SNEAK: Evaluating Strategic Communication and Information Leakage in Large Language Models
Avsian, Adar and Heck, Larry. (2026). "SNEAK: Evaluating Strategic Communication and Information Leakage in Large Language Models." COLM (submitted).
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
Work experience
- Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- GitHub University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
Emotion is Not Just a Label: Latent Emotional Factors in LLM Processing
Reichman, Benjamin and Avsian, Adar and Webster, Samuel and Heck, Larry. (2026). "Emotion is Not Just a Label: Latent Emotional Factors in LLM Processing." TMLR (submitted).
FLEx: Language Modeling with Few-shot Language Explanations
Avsian, Adar and Richardson, Christopher Gordon and Sundar, Anirudh and Heck, Larry. (2026). "FLEx: Language Modeling with Few-shot Language Explanations." ACL (submitted).
Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of LLMs
Reichman, Benjamin and Avsian, Adar and Heck, Larry. (2026). "Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of LLMs." ICLR 2026.
iTBLS: A Dataset of Interactive Conversations Over Tabular Information
Sundar, Anirudh and Richardson, Christopher Gordon and Avsian, Adar and Heck, Larry. (2025). "iTBLS: A Dataset of Interactive Conversations Over Tabular Information." TRL @ ACL 2025.
Emotional RAG LLMs: Reading Comprehension for the Open Internet
Reichman, Benjamin and Avsian, Adar and Talamadupula, Kartik and Jawale, Toshish and Heck, Larry. (2025). "Emotional RAG LLMs: Reading Comprehension for the Open Internet." PragLM @ COLM 2025.
Talks
Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley, CA, USA
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams