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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CL2026

The Surprising Effectiveness of Membership Inference with Simple N-Gram Coverage

Skyler Hallinan, Jaehun Jung, Melanie Sclar +7

Membership inference attacks serves as useful tool for fair use of language models, such as detecting potential copyright infringement and auditing data leakage. However, many curr…

cs.CL2025

Finding Flawed Fictions: Evaluating Complex Reasoning in Language Models via Plot Hole Detection

Kabir Ahuja, Melanie Sclar, Yulia Tsvetkov

Stories are a fundamental aspect of human experience. Engaging deeply with stories and spotting plot holes -- inconsistencies in a storyline that break the internal logic or rules…

cs.AI2025

Hypothesis-Driven Theory-of-Mind Reasoning for Large Language Models

Hyunwoo Kim, Melanie Sclar, Tan Zhi-Xuan +5

Existing LLM reasoning methods have shown impressive capabilities across various tasks, such as solving math and coding problems. However, applying these methods to scenarios witho…

cs.CL2025

AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text

Ximing Lu, Melanie Sclar, Skyler Hallinan +8

Creativity has long been considered one of the most difficult aspect of human intelligence for AI to mimic. However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, has rai…

cs.LG2024

Explore Theory of Mind: Program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning

Melanie Sclar, Jane Yu, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi +4

Do large language models (LLMs) have theory of mind? A plethora of papers and benchmarks have been introduced to evaluate if current models have been able to develop this key abili…