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20242026
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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Efficient Safety Guardrails through Latent Dual-Hypothesis Reasoning with On-Demand Trace Reconstruction

Md Asiful Islam, Fahmida Alam, Mihai Surdeanu

Guardrail approaches that rely on reasoning-based large language models (LLM) improve safety decisions, but come with substantial inference overhead due to the explicit reasoning.…

cs.AI2026

A Dual-Hypothesis Reasoning Framework for LLM Guardrails

Md Asiful Islam, Mihai Surdeanu, Fahmida Alam

We propose ARBITER, a novel LLM guardrail framework that introduces two key ideas: (i) dual-hypothesis reasoning, a reasoning method for LLM guardrails that explicitly considers bo…

cs.CL2026

Bidirectional Small-Granularity Search between Code and Text

Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Enrique Noriega-Atala, Gus Hahn-Powell +2

We introduce the novel task of bidirectional small-granularity search between code and text, where the queries are small snippets of text or code and the results are also small fra…

cs.CL2026

A Lightweight Explainable Guardrail for Prompt Safety

Md Asiful Islam, Mihai Surdeanu

We propose a lightweight explainable guardrail (LEG) method to detect unsafe prompts. LEG uses a multi-task learning architecture to jointly learn a prompt classifier and an explan…

cs.CL2025

Information Extraction from Conversation Transcripts: Neuro-Symbolic vs. LLM

Alice Saebom Kwak, Maria Alexeeva, Gus Hahn-Powell +5

The current trend in information extraction (IE) is to rely extensively on large language models, effectively discarding decades of experience in building symbolic or statistical I…

cs.CL2024

When and Where Did it Happen? An Encoder-Decoder Model to Identify Scenario Context

Enrique Noriega-Atala, Robert Vacareanu, Salena Torres Ashton +3

We introduce a neural architecture finetuned for the task of scenario context generation: The relevant location and time of an event or entity mentioned in text. Contextualizing in…