COLM 2026 (Submitted)
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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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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ACL 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." ACL (submitted).
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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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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.
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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