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20242026
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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Safety Measurements for Fine-tuned LLMs Should be Grounded in Capability

Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Hillary Dawkins, Isar Nejadgholi +1

Adapting foundation large language models to a user's task or preferred style through fine-tuning can result in compromising the model's safety. Previous works examined the effects…

cs.CL2025

Fine-Tuning Lowers Safety and Disrupts Evaluation Consistency

Kathleen C. Fraser, Hillary Dawkins, Isar Nejadgholi +1

Fine-tuning a general-purpose large language model (LLM) for a specific domain or task has become a routine procedure for ordinary users. However, fine-tuning is known to remove th…

cs.CL2025

Gender-Neutral Machine Translation Strategies in Practice

Hillary Dawkins, Isar Nejadgholi, Chi-kiu Lo

Gender-inclusive machine translation (MT) should preserve gender ambiguity in the source to avoid misgendering and representational harms. While gender ambiguity often occurs natur…

cs.CL2025

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text

Hillary Dawkins, Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko

Detecting AI-generated text is a difficult problem to begin with; detecting AI-generated text on social media is made even more difficult due to the short text length and informal,…

cs.CL2025

Detecting AI-Generated Text: Factors Influencing Detectability with Current Methods

Kathleen C. Fraser, Hillary Dawkins, Svetlana Kiritchenko

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced to a point that even humans have difficulty discerning whether a text was generated by another human, or by a computer. However, knowing…

cs.CL2024

WMT24 Test Suite: Gender Resolution in Speaker-Listener Dialogue Roles

Hillary Dawkins, Isar Nejadgholi, Chi-kiu Lo

We assess the difficulty of gender resolution in literary-style dialogue settings and the influence of gender stereotypes. Instances of the test suite contain spoken dialogue inter…