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20242026
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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Trust Functions: Near-Lossless Weak-to-Strong Generalization by Learning When to Trust the Weak Teacher

Arda Uzunoglu, Alvin Zhang, Daniel Khashabi

Weak-to-strong generalization studies how to improve a strong student using supervision from a weaker teacher when reliable labels are scarce. We view this primarily as a data sele…

cs.CL2026

Instructional Text Across Disciplines: A Survey of Representations, Downstream Tasks, and Open Challenges Toward Capable AI Agents

Abdulfattah Safa, Tamta Kapanadze, Arda Uzunoğlu +1

Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated promising capabilities in following simple instructions through instruction tuning. However, real-world tasks often invol…

cs.CV2025

World-in-World: World Models in a Closed-Loop World

Jiahan Zhang, Muqing Jiang, Nanru Dai +14

Generative world models (WMs) can now simulate worlds with striking visual realism, which naturally raises the question of whether they can endow embodied agents with predictive pe…

cs.CL2025

The Flaw of Averages: Quantifying Uniformity of Performance on Benchmarks

Arda Uzunoglu, Tianjian Li, Daniel Khashabi

Benchmarks shape scientific conclusions about model capabilities and steer model development. This creates a feedback loop: stronger benchmarks drive better models, and better mode…

cs.CL2025

WorldAPIs: The World Is Worth How Many APIs? A Thought Experiment

Jiefu Ou, Arda Uzunoglu, Benjamin Van Durme +1

AI systems make decisions in physical environments through primitive actions or affordances that are accessed via API calls. While deploying AI agents in the real world involves nu…

cs.CL2024

PARADISE: Evaluating Implicit Planning Skills of Language Models with Procedural Warnings and Tips Dataset

Arda Uzunoglu, Abdalfatah Rashid Safa, Gözde Gül Şahin

Recently, there has been growing interest within the community regarding whether large language models are capable of planning or executing plans. However, most prior studies use L…