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6 papers

cs.AI2026

When the Chain of Thought Knows Better: Failure Modes in Multi-Turn Reasoning Models

Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu, Nils Lukas, Samuele Poppi

Failures in multi-turn reasoning models are largely invisible to terminal-score evaluation. A model can lock onto an unsafe stance early in a long dialogue, yet its final-turn refu…

cs.CL2026

HateMirage: An Explainable Multi-Dimensional Dataset for Decoding Faux Hate and Subtle Online Abuse

Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu, Shankar Biradar, Sunil Saumya +1

Subtle and indirect hate speech remains an underexplored challenge in online safety research, particularly when harmful intent is embedded within misleading or manipulative narrati…

cs.CL2026

X-MuTeST: A Multilingual Benchmark for Explainable Hate Speech Detection and A Novel LLM-consulted Explanation Framework

Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu, Shashivardhan Reddy Koppula +3

Hate speech detection on social media faces challenges in both accuracy and explainability, especially for underexplored Indic languages. We propose a novel explainability-guided t…

cs.CV2025

D-HUMOR: Dark Humor Understanding via Multimodal Open-ended Reasoning -- A Benchmark Dataset and Method

Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu, Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Shahid Shafi Dar +3

Dark humor in online memes poses unique challenges due to its reliance on implicit, sensitive, and culturally contextual cues. To address the lack of resources and methods for dete…

cs.CL2025

EthicsMH: A Pilot Benchmark for Ethical Reasoning in Mental Health AI

Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in mental health and other sensitive domains raises urgent questions about ethical reasoning, fairness, and responsible alignment. Ye…

cs.CL2025

Deceptive Humor: A Synthetic Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Bridging Fabricated Claims with Humorous Content

Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu, Shankar Biradar, Sunil Saumya

In the evolving landscape of online discourse, misinformation increasingly adopts humorous tones to evade detection and gain traction. This work introduces Deceptive Humor as a nov…