3 papers
cs.CL2026
LIME-LLM: Probing Models with Fluent Counterfactuals, Not Broken Text
George Mihaila, Suleyman Olcay Polat, Poli Nemkova +3
Local explanation methods such as LIME (Ribeiro et al., 2016) remain fundamental to trustworthy AI, yet their application to NLP is limited by a reliance on random token masking. T…
cs.LG2025
Synthetic Adaptive Guided Embeddings (SAGE): A Novel Knowledge Distillation Method
Suleyman Olcay Polat, Poli A. Nemkova, Mark V. Albert
Model distillation enables the transfer of knowledge from large-scale models to compact student models, facilitating deployment in resource-constrained environments. However, conve…
cs.CY2025
Towards Automated Situation Awareness: A RAG-Based Framework for Peacebuilding Reports
Poli A. Nemkova, Suleyman O. Polat, Rafid I. Jahan +4
Timely and accurate situation awareness is vital for decision-making in humanitarian response, conflict monitoring, and early warning and early action. However, the manual analysis…