5 papers
EffGen: Enabling Small Language Models as Capable Autonomous Agents
Gaurav Srivastava, Aafiya Hussain, Chi Wang +2
Most existing language model agentic systems today are built and optimized for large language models (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini) via API calls; while powerful, this approach faces…
Do LLMs Overthink Basic Math Reasoning? Benchmarking the Accuracy-Efficiency Tradeoff in Language Models
Gaurav Srivastava, Aafiya Hussain, Sriram Srinivasan +1
Large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive performance on complex mathematical benchmarks yet sometimes fail on basic math reasoning while generating unnecessarily verbose res…
BeyondBench: Contamination-Resistant Evaluation of Reasoning in Language Models
Gaurav Srivastava, Aafiya Hussain, Zhenyu Bi +5
Evaluating language models fairly is increasingly difficult as static benchmarks risk contamination by training data, obscuring whether models truly reason or recall. We introduce…
Designing Multi-Robot Ground Video Sensemaking with Public Safety Professionals
Puqi Zhou, Ali Asgarov, Aafiya Hussain +9
Videos from fleets of ground robots can advance public safety by providing scalable situational awareness and reducing professionals' burden. Yet little is known about how to desig…
SoundBreak: A Systematic Study of Audio-Only Adversarial Attacks on Trimodal Models
Aafiya Hussain, Gaurav Srivastava, Alvi Ishmam +2
Multimodal foundation models that integrate audio, vision, and language achieve strong performance on reasoning and generation tasks, yet their robustness to adversarial manipulati…