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most citedBeyond Understanding: Evaluating the Pragmatic Gap in LLMs' Cultural Processing of Figurative Language

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cs.LG2026

Pando: Do Interpretability Methods Work When Models Won't Explain Themselves?

Ziqian Zhong, Aashiq Muhamed, Mona T. Diab +2

Mechanistic interpretability is often motivated for alignment auditing, where a model's verbal explanations can be absent, incomplete, or misleading. Yet many evaluations do not co…

cs.LG2026

DSPA: Dynamic SAE Steering for Data-Efficient Preference Alignment

James Wedgwood, Aashiq Muhamed, Mona T. Diab +1

Preference alignment is usually achieved by weight-updating training on preference data, which adds substantial alignment-stage compute and provides limited mechanistic visibility.…

cs.CL20261 cited

Beyond Understanding: Evaluating the Pragmatic Gap in LLMs' Cultural Processing of Figurative Language

Mena Attia, Aashiq Muhamed, Mai Alkhamissi +2

We present a comprehensive evaluation of the ability of large language models (LLMs) to process culturally grounded language, specifically to understand and pragmatically use figur…

cs.CL2025

RefusalBench: Generative Evaluation of Selective Refusal in Grounded Language Models

Aashiq Muhamed, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Markus Dreyer +2

The ability of language models in RAG systems to selectively refuse to answer based on flawed context is critical for safety, yet remains a significant failure point. Our large-sca…

cs.CL2025

CCRS: A Zero-Shot LLM-as-a-Judge Framework for Comprehensive RAG Evaluation

Aashiq Muhamed

RAG systems enhance LLMs by incorporating external knowledge, which is crucial for domains that demand factual accuracy and up-to-date information. However, evaluating the multifac…

cs.LG2025

NeurIPS 2023 Competition: Privacy Preserving Federated Learning Document VQA

Marlon Tobaben, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Rubèn Tito +24

The Privacy Preserving Federated Learning Document VQA (PFL-DocVQA) competition challenged the community to develop provably private and communication-efficient solutions in a fede…