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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.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…

cs.CL2024

Instruct, Not Assist: LLM-based Multi-Turn Planning and Hierarchical Questioning for Socratic Code Debugging

Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani-Tur +1

Socratic questioning is an effective teaching strategy, encouraging critical thinking and problem-solving. The conversational capabilities of large language models (LLMs) show grea…