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Lost with a Map: Conversational State and Behavioral Reliability in Language Models

Atahan Dokme, Larry Heck

Task-oriented dialogue requires maintaining and updating information across turns, yet language models expose no explicit belief-state object. We study how conversational state is…

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Selective State-Space Adaptation and Retrieval for Language Model Reasoning

Atahan Dokme, Larry Heck

Low-rank adaptation introduces a static learned update applied identically to every input. The update provides task-level adaptation but does not explicitly represent token-level o…

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Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs

Adar Avsian, Atahan Dokme, Tony Woo +1

Classical spoken dialogue systems often separated dialogue management from response realization: a policy selected the next dialogue action, and a generation component expressed th…

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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…

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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…