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cs.CL2026
Are You Sure You're Sure? Two Confounds in a Sycophancy Benchmark
Atharv Gupta, Akshat Jindal, Lavanya Nigam +1
Sycophancy is a language model's tendency to cave when a user pushes back, abandoning a correct answer for the user's. Several benchmarks now measure it by scripting an objection a…
cs.CL2026
Lost in Interpolation: Why Predictive Feedback Fails in Diffusion Language Models
Lavanya Nigam, Ishaan Bansal, Aryan Sood +2
Soft-masking accelerates the convergence of Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs). Existing formulations build this blend with linear interpolation (LERP) in the raw embedding s…