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cs.CL2026

Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-Evolution

Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu +1

Co-evolutionary self-play, where one language model generates problems and another solves them, promises curriculum learning without human supervision. The promise breaks down earl…

cs.CL2025

PHANTOM RECALL: When Familiar Puzzles Fool Smart Models

Souradeep Mukhopadhyay, Rishabh Baral, Nimeesh Mahajan +5

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Gemini, and Claude often appear adept at solving classic logic puzzles--but how much genuine reasoning underlies their answers? Recent evi…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA

Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Qin Liu +8

Alignment of large language models (LLMs) with principles like helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness typically relies on scalar rewards that obscure which objectives drive the tra…

cs.CL2024

ToW: Thoughts of Words Improve Reasoning in Large Language Models

Zhikun Xu, Ming Shen, Jacob Dineen +6

We introduce thoughts of words (ToW), a novel training-time data-augmentation method for next-word prediction. ToW views next-word prediction as a core reasoning task and injects f…

cs.CL2024

Step-by-Step Reasoning to Solve Grid Puzzles: Where do LLMs Falter?

Nemika Tyagi, Mihir Parmar, Mohith Kulkarni +5

Solving grid puzzles involves a significant amount of logical reasoning. Hence, it is a good domain to evaluate the reasoning capability of a model which can then guide us to impro…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Chaos with Keywords: Exposing Large Language Models Sycophantic Hallucination to Misleading Keywords and Evaluating Defense Strategies

Aswin RRV, Nemika Tyagi, Md Nayem Uddin +2

This study explores the sycophantic tendencies of Large Language Models (LLMs), where these models tend to provide answers that match what users want to hear, even if they are not…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Triple Preference Optimization: Achieving Better Alignment using a Single Step Optimization

Amir Saeidi, Shivanshu Verma, Aswin RRV +2

Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) enhances the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, its limitations have led to the development of Direct Preference…