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cs.AI2026

Emergent Strategic Reasoning Risks in AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Evaluation Framework

Tharindu Kumarage, Lisa Bauer, Yao Ma +7

As reasoning capacity and deployment scope grow in tandem, large language models (LLMs) gain the capacity to engage in behaviors that serve their own objectives, a class of risks w…

cs.AI2026

PReMISE: Policy Rubrics as Measurement Specifications for LLM Judges

Swastik Roy, Rajkumar Pujari, Tharindu Kumarage +5

LLM judges are increasingly used to evaluate open-ended responses, but their scores depend strongly on the rubrics that condition them. A vague rubric asking for a response to be `…

cs.AI2026

Controlling the Risk of Corrupted Contexts for Language Models via Early-Exiting

Andrea Wynn, Metod Jazbec, Charith Peris +4

Large language models (LLMs) can be influenced by harmful or irrelevant context, which can significantly harm model performance on downstream tasks. This motivates principled desig…

cs.AI2026

ARES: Adaptive Red-Teaming and End-to-End Repair of Policy-Reward System

Jiacheng Liang, Yao Ma, Tharindu Kumarage +5

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is central to aligning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it introduces a critical vulnerability: an imperfect Reward Model (RM) ca…

cs.AI2025

Towards Safety Reasoning in LLMs: AI-agentic Deliberation for Policy-embedded CoT Data Creation

Tharindu Kumarage, Ninareh Mehrabi, Anil Ramakrishna +6

Safety reasoning is a recent paradigm where LLMs reason over safety policies before generating responses, thereby mitigating limitations in existing safety measures such as over-re…

cs.AI2025

The Amazon Nova Family of Models: Technical Report and Model Card

Amazon AGI, Aaron Langford, Aayush Shah +783

We present Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance. Amazon Nova Pro is a highl…