collaborators

8 papers

cs.CL2026

TextNCA: Neural Cellular Automata for Language Modeling via Hierarchical Local Attention

Avni Mittal, Avinash Anand, Ashutosh Kumar +7

Can a strictly local, iterated, weight-shared computation primitive support language modelling, and which of those three properties actually drives the model's behaviour? We define…

cs.CL2026

Triadic Werewolf: A Jester Role for Multi-Hop Theory of Mind in LLMs

Avni Mittal

Theory-of-mind evaluations of large language models typically use dyadic social-deduction games, where every observable cue points to a single hidden side, so a model with strong l…

cs.CL2026

Did You Forget What I Asked? Prospective Memory Failures in Large Language Models

Avni Mittal

Large language models often fail to satisfy formatting instructions when they must simultaneously perform demanding tasks. We study this behaviour through a prospective memory insp…

cs.CL2026

C2-Faith: Benchmarking LLM Judges for Causal and Coverage Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Avni Mittal, Rauno Arike

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as judges of chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably assess process faithfulness rathe…

cs.CL2026

The Periodic Table of LLM Reasoning: A Structured Survey of Reasoning Paradigms, Methods, and Failure Modes

Avinash Anand, Mahisha Ramesh, Avni Mittal +8

Reasoning has become central to how Large Language Models (LLMs) are evaluated and interpreted, spanning Chain-of-Thought (CoT), mathematical problem-solving, multi-hop question an…

cs.CL2026

Do LLMs Follow Their Own Rules? A Reflexive Audit of Self-Stated Safety Policies

Avni Mittal

LLMs internalize safety policies through RLHF, yet these policies are never formally specified and remain difficult to inspect. Existing benchmarks evaluate models against external…