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Abhilekh Borah

5 accepted papers

2026

Always Refuse: Steering LLMs Against Jailbreaks with Contrastive Activations (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2026technical

Refusals must be resilient, not brittle.” Yet guarding refusals against adversarial phrasing and shifting user contexts remains difficult: large language models (LLMs) still yield to jailbreak prompts that evade safety filters and surface harmful content. We propose Refusal Activation Steering (RAS)

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2026

DETONATE – A Benchmark for Text-to-Image Alignment and Kernelized Direct Preference Optimization

AAAI 2026technical

Alignment is crucial for text-to-image (T2I) models to ensure that the generated images faithfully capture user intent while maintaining safety and fairness. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a key alignment technique for large language models (LLMs), and its influence is now exten

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2026

Social Agents: Collective Intelligence Improves LLM Predictions

ICLR 2026poster

In human society, collective decision making has often outperformed the judgment of individuals. Classic examples range from estimating livestock weights to predicting elections and financial markets, where averaging many independent guesses often yields results more accurate than experts. These suc…

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2025

Alignment Quality Index (AQI) : Beyond Refusals: AQI as an Intrinsic Alignment Diagnostic via Latent Geometry, Cluster Divergence, and Layer wise Pooled Representations

EMNLP 2025

Alignment is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity. As large language models (LLMs) enter high-stakes domains like education, healthcare, governance, and law, their behavior must reliably reflect human-aligned values and safety constraints. Yet current evaluations rely heavily on behavioral proxies

2025

DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models’ Understanding on Indian Culture

EMNLP 2025

We introduce DRISHTIKON, a first-of-its-kind multimodal and multilingual benchmark centered exclusively on Indian culture, designed to evaluate the cultural understanding of generative AI systems. Unlike existing benchmarks with a generic or global scope, DRISHTIKON offers deep, fine-grained coverag

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