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6 papers

cs.CL2025

Reasoning Isn't Enough: Examining Truth-Bias and Sycophancy in LLMs

Emilio Barkett, Olivia Long, Madhavendra Thakur

Despite their widespread use in fact-checking, moderation, and high-stakes decision-making, large language models (LLMs) remain poorly understood as judges of truth. This study pre…

cs.AI2025

Governing Automated Strategic Intelligence

Nicholas Kruus, Madhavendra Thakur, Adam Khoja +24

Military and economic strategic competitiveness between nation-states will increasingly be defined by the capability and cost of their frontier artificial intelligence models. Amon…

cs.CL2025

Culturally-Grounded Chain-of-Thought (CG-CoT):Enhancing LLM Performance on Culturally-Specific Tasks in Low-Resource Languages

Madhavendra Thakur

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with culturally-specific reasoning tasks, particularly in low-resource languages, hindering their global applicability. Addressing this gap is…

cs.CY2025

Opportunities and Challenges of Frontier Data Governance With Synthetic Data

Madhavendra Thakur, Jason Hausenloy

Synthetic data, or data generated by machine learning models, is increasingly emerging as a solution to the data access problem. However, its use introduces significant governance…

cs.CL2025

Towards Neural No-Resource Language Translation: A Comparative Evaluation of Approaches

Madhavendra Thakur

No-resource languages - those with minimal or no digital representation - pose unique challenges for machine translation (MT). Unlike low-resource languages, which rely on limited…

cs.AI2025

Towards Data Governance of Frontier AI Models

Jason Hausenloy, Duncan McClements, Madhavendra Thakur

Data is essential to train and fine-tune today's frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models and to develop future ones. To date, academic, legal, and regulatory work has primaril…