3 papers
cs.CL2026
Validation-Gated Causal Interventions for Interpreting High-Stakes Large Language Model Behavior: A Case Study in Suicidality Detection
Nafiz Ahmed, Sarah Sharif, Dingjing Shi +1
Large language models are proposed to flag suicidal content, but representing a concept and acting on it are distinct. A suicidality feature is decodable from 0.5B parameters upwar…
cs.CL2026
Improving Heart-Focused Medical Question Answering in LLMs via Variance-Aware Rubric Rewards with GRPO
Arash Ahmadi, Parisa Masnadi Khiabani, Sarah Sharif +4
Large language models can support medical question answering, but privacy, cost, and reliability still limit their clinical use in focused domains. Can rubric-based reinforcement l…
quant-ph2024
Strategic Data Re-Uploads: A Pathway to Improved Quantum Classification Data Re-Uploading Strategies for Improved Quantum Classifier Performance
S. Aminpour, Y. Banad, S. Sharif
Quantum machine learning (QML) is a promising field that explores the applications of quantum computing to machine learning tasks. A significant hurdle in the advancement of quantu…