4 papers
The Gray Area: Characterizing Moderator Disagreement on Reddit
Shayan Alipour, Shruti Phadke, Seyed Shahabeddin Mousavi +3
Volunteer moderators play a crucial role in sustaining online dialogue, but they often disagree about what should or should not be allowed. In this paper, we study the complexity o…
Evaluating Speech-to-Text x LLM x Text-to-Speech Combinations for AI Interview Systems
Rumi Allbert, Nima Yazdani, Ali Ansari +3
Voice-based conversational AI systems increasingly rely on cascaded architectures that combine speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) componen…
LORE: Lagrangian-Optimized Robust Embeddings for Visual Encoders
Borna Khodabandeh, Amirabbas Afzali, Amirhossein Afsharrad +4
Visual encoders have become fundamental components in modern computer vision pipelines. However, ensuring robustness against adversarial perturbations remains a critical challenge.…
One Goal, Many Challenges: Robust Preference Optimization Amid Content-Aware and Multi-Source Noise
Amirabbas Afzali, Amirhossein Afsharrad, Seyed Shahabeddin Mousavi +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in generating human-like responses, largely due to preference alignment techniques. However, these methods often assume u…