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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

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.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

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…

cs.CL2025

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…