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20242026
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7 papers

cs.CL2026

AcquisitionSynthesis: Targeted Data Generation using Acquisition Functions

Ishika Agarwal, Sofia Stoica, Emre Can Acikgoz +4

Data quality remains a critical bottleneck in developing capable, competitive models. Researchers have explored many ways to generate top quality samples. Some works rely on reject…

cs.CL2026

Language Specific Knowledge: Do Models Know Better in X than in English?

Ishika Agarwal, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Nisval Patel +1

Often, multilingual language models are trained with the objective to map semantically similar content (in different languages) in the same latent space. In this paper, we show a n…

cs.CL2026

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: MTQE Rewards for Idioms Improve General Translation Quality

Ishika Agarwal, Zhenlin He, Dhruva Patil +1

Non-compositional expressions (e.g., idioms, proverbs, and metaphors) pose significant challenges for neural machine translation systems because their meanings cannot be derived fr…

cs.LG2025

Neural Networks for Learnable and Scalable Influence Estimation of Instruction Fine-Tuning Data

Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Influence functions provide crucial insights into model training, but existing methods suffer from large computational costs and limited generalization. Particularly, recent works…

cs.CL2025

Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis

Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Tal August +1

With the exponential growth of research facilitated by modern technology and improved accessibility, scientific discoveries have become increasingly fragmented within and across fi…

cs.CL2025

DELIFT: Data Efficient Language model Instruction Fine Tuning

Ishika Agarwal, Krishnateja Killamsetty, Lucian Popa +1

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is essential for enhancing their performance on specific tasks but is often resource-intensive due to redundant or uninformative data. To a…