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It is important for Large Language Models (LLMs) to be aware of the boundary of their knowledge, distinguishing queries they can confidently answer from those that lie beyond their capabilities. Such awareness enables models to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lihu Chen , Gerard de Melo , Fabian M. Suchanek , Gaël Varoquaux

The broad capabilities of Language Models (LMs) can be limited by their sensitivity to distractor tasks: LMs can infer secondary tasks from the prompt in addition to the intended one, leading to unwanted outputs. For example, prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Raymond Douglas , Andis Draguns , Tomáš Gavenčiak

Unified multimodal models can encode visual understanding and image generation within a shared backbone, yet understanding does not automatically translate into control: models may infer objects, relations, or knowledge cues but fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fuxiang Zhai , Sixiang Chen , Yingjin Li , Shuaibo Li , Jianyu Lai , Tengjun Huang , Lei Zhu

Although Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made substantial progress, hallucination, where generated text is not grounded in the visual input, remains a challenge. As LVLMs become stronger, previously reported hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 April Fu

Understanding how large language models (LLMs) internally represent and process their predictions is central to detecting uncertainty and preventing hallucinations. While several studies have shown that models encode uncertainty in their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sunwoo Kim , Haneul Yoo , Alice Oh

Language models (LMs) can produce texts that appear accurate and coherent but contain untruthful or toxic content. Inference-time interventions that edit the hidden activations have shown promising results in steering the LMs towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chonghe Jiang , Bao Nguyen , Anthony Man-Cho So , Viet Anh Nguyen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance in question answering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), yet they implicitly assume that user queries are fully specified and answerable. In real-world settings, queries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Madhav S Baidya

Due to the prevalence of large language models (LLMs), key-value (KV) cache reduction for LLM inference has received remarkable attention. Among numerous works that have been proposed in recent years, layer-wise token pruning approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Rei Taniguchi , Yuyang Dong , Makoto Onizuka , Chuan Xiao

Despite significant progress in transformer interpretability, an understanding of the computational mechanisms of large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental challenge. Many approaches interpret a network's hidden representations but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 James R. Golden

Large Language Models frequently generate fluent but factually incorrect text. We propose Adaptive Activation Cancellation (AAC), a real-time inference-time framework that treats hallucination-associated neural activations as structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Eric Yocam , Varghese Vaidyan , Gurcan Comert , Paris Kalathas , Yong Wang , Judith L. Mwakalonge

Large language models demonstrate strong performance on mathematical reasoning benchmarks, yet remain surprisingly fragile to meaning-preserving surface perturbations. We systematically evaluate three open-weight LLMs, Mistral-7B,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Shou-Tzu Han , Rodrigue Rizk , KC Santosh

The inference demand for LLMs has skyrocketed in recent months, and serving models with low latencies remains challenging due to the quadratic input length complexity of the attention layers. In this work, we investigate the effect of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Georgy Tyukin , Gbetondji J-S Dovonon , Jean Kaddour , Pasquale Minervini

Large Language Models are increasingly proposed as cognitive components for robotic systems, yet their opaque decision processes make it difficult to explain success or failure in closed-loop embodied tasks. Following an empirical AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Oussama Zenkri , Oliver Brock

Large language models are trained in two stages: (1) unsupervised pretraining from raw text, to learn general-purpose representations, and (2) large scale instruction tuning and reinforcement learning, to better align to end tasks and user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Chunting Zhou , Pengfei Liu , Puxin Xu , Srini Iyer , Jiao Sun , Yuning Mao , Xuezhe Ma , Avia Efrat , Ping Yu , Lili Yu , Susan Zhang , Gargi Ghosh , Mike Lewis , Luke Zettlemoyer , Omer Levy

When model developers or users fine-tune an LLM, this can induce behaviors that are unexpected, deliberately harmful, or hard to detect. It would be far easier to audit LLMs if they could simply describe their behaviors in natural language.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Keshav Shenoy , Li Yang , Abhay Sheshadri , Sören Mindermann , Jack Lindsey , Sam Marks , Rowan Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in both textual and multimodal domains. However, this success often comes with substantial computational costs, particularly when handling lengthy sequences of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mustafa Shukor , Matthieu Cord

Recently, latent action learning, pioneered by Latent Action Policies (LAPO), have shown remarkable pre-training efficiency on observation-only data, offering potential for leveraging vast amounts of video available on the web for embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Alexander Nikulin , Ilya Zisman , Denis Tarasov , Nikita Lyubaykin , Andrei Polubarov , Igor Kiselev , Vladislav Kurenkov

For Large Language Models (LLMs) to be reliably deployed, models must effectively know when not to answer: abstain. Reasoning models, in particular, have gained attention for impressive performance on complex tasks. However, reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Abinitha Gourabathina , Inkit Padhi , Manish Nagireddy , Subhajit Chaudhury , Prasanna Sattigeri

Recently, dynamic computation methods have shown notable acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs) by skipping several layers of computations through elaborate heuristics or additional predictors. However, in the decoding process of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Understanding how feature representations evolve across layers in large language models (LLMs) is key to improving their interpretability and robustness. While recent studies have identified critical layers linked to specific functions or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xuyuan Liu , Lei Hsiung , Yaoqing Yang , Yujun Yan