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5 papers

cs.AI2026

FIGS: Evaluating Multi-Turn Sycophancy Without Penalizing Empathy

Sidharth Pulipaka, Ruta Binkyte, Ivaxi Sheth +1

Large language models frequently fail to balance staying truthful with being supportive. They often exhibit sycophancy in responses to users, agreeing with false claims, offering u…

cs.AI2026

Share-Borne AI Virus: Memory-Hopping Attacks Across LLM Agents

Sidharth Pulipaka, Ansh Sharma, Stanislau Hlebik +4

Large language models are increasingly deployed as stateful assistants that retain information across interactions and use tools to read, modify, and create persistent artifacts. A…

cs.CR2026

Hidden in Memory: Sleeper Memory Poisoning in LLM Agents

Sidharth Pulipaka, Stanislau Hlebik, Leonidas Raghav +4

Large language models are increasingly augmented with persistent memory, allowing assistants to store user-specific information across sessions for personalization and continuity.…

cs.AI2026

PersistBench: When Should Long-Term Memories Be Forgotten by LLMs?

Sidharth Pulipaka, Oliver Chen, Manas Sharma +3

Conversational assistants are increasingly integrating long-term memory with large language models (LLMs). This persistence of memories, e.g., the user is vegetarian, can enhance p…

cs.CL2025

Mark My Words: A Robust Multilingual Model for Punctuation in Text and Speech Transcripts

Sidharth Pulipaka, Sparsh Jain, Ashwin Sankar +1

Punctuation plays a vital role in structuring meaning, yet current models often struggle to restore it accurately in transcripts of spontaneous speech, especially in the presence o…