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20242026
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6 papers

cs.CL2026

CRAFT: Cost-aware Refinement And Front-aware Tuning of Prompts

Shanu Kumar, Shubhanshu Khandelwal, Akhila Yesantarao Venkata +3

Prompts tuned for accuracy often grow long, raising inference cost on every model call. The best accuracy-cost trade-off depends on the task and the budget, so prompt optimization…

cs.CL2025

Towards Safer Pretraining: Analyzing and Filtering Harmful Content in Webscale datasets for Responsible LLMs

Sai Krishna Mendu, Harish Yenala, Aditi Gulati +2

Large language models (LLMs) have become integral to various real-world applications, leveraging massive, web-sourced datasets like Common Crawl, C4, and FineWeb for pretraining. W…

cs.CL2025

SCULPT: Systematic Tuning of Long Prompts

Shanu Kumar, Akhila Yesantarao Venkata, Shubhanshu Khandelwal +3

Prompt optimization is essential for effective utilization of large language models (LLMs) across diverse tasks. While existing optimization methods are effective in optimizing sho…

cs.CL2025

READ: Reinforcement-based Adversarial Learning for Text Classification with Limited Labeled Data

Rohit Sharma, Shanu Kumar, Avinash Kumar

Pre-trained transformer models such as BERT have shown massive gains across many text classification tasks. However, these models usually need enormous labeled data to achieve impr…

cs.CL2024

Socio-Culturally Aware Evaluation Framework for LLM-Based Content Moderation

Shanu Kumar, Gauri Kholkar, Saish Mendke +3

With the growth of social media and large language models, content moderation has become crucial. Many existing datasets lack adequate representation of different groups, resulting…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing Zero-shot Chain of Thought Prompting via Uncertainty-Guided Strategy Selection

Shanu Kumar, Saish Mendke, Karody Lubna Abdul Rahman +3

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting has significantly enhanced the capability of large language models (LLMs) by structuring their reasoning processes. However, existing methods face…