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most citedHypothesis Generation for Materials Discovery and Design Using Goal-Driven and Constraint-Guided LLM Agents

3 citations · 4 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2026

No-Box Vulnerability Analysis: Description-only Detection of Indirect Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in MCP Servers

Zehua Zhang, Jie Hu, Pratham Hegde +14

Conventional vulnerability analysis relies on either system access or dynamic interaction, all of which may be unavailable to third-party analysts auditing closed-source, remotely…

cs.AI2026

Mid-Training with Self-Generated Data Improves Reinforcement Learning in Language Models

Aswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa +4

The effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in Large Language Models (LLMs) depends on the nature and diversity of the data used before and during RL. In particular, reasoning…

cs.AI2025

OptAgent: Optimizing Query Rewriting for E-commerce via Multi-Agent Simulation

Divij Handa, David Blincoe, Orson Adams +1

Deploying capable and user-aligned LLM-based systems necessitates reliable evaluation. While LLMs excel in verifiable tasks like coding and mathematics, where gold-standard solutio…

cs.AI2025

GuidedSampling: Steering LLMs Towards Diverse Candidate Solutions at Inference-Time

Divij Handa, Mihir Parmar, Aswin RRV +3

Repeated Sampling (RS) is a simple inference-time algorithm that has been shown to improve model performance on complex tasks. Although it is an effective way of scaling inference…

cs.SE2025

BuildBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open-Source Software

Zehua Zhang, Ati Priya Bajaj, Divij Handa +14

Automatically compiling open-source software (OSS) projects is a vital, labor-intensive, and complex task, which makes it a good challenge for LLM Agents. Existing methods rely on…

cs.AI2025

ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without Distillation

Aswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa +4

Recent advances in test-time scaling have led to the emergence of thinking LLMs that exhibit self-reflective behaviors and multi-step reasoning. While RL drives this self-improveme…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Hypothesis Generation for Materials Discovery and Design Using Goal-Driven and Constraint-Guided LLM Agents

Shrinidhi Kumbhar, Venkatesh Mishra, Kevin Coutinho +3

Materials discovery and design are essential for advancing technology across various industries by enabling the development of application-specific materials. Recent research has l…

cs.CL2024

UnSeenTimeQA: Time-Sensitive Question-Answering Beyond LLMs' Memorization

Md Nayem Uddin, Amir Saeidi, Divij Handa +5

This paper introduces UnSeenTimeQA, a novel data contamination-free time-sensitive question-answering (TSQA) benchmark. It differs from existing TSQA benchmarks by avoiding web-sea…

cs.CC2024

ActionReasoningBench: Reasoning about Actions with and without Ramification Constraints

Divij Handa, Pavel Dolin, Shrinidhi Kumbhar +2

Reasoning about Actions and Change (RAC) has historically played a pivotal role in solving foundational AI problems, such as the frame problem. It has driven advancements in AI fie…

cs.CL2024

When "Competency" in Reasoning Opens the Door to Vulnerability: Jailbreaking LLMs via Novel Complex Ciphers

Divij Handa, Zehua Zhang, Amir Saeidi +4

Recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) safety have primarily focused on mitigating attacks crafted in natural language or common ciphers (e.g. Base64), which are likely…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Can NLP Models Correctly Reason Over Contexts that Break the Common Assumptions?

Neeraj Varshney, Mihir Parmar, Nisarg Patel +4

Pre-training on large corpora of text enables the language models to acquire a vast amount of factual and commonsense knowledge which allows them to achieve remarkable performance…