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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Stopping Computation for Converged Tokens in Masked Diffusion-LM Decoding

Daisuke Oba, Danushka Bollegala, Masahiro Kaneko +1

Masked Diffusion Language Models generate sequences via iterative sampling that progressively unmasks tokens. However, they still recompute the attention and feed-forward blocks fo…

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Synthetic Data Generation for Training Diversified Commonsense Reasoning Models

Tianhui Zhang, Bei Peng, Danushka Bollegala

Conversational agents are required to respond to their users not only with high quality (i.e. commonsense bearing) responses, but also considering multiple plausible alternative sc…

cs.CL2026

Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models

Taisei Yamamoto, Ryoma Kumon, Danushka Bollegala +1

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed worldwide, ensuring their fair and comprehensive cultural understanding is important. However, LLMs exhibit cultural bias…

cs.CL2026

Map of Encoders -- Mapping Sentence Encoders using Quantum Relative Entropy

Gaifan Zhang, Danushka Bollegala

We propose a method to compare and visualise sentence encoders at scale by creating a map of encoders where each sentence encoder is represented in relation to the other sentence e…

cs.CL2026

CASE -- Condition-Aware Sentence Embeddings for Conditional Semantic Textual Similarity Measurement

Gaifan Zhang, Yi Zhou, Danushka Bollegala

The meaning conveyed by a sentence often depends on the context in which it appears. Despite the progress of sentence embedding methods, it remains unclear as how to best modify a…

cs.CL2026

Evaluating the Effect of Retrieval Augmentation on Social Biases

Tianhui Zhang, Yi Zhou, Danushka Bollegala

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has gained popularity as a method for conveniently incorporating novel facts that were not seen during the pre-training stage in Large Language…