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cs.LG2026

What Accuracy Hides In Learned Transformer Programs

Jonathan Lee, Narmeen Oozeer, Philip Quirke

Transformer Programs (TP) (Friedman et al., 2023) constrain a Transformer's architecture so that its learned computation can be extracted as readable Python code. TP expose learned…

cs.CL2026

Judging by the Cover: Cleaning LLM Truthfulness Benchmarks to Avoid Surface-Level Feature Leakage

Foad Namjoo, Remy Ogasawara, Amirali Abdullah +3

Binary-choice truth benchmarks ask models to choose between a correct and an incorrect answer, but if the two answers differ systematically in surface-level features, models can ex…

cs.AI2026

The Capability Frontier: Benchmarks Miss 82% of Model Performance

Bradley Fowler, Ryan Smith, Daniel Thi Graviet +8

Existing benchmarks typically report accuracy for a single model on a single run. This systematically understates real-world LLM capabilities, particularly under heterogeneous data…

cs.LG2026

Riemannian-Manifold Steering: Geometry-Aware Generative Autoencoders for Label-Free Steering

Narmeen Oozeer, Shivam Raval, Philip Quirke +4

Steering a language model - intervening on its internal activations to change downstream behaviour - has recently expanded beyond linear interpolation to nonlinear methods such as…

cs.CY2026

Make Mechanistic Interpretability Auditable: A Call to Develop Guidelines via Continuous Collaborative Reviewing

Michael Lan, Narmeen Fatimah Oozeer, Chaithanya Bandi +4

While mechanistic interpretability (MI) has produced important insights into neural network internals, the field has yet to establish a standardized system to audit experiments. As…

cs.CV2026

Geometry-Aware CLIP Retrieval via Local Cross-Modal Alignment and Steering

Nirmalendu Prakash, Narmeen Fatimah Oozeer, Xin Su +8

CLIP retrieval is typically framed as a pointwise similarity problem in a shared embedding space. While CLIP achieves strong global cross-modal alignment, many retrieval failures a…

cs.LG2026

Understanding and Mitigating Dataset Corruption in LLM Steering

Cullen Anderson, Narmeen Oozeer, Foad Namjoo +3

Contrastive steering has been shown as a simple and effective method to adjust the generative behavior of LLMs at inference time. It uses examples of prompt responses with and with…

cs.LG2026

DreamReader: An Interpretability Toolkit for Text-to-Image Models

Nirmalendu Prakash, Narmeen Oozeer, Michael Lan +6

Despite the rapid adoption of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, causal and representation-level analysis remains fragmented and largely limited to isolated probing techniques.…

cs.LG2026

Spectral Superposition: A Theory of Feature Geometry

Georgi Ivanov, Narmeen Oozeer, Shivam Raval +3

Neural networks represent more features than they have dimensions via superposition, forcing features to share representational space. Current methods decompose activations into sp…

cs.CL2026

Are LLM Evaluators Really Narcissists? Sanity Checking Self-Preference Evaluations

Dani Roytburg, Matthew Bozoukov, Matthew Nguyen +3

Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) favor their own outputs when acting as judges, undermining the integrity of automated post-training and evaluation workf…