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most citedQA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA

3 citations · 4 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AI2026

-Emotion-Bench: Exposing the Interaction Fragility of LLM Agents through Real-World User Emotions

Rishitosh Kumar Singh, Amir Saeidi, Shamanthak Hegde +2

In long-horizon tool-calling tasks, LLM agents can fail not only because of tool-use errors, but also because of ineffective interaction with users. Yet existing benchmarks largely…

cs.CL2026

COGTRL: Training LLMs for Scientific Discovery Assistance using Cognitive Traces via Reinforcement Learning

Shrinidhi Kumbhar, Santosh Mashetty, Divij Handa +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on extensive scientific research are increasingly integrated as assistants for scientific discovery. However, most research papers omit the fin…

cs.CL2026

CAST: Critique-Aware Supervision for Training Reliable Long-Horizon Tool-Calling Agents

Amir Saeidi, Zehua Zhang, Rishitosh Singh +6

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in long-horizon, interactive, and stateful environments. In these settings, a single wrong action, such as refunding the…

cs.AI2026

LedgerAgent: Structured State for Policy-Adherent Tool-Calling Agents

Md Nayem Uddin, Amir Saeidi, Eduardo Blanco +1

Policy-adherent tool-calling agents in customer-service domains must maintain task states across turns while calling tools and obeying domain policies. Task states consist of relev…

cs.CL2026

FAMA: Failure-Aware Meta-Agentic Framework for Open-Source LLMs in Interactive Tool Use Environments

Amir Saeidi, Venkatesh Mishra, Souradeep Mukhopadhyay +4

Large Language Models are being increasingly deployed as the decision-making core of autonomous agents capable of effecting change in external environments. Yet, in conversational…

cs.CL2026

From Recall to Forgetting: Benchmarking Long-Term Memory for Personalized Agents

Md Nayem Uddin, Kumar Shubham, Eduardo Blanco +2

Personalized agents that interact with users over long periods must maintain persistent memory across sessions and update it as circumstances change. However, existing benchmarks p…

cs.CL2025

Cognitive bias in LLM reasoning compromises interpretation of clinical oncology notes

Matthew W. Kenaston, Umair Ayub, Mihir Parmar +14

Despite high performance on clinical benchmarks, large language models may reach correct conclusions through faulty reasoning, a failure mode with safety implications for oncology…

cs.CV2025

Harnessing Synthetic Preference Data for Enhancing Temporal Understanding of Video-LLMs

Sameep Vani, Shreyas Jena, Maitreya Patel +3

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across general video understanding benchmarks-particularly in video captioning and descripti…

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.CL2025

How Can Input Reformulation Improve Tool Usage Accuracy in a Complex Dynamic Environment? A Study on -bench

Venkatesh Mishra, Amir Saeidi, Satyam Raj +5

Recent advances in reasoning and planning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have enabled their potential as autonomous agents capable of tool use in dynamic environments…

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

QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA

Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Qin Liu +8

Alignment of large language models (LLMs) with principles like helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness typically relies on scalar rewards that obscure which objectives drive the tra…

cs.CL2025

Map&Make: Schema Guided Text to Table Generation

Naman Ahuja, Fenil Bardoliya, Chitta Baral +1

Transforming dense, detailed, unstructured text into an interpretable and summarised table, also colloquially known as Text-to-Table generation, is an essential task for informatio…

cs.CL2025

Investigating the Shortcomings of LLMs in Step-by-Step Legal Reasoning

Venkatesh Mishra, Bimsara Pathiraja, Mihir Parmar +5

Reasoning abilities of LLMs have been a key focus in recent years. One challenging reasoning domain with interesting nuances is legal reasoning, which requires careful application…

cs.CV2025

Dual Caption Preference Optimization for Diffusion Models

Amir Saeidi, Yiran Luo, Agneet Chatterjee +4

Recent advancements in human preference optimization, originally developed for Large Language Models (LLMs), have shown significant potential in improving text-to-image diffusion m…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Triple Preference Optimization: Achieving Better Alignment using a Single Step Optimization

Amir Saeidi, Shivanshu Verma, Aswin RRV +2

Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) enhances the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, its limitations have led to the development of Direct Preference…