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Bradley A. Malin

7 accepted papers

2025

Heuristic-based Search Algorithm in Automatic Instruction-focused Prompt Optimization: A Survey

ACL 2025finding

Recent advances in Large Language Models(LLMs) have led to remarkable achievements across a variety of Natural Language Processing(NLP) tasks, making prompt engineering increasingly central to guiding model outputs. While manual methods (e.g., “chain-of-thought,” “step-by-step” prompts) can be effec…

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2025

SEE: Strategic Exploration and Exploitation for Cohesive In-Context Prompt Optimization

ACL 2025long

Designing optimal prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs) is a complex and resource-intensive task, often requiring substantial human expertise. Existing approaches typically separate the optimization of prompt instructions and in-context learning examples, leading to incohesive, suboptimal results…

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2025

Towards Statistical Factuality Guarantee for Large Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in image-conditioned text generation; however, hallucinated outputs–text that misaligns with the visual input–pose a major barrier to their use in safety-critical applications. We introduce ConfLVLM, a conf

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2025

What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Membership inference tests aim to determine whether a particular data point was included in a language model's training set. However, recent works have shown that such tests often fail under the strict definition of membership based on exact matching, and have suggested relaxing this definition to i…

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2024

Divide-Conquer-Reasoning for Consistency Evaluation and Automatic Improvement of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024industry

Evaluating the quality and consistency of text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) poses a significant, yet unresolved challenge for industry research. We propose , an automated framework for evaluating and improving the consistency of LLM-generated texts using a divide-conquer-reasoning appro…

2024

Do You Know What You Are Talking About? Characterizing Query-Knowledge Relevance For Reliable Retrieval Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2024main

Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from hallucinations and misinformation. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) that retrieves verifiable information from an external knowledge corpus to complement the parametric knowledge in LMs provides a tangible solution to these problems. However, the ge…

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2023

SAC$^3$: Reliable Hallucination Detection in Black-Box Language Models via Semantic-aware Cross-check Consistency

EMNLP 2023long findings

Hallucination detection is a critical step toward understanding the trustworthiness of modern language models (LMs). To achieve this goal, we re-examine existing detection approaches based on the self-consistency of LMs and uncover two types of hallucinations resulting from 1) question-level and 2)…

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