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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian Languages

Tarek Naous, Anagha Savit, Carlos Rafael Catalan +17

As Large Language Models (LLMs) develop stronger multilingual capabilities, their sensitivity to culturally diverse entities becomes increasingly important. Prior work by Naous et…

cs.CL2026

Belief-Sim: Towards Belief-Driven Simulation of Demographic Misinformation Susceptibility

Angana Borah, Zohaib Khan, Rada Mihalcea +1

Misinformation is a growing societal threat, and susceptibility to misinformative claims varies across demographic groups due to differences in underlying beliefs. As Large Languag…

cs.LG2026

Countdown-Code: A Testbed for Studying The Emergence and Generalization of Reward Hacking in RLVR

Muhammad Khalifa, Zohaib Khan, Omer Tafveez +2

Reward hacking is a form of misalignment in which models overoptimize proxy rewards without genuinely solving the underlying task. Precisely measuring reward hacking occurrence rem…

cs.CL2026

To Lie or Not to Lie? Investigating The Biased Spread of Global Lies by LLMs

Zohaib Khan, Mustafa Dogan, Ifeoma Okoh +6

Misinformation is on the rise, and the strong writing capabilities of LLMs lower the barrier for malicious actors to produce and disseminate false information. We study how LLMs be…

cs.LG2026

Plasticity vs. Rigidity: The Impact of Low-Rank Adapters on Reasoning on a Micro-Budget

Zohaib Khan, Omer Tafveez, Zoha Hayat Bhatti

Recent advances in mathematical reasoning typically rely on massive scale, yet the question remains: can strong reasoning capabilities be induced in small language models ($\leq1.5…

cs.SI2025

Scaling Truth: The Confidence Paradox in AI Fact-Checking

Ihsan A. Qazi, Zohaib Khan, Abdullah Ghani +7

The rise of misinformation underscores the need for scalable and reliable fact-checking solutions. Large language models (LLMs) hold promise in automating fact verification, yet th…