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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Commonsense Knowledge with Negation: A Resource to Enhance Negation Understanding

Zijie Wang, MohammadHossein Rezaei, Farzana Rashid +1

Negation is a common and important semantic feature in natural language, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle when negation is involved in natural language understanding tasks…

cs.LG2026

LLM Reasoning with Process Rewards for Outcome-Guided Steps

Mohammad Rezaei, Jens Lehmann, Sahar Vahdati

Mathematical reasoning in large language models has improved substantially with reinforcement learning using verifiable rewards, where final answers can be checked automatically an…

cs.CL2025

Online Rubrics Elicitation from Pairwise Comparisons

MohammadHossein Rezaei, Robert Vacareanu, Zihao Wang +4

Rubrics provide a flexible way to train LLMs on open-ended long-form answers where verifiable rewards are not applicable and human preferences provide coarse signals. Prior work sh…

cs.CL2025

Making Language Models Robust Against Negation

MohammadHossein Rezaei, Eduardo Blanco

Negation has been a long-standing challenge for language models. Previous studies have shown that they struggle with negation in many natural language understanding tasks. In this…

cs.CV2025

EgoNormia: Benchmarking Physical Social Norm Understanding

MohammadHossein Rezaei, Yicheng Fu, Phil Cuvin +4

Human activity is moderated by norms; however, supervision for normative reasoning is sparse, particularly where norms are physically- or socially-grounded. We thus present EGONORM…