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57 papers

cs.CL2026

CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity

Ananya Sahu, Mohit Bansal, Elias Stengel-Eskin

While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively impacting tasks that explicitly…

cs.CL2026

GrAInS: Gradient-based Attribution for Inference-Time Steering of LLMs and VLMs

Duy Nguyen, Archiki Prasad, Elias Stengel-Eskin +1

Inference-time steering methods offer a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) by modifying internal activations at t…

cs.CL2026

Multi-Attribute Steering of Language Models via Targeted Intervention

Duy Nguyen, Archiki Prasad, Elias Stengel-Eskin +1

Inference-time intervention (ITI) has emerged as a promising method for steering large language model (LLM) behavior in a particular direction (e.g., improving helpfulness) by inte…

cs.CV2026

Physics Question Scene Graph: Fine-grained Evaluation of Physical Plausibility in Text-to-Video Generation

Atin Pothiraj, Jaemin Cho, Yue Zhang +2

Video generation models are increasingly capable of producing realistic videos, but they still struggle to generate videos that follow basic physical laws. Compounding this is a la…

cs.CL2026

CalVerT: Augmenting Agents with Calibrated Verifier Telemetry Improves Action and Learning in Knowledge-Intensive Tasks

Ashwin Vinod, Ying Ding, Elias Stengel-Eskin

LLM agents in knowledge intensive question answering take retrieval and reasoning actions with incomplete knowledge about whether their current answer is uncertain, unsupported, or…

cs.CL2026

PragReST: Self-Reinforcing Counterfactual Reasoning for Pragmatic Language Understanding

Jihyung Park, Minchao Huang, Leqi Liu +1

Natural language understanding often depends on meanings that are implied rather than explicitly stated, requiring pragmatic reasoning. Despite strong performance on math and logic…