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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Beneath the Surface: Investigating LLMs' Capabilities for Communicating with Subtext

Kabir Ahuja, Yuxuan Li, Andrew Kyle Lampinen

Human communication is fundamentally creative, and often makes use of subtext -- implied meaning that goes beyond the literal content of the text. Here, we systematically study whe…

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

BLAB: Brutally Long Audio Bench

Orevaoghene Ahia, Martijn Bartelds, Kabir Ahuja +13

Developing large audio language models (LMs) capable of understanding diverse spoken interactions is essential for accommodating the multimodal nature of human communication and ca…

cs.CL2025

Learning Syntax Without Planting Trees: Understanding Hierarchical Generalization in Transformers

Kabir Ahuja, Vidhisha Balachandran, Madhur Panwar +4

Transformers trained on natural language data have been shown to learn its hierarchical structure and generalize to sentences with unseen syntactic structures without explicitly en…

cs.CL2025

Bridging the Language Gap: Dynamic Learning Strategies for Improving Multilingual Performance in LLMs

Somnath Kumar, Vaibhav Balloli, Mercy Ranjit +5

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized various domains but still struggle with non-Latin scripts and low-resource languages. This paper addresses the critical challenge o…