitlyn Zhou, Jena D. Hwang, Xiang Ren +3

The ability to communicate uncertainty, risk, and limitation is crucial for the safety of large language models. However, current evaluations of these abilities rely on simple cali…

cs.CL2024

Naive Bayes-based Context Extension for Large Language Models

Jianlin Su, Murtadha Ahmed, Wenbo +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising in-context learning abilities. However, conventional In-Context Learning (ICL) approaches are often impeded by length limitations…

cs.CL2024

Assessing biomedical knowledge robustness in large language models by query-efficient sampling attacks

R. Patrick Xian, Alex J. Lee, Satvik Lolla +4

The increasing depth of parametric domain knowledge in large language models (LLMs) is fueling their rapid deployment in real-world applications. Understanding model vulnerabilitie…

cs.CR2024★ 39 cited

Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu +36

Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when giv…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

Evaluating and Mitigating Discrimination in Language Model Decisions

Alex Tamkin, Amanda Askell, Liane Lovitt +6

As language models (LMs) advance, interest is growing in applying them to high-stakes societal decisions, such as determining financing or housing eligibility. However, their poten…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Specific versus General Principles for Constitutional AI

Sandipan Kundu, Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath +33

Human feedback can prevent overtly harmful utterances in conversational models, but may not automatically mitigate subtle problematic behaviors such as a stated desire for self-pre…

cs.CL2023★ 130 cited

Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models

Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Tomasz Korbak +16

Human feedback is commonly utilized to finetune AI assistants. But human feedback may also encourage model responses that match user beliefs over truthful ones, a behaviour known a…

cs.CL2023★ 45 cited

Towards Measuring the Representation of Subjective Global Opinions in Language Models

Esin Durmus, Karina Nguyen, Thomas I. Liao +15

Large language models (LLMs) may not equitably represent diverse global perspectives on societal issues. In this paper, we develop a quantitative framework to evaluate whose opinio…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…