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cs.CL2026

TEMPER: Testing Emotional Perturbation in Quantitative Reasoning

Atahan Dokme, Benjamin Reichman, Larry Heck

Large language models are trained and evaluated on quantitative reasoning tasks written in clean, emotionally neutral language. However, real-world queries are often wrapped in fru…

cs.CL2026

Emotion is Not Just a Label: Latent Emotional Factors in LLM Processing

Benjamin Reichman, Adar Avsian, Samuel Webster +1

Large language models are routinely deployed on text that varies widely in emotional tone, yet their reasoning behavior is typically evaluated without accounting for emotion as a s…

cs.CL2025

Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language Models

Benjamin Reichman, Adar Avsian, Larry Heck

This work investigates how large language models (LLMs) internally represent emotion by analyzing the geometry of their hidden-state space. The paper identifies a low-dimensional e…

cs.CL2025

SensorQA: A Question Answering Benchmark for Daily-Life Monitoring

Benjamin Reichman, Xiaofan Yu, Lanxiang Hu +5

With the rapid growth in sensor data, effectively interpreting and interfacing with these data in a human-understandable way has become crucial. While existing research primarily f…

cs.CL2025

"Yeah Right!" -- Do LLMs Exhibit Multimodal Feature Transfer?

Benjamin Reichman, Kartik Talamadupula

Human communication is a multifaceted and multimodal skill. Communication requires an understanding of both the surface-level textual content and the connotative intent of a piece…

cs.CL2025

Reading with Intent -- Neutralizing Intent

Benjamin Reichman, Adar Avsian, Larry Heck

Queries to large language models (LLMs) can be divided into two parts: the instruction/question and the accompanying context. The context for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) s…

cs.CL2024

Emotional RAG LLMs: Reading Comprehension for the Open Internet

Benjamin Reichman, Adar Avsian, Kartik Talamadupula +2

Queries to large language models (LLMs) can be divided into two parts: the instruction/question and the accompanying context. The context for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) s…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Dense Passage Retrieval: Is it Retrieving?

Benjamin Reichman, Larry Heck

Dense passage retrieval (DPR) is the first step in the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) paradigm for improving the performance of large language models (LLM). DPR fine-tunes pr…