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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Emotion Entanglement and Bayesian Inference for Multi-Dimensional Emotion Understanding

Hemanth Kotaprolu, Kishan Maharaj, Raey Zhao +2

Understanding emotions in natural language is inherently a multi-dimensional reasoning problem, where multiple affective signals interact through context, interpersonal relations,…

cs.SE2026

Beyond the Autoregressive Horizon: A Comprehensive Survey of Diffusion Models, World Modelling, and State Space Models for Code

Kishan Maharaj, Ashita Saxena, Srikanth Tamilselvam

Autoregressive (AR) language models have driven significant progress in automated software engineering, enabling powerful code generation and assistance systems. However, the next-…

cs.SE2026

Robustness and Reasoning Fidelity of Large Language Models in Long-Context Code Question Answering

Kishan Maharaj, Nandakishore Menon, Ashita Saxena +1

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly assist software engineering tasks that require reasoning over long code contexts, yet their robustness under varying input conditions rema…

cs.SE2025

ETF: An Entity Tracing Framework for Hallucination Detection in Code Summaries

Kishan Maharaj, Vitobha Munigala, Srikanth G. Tamilselvam +5

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to understand both natural language and code, driving their use in tasks like natural…

cs.CL2025

Understand the Implication: Learning to Think for Pragmatic Understanding

Settaluri Lakshmi Sravanthi, Kishan Maharaj, Sravani Gunnu +2

Pragmatics, the ability to infer meaning beyond literal interpretation, is crucial for social cognition and communication. While LLMs have been benchmarked for their pragmatic unde…