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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Steering LLMs for Culturally Localized Generation

Simran Khanuja, Hongbin Liu, Shujian Zhang +4

LLMs are deployed globally, yet produce responses biased towards cultures with abundant training data. Existing cultural localization approaches such as prompting or post-training…

cs.CL2025

MUSIC: MUlti-Step Instruction Contrast for Multi-Turn Reward Models

Wenzhe Li, Shujian Zhang, Wenxuan Zhou +5

Evaluating the quality of multi-turn conversations is crucial for developing capable Large Language Models (LLMs), yet remains a significant challenge, often requiring costly human…

cs.CL2025

Fantastic Reasoning Behaviors and Where to Find Them: Unsupervised Discovery of the Reasoning Process

Zhenyu Zhang, Shujian Zhang, John Lambert +6

Despite the growing reasoning capabilities of recent large language models (LLMs), their internal mechanisms during the reasoning process remain underexplored. Prior approaches oft…

cs.CL2025

Eliciting Behaviors in Multi-Turn Conversations

Jing Huang, Shujian Zhang, Lun Wang +3

Identifying specific and often complex behaviors from large language models (LLMs) in conversational settings is crucial for their evaluation. Recent work proposes novel techniques…

cs.CR2025

Attacker's Noise Can Manipulate Your Audio-based LLM in the Real World

Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Soheil Feizi, Rajiv Mathews +1

This paper investigates the real-world vulnerabilities of audio-based large language models (ALLMs), such as Qwen2-Audio. We first demonstrate that an adversary can craft stealthy…