activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.CL2026

Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors

Shuhaib Mehri, Philippe Laban, Sumuk Shashidhar +4

As user simulators are increasingly used for interactive training and evaluation of AI assistants, it is essential that they represent the diverse behaviors of real users. While ex…

cs.AI2026

Combinatorial Creativity: A New Frontier in Generalization Abilities

Samuel Schapiro, Sumuk Shashidhar, Alexi Gladstone +4

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, are increasingly employed for creative tasks like scientific idea generation, constituting a f…

cs.CL2025

AURA: A Diagnostic Framework for Tracking User Satisfaction of Interactive Planning Agents

Takyoung Kim, Janvijay Singh, Shuhaib Mehri +6

The growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in instruction-following and context-understanding lead to the era of agents with numerous applications. Among these, task…

cs.CL2025

Question Generation for Assessing Early Literacy Reading Comprehension

Xiaocheng Yang, Sumuk Shashidhar, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Assessment of reading comprehension through content-based interactions plays an important role in the reading acquisition process. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for ge…

cs.AI2025

Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation

Aishik Sanyal, Samuel Schapiro, Sumuk Shashidhar +3

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown promising abilities to generate novel research ideas in science, a direction which coincides with many foundational principles in…

cs.CL2025

YourBench: Easy Custom Evaluation Sets for Everyone

Sumuk Shashidhar, Clémentine Fourrier, Alina Lozovskia +3

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) effectively remains a critical bottleneck, as traditional static benchmarks suffer from saturation and contamination, while human evaluation…