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cs.AI2026

How To Train Your World Model: Fine-tuning vs RAG for LM-based World Modeling

Dhananjay Ashok, Shantanu Agarwal, Vivek Datla +2

World models (WMs) simulate the transition dynamics of environments, enabling agents to plan over the consequences of their actions. In text-based environments, fine-tuning a Langu…

cs.CL2026

VerTox: Verifiable Reward-Guided Corpus Poisoning Against Neural Ranking Models

Zhiqi Huang, Vivek Datla, Zhichao Xu +3

Neural ranking models have become core components of modern information retrieval systems and important building blocks of AI systems such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) p…

cs.AI2026

Large Databases Need Small, Open-Weight Language Models

Parker Glenn, Alfy Samuel

Language model systems built around proprietary APIs often operate on a token-based cost model. This becomes prohibitively expensive in the context of large databases, where LM-enh…

cs.CL2026

Sampling More, Getting Less: Calibration is the Diversity Bottleneck in LLMs

Amin Banayeeanzade, Qingchuan Yang, Dhruv Tarsadiya +6

Diversity is essential for language-model applications ranging from creative generation to scientific discovery, yet modern LLMs often collapse into a narrow subset of plausible ou…

cs.CL2026

Alignment-Weighted DPO: A principled reasoning approach to improve safety alignment

Mengxuan Hu, Vivek V. Datla, Anoop Kumar +4

Recent advances in alignment techniques such as Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have impro…

cs.CL2026

EPSVec: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors

Amin Banayeeanzade, Qingchuan Yang, Deqing Fu +6

High-quality data is essential for modern machine learning, yet many valuable corpora are sensitive and cannot be freely shared. Synthetic data offers a practical substitute for do…

cs.CL2026

Lessons from the Field: An Adaptable Lifecycle Approach to Applied Dialogue Summarization

Kushal Chawla, Chenyang Zhu, Pengshan Cai +9

Summarization of multi-party dialogues is a critical capability in industry, enhancing knowledge transfer and operational effectiveness across many domains. However, automatically…