Publications

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Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs

AAAI 2026 (submitted)

Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs

Recommended citation: Avsian, Adar and Dokme, Atahan and Woo, Tony and Heck, Larry. (2026). "Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs." COLM (submitted).
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SNEAK: Evaluating Strategic Communication and Information Leakage in Large Language Models

COLM 2026

SNEAK introduces a benchmark for evaluating strategic communication and information leakage in language models.

Recommended citation: Avsian, Adar and Heck, Larry. (2026). "SNEAK: Evaluating Strategic Communication and Information Leakage in Large Language Models." COLM (submitted).
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Emotion is Not Just a Label: Latent Emotional Factors in LLM Processing

TMLR 2026 (Submitted)

This work studies latent emotional factors shaping LLM behavior beyond labels.

Recommended citation: 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).
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FLEx: Language Modeling with Few-shot Language Explanations

AAAI 2026 (Submitted)

FLEx improves language modeling via few-shot natural language explanations.

Recommended citation: Avsian, Adar and Richardson, Christopher Gordon and Sundar, Anirudh and Heck, Larry. (2026). "FLEx: Language Modeling with Few-shot Language Explanations." AAAI (submitted).
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Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of LLMs

ICLR 2026

This paper analyzes emotional representations in LLM latent space.

Recommended citation: Reichman, Benjamin and Avsian, Adar and Heck, Larry. (2026). "Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of LLMs." ICLR 2026.
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iTBLS: A Dataset of Interactive Conversations Over Tabular Information

TRL @ ACL 2025

Dataset for studying interactive dialogue grounded in tables.

Recommended citation: 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

PragLM @ COLM 2025

Retrieval-augmented generation with emotional awareness.

Recommended citation: 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.
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