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Flipping the Dialogue: Training and Evaluating User Language Models

Tarek Naous, Philippe Laban, Wei Xu +1

Conversations with LMs involve two participants: a human user leading the conversation, and an LM assistant responding to the user's request. To satisfy this specific role, LMs are…

cs.CL2025

DeepTRACE: Auditing Deep Research AI Systems for Tracking Reliability Across Citations and Evidence

Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Philippe Laban, Yilun Zhou +3

Generative search engines and deep research LLM agents promise trustworthy, source-grounded synthesis, yet users regularly encounter overconfidence, weak sourcing, and confusing ci…

cs.CL2025

AI-Slop to AI-Polish? Aligning Language Models through Edit-Based Writing Rewards and Test-time Computation

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu

AI-generated text is proliferating across domains, from creative writing and journalism to marketing content and scientific articles. Models can follow user-provided instructions t…

cs.CL2025

SummExecEdit: A Factual Consistency Benchmark in Summarization with Executable Edits

Onkar Thorat, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu

Detecting factual inconsistencies in summarization is critical, yet existing benchmarks lack the necessary challenge and interpretability for robust evaluation. In this paper, we i…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation

Philippe Laban, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yingbo Zhou +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also t…

cs.CL2025

BingoGuard: LLM Content Moderation Tools with Risk Levels

Fan Yin, Philippe Laban, Xiangyu Peng +7

Malicious content generated by large language models (LLMs) can pose varying degrees of harm. Although existing LLM-based moderators can detect harmful content, they struggle to as…