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most citedNEO-BENCH: Evaluating Robustness of Large Language Models with Neologisms

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14 papers

cs.CL2026

Synthetic Worlds for Temporal Evaluation and Knowledge Updating in LLMs

Jonathan Zheng, Zirui Shao, Alan Ritter +1

Large language models (LLMs) rely on static pretraining corpora, causing their knowledge to become outdated over time. Existing approaches for evaluating knowledge edits either suf…

cs.CL2026

Investigating and Alleviating Harm Amplification in LLM Interactions

Ruohao Guo, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Large language models (LLMs) can serve as helpful assistants, yet they can equally function as harm amplifiers that enable malicious users to achieve harmful outcomes beyond their…

cs.CV2026

Synthetic Data Alone is Enough? Rethinking Data Scarcity in Pediatric Rare Disease Recognition

Ganlin Feng, Yuxi Long, Erin Lou +4

Children with rare genetic diseases often exhibit distinctive facial phenotypes, yet developing computer vision systems for early diagnosis remains challenging due to extreme data…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning over Predictive Distributions for LLM Regression

Jungsoo Park, Hyungjoo Chae, Ethan Mendes +4

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as flexible regressors capable of predicting real-valued quantities from heterogeneous inputs. Yet most LLM regression objectives optimize…

cs.CR2026

Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure?

Ruixin Yang, Ethan Mendes, Arthur Wang +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in image geolocation, a capability further sharpened by frontier multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs). This…

cs.HC2026

Supporting Informed Self-Disclosure: Design Recommendations for Presenting AI-Estimates of Privacy Risks to Users

Isadora Krsek, Meryl Ye, Wei Xu +3

People candidly discuss sensitive topics online under the perceived safety of anonymity; yet, for many, this perceived safety is tenuous, as miscalibrated risk perceptions can lead…

cs.CV2026

GeoRC: A Benchmark for Geolocation Reasoning Chains

Mohit Talreja, Joshua Diao, Jim Thannikary James +6

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are good at recognizing the global location of a photograph -- their geolocation prediction accuracy rivals the best human experts. But many VLMs are…

cs.CL2025

Probabilistic Reasoning with LLMs for k-anonymity Estimation

Jonathan Zheng, Sauvik Das, Alan Ritter +1

Probabilistic reasoning is a key aspect of both human and artificial intelligence that allows for handling uncertainty and ambiguity in decision-making. In this paper, we introduce…

cs.CL2025

How to Protect Yourself from 5G Radiation? Investigating LLM Responses to Implicit Misinformation

Ruohao Guo, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in diverse scenarios, the extent to which they could tacitly spread misinformation emerges as a critical safety concern. Current…

cs.CL2024

Granular Privacy Control for Geolocation with Vision Language Models

Ethan Mendes, Yang Chen, James Hays +3

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are rapidly advancing in their capability to answer information-seeking questions. As these models are widely deployed in consumer applications, they…

cs.CL2024

Stanceosaurus 2.0: Classifying Stance Towards Russian and Spanish Misinformation

Anton Lavrouk, Ian Ligon, Tarek Naous +3

The Stanceosaurus corpus (Zheng et al., 2022) was designed to provide high-quality, annotated, 5-way stance data extracted from Twitter, suitable for analyzing cross-cultural and c…

cs.CL2024

Constrained Decoding for Cross-lingual Label Projection

Duong Minh Le, Yang Chen, Alan Ritter +1

Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer utilizing multilingual LLMs has become a popular learning paradigm for low-resource languages with no labeled training data. However, for NLP tasks…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

NEO-BENCH: Evaluating Robustness of Large Language Models with Neologisms

Jonathan Zheng, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) degrades from the temporal drift between data used for model training and newer text seen during inference. One understudied avenue…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Can Language Models be Instructed to Protect Personal Information?

Yang Chen, Ethan Mendes, Sauvik Das +2

Large multimodal language models have proven transformative in numerous applications. However, these models have been shown to memorize and leak pre-training data, raising serious…