4 papers
Structural Abstraction as an Inductive Bias for Non-Stationary Language Model Training
Elnaz Rahmati, Nona Ghazizadeh, Zhivar Sourati +2
A foundational principle in cognitive science holds that intelligent agents do not learn by storing experiences as isolated instances, but by forming abstract schemas that capture…
LAD-RAG: Layout-aware Dynamic RAG for Visually-Rich Document Understanding
Zhivar Sourati, Zheng Wang, Marianne Menglin Liu +8
Question answering over visually rich documents (VRDs) requires reasoning not only over isolated content but also over documents' structural organization and cross-page dependencie…
The Subjectivity of Respect in Police Traffic Stops: Modeling Community Perspectives in Body-Worn Camera Footage
Preni Golazizian, Elnaz Rahmati, Jackson Trager +17
Traffic stops are among the most frequent police-civilian interactions, and body-worn cameras (BWCs) provide a unique record of how these encounters unfold. Respect is a central di…
Theory Trace Card: Theory-Driven Socio-Cognitive Evaluation of LLMs
Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi, Suhaib Abdurahman, Zhivar Sourati +2
Socio-cognitive benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) often fail to predict real-world behavior, even when models achieve high benchmark scores. Prior work has attributed thi…