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7 papers

cs.HC2026

From Prediction to Intervention: Personalized Meal-Level Glucose Regulation via an LLM Agent

Mingyu Huang, Weiqing Min, Ying Jin +2

Personalized glucose regulation remains a central yet unresolved challenge in precision nutrition, as postprandial glucose response varies substantially across individuals. Existin…

cs.CL2026

Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages

Saeed Almheiri, Bilal Elbouardi, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida +16

Idiomatic expressions pose a major challenge for multilingual NLP because their meanings shift between figurative and literal usage, often requiring context for accurate interpreta…

cs.CL2026

Sycophancy Hides Linearly in the Attention Heads

Rifo Genadi, Munachiso Nwadike, Nurdaulet Mukhituly +3

We find that correct-to-incorrect sycophancy signals are most linearly separable within multi-head attention activations. Motivated by the linear representation hypothesis, we trai…

eess.AS2025

SPIRIT: Patching Speech Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks

Amirbek Djanibekov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Kentaro Inui +2

Speech Language Models (SLMs) enable natural interactions via spoken instructions, which more effectively capture user intent by detecting nuances in speech. The richer speech sign…

cs.CL2025

Sherkala-Chat: Building a State-of-the-Art LLM for Kazakh in a Moderately Resourced Setting

Fajri Koto, Rituraj Joshi, Nurdaulet Mukhituly +31

Llama-3.1-Sherkala-8B-Chat, or Sherkala-Chat (8B) for short, is a state-of-the-art instruction-tuned open generative large language model (LLM) designed for Kazakh. Sherkala-Chat (…

cs.CL2025

KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan

Mukhammed Togmanov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Diana Turmakhan +11

Despite having a population of twenty million, Kazakhstan's culture and language remain underrepresented in the field of natural language processing. Although large language models…