25 papers
Food4All: An Agentic Framework and Benchmark for Food Resource Navigation with Adaptive User Understanding
Yiyang Li, Weixiang Sun, Tianyi Ma +3
Food assistance referral requires conversational agents to translate underspecified, often noisy help-seeking dialogues into locally valid resource recommendations. We present Food…
Mitigating Misalignment Contagion by Steering with Implicit Traits
Maria Chang, Ronny Luss, Miao Liu +3
Language models (LMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes, multi-agent settings, where following instructions and maintaining value alignment are critical. Most alignment research…
Patching LLM Like Software: A Lightweight Method for Improving Safety Policy in Large Language Models
Huzaifa Arif, Keerthiram Murugesan, Ching-Yun Ko +3
We propose patching for large language models (LLMs) like software versions, a lightweight and modular approach for addressing safety vulnerabilities. While vendors release improve…
Context Attribution with Multi-Armed Bandit Optimization
Deng Pan, Keerthiram Murugesan, Ting Hua +2
Understanding which parts of the retrieved context contribute to a large language model's generated answer is essential for building interpretable and trustworthy retrieval-augment…
OjaKV: Context-Aware Online Low-Rank KV Cache Compression
Yuxuan Zhu, David H. Yang, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri +3
The expanding long-context capabilities of large language models are constrained by a significant memory bottleneck: the key-value (KV) cache required for autoregressive generation…
ZoomR: Memory Efficient Reasoning through Multi-Granularity Key Value Retrieval
David H. Yang, Yuxuan Zhu, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri +4
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great performance on complex reasoning tasks but often require generating long intermediate thoughts before reaching a final answer. During…