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Danush Khanna

4 accepted papers

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

DPO Kernels: A Semantically-Aware, Kernel-Enhanced, and Divergence-Rich Paradigm for Direct Preference Optimization

ACL 2025finding

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized numerous applications, but presents significant challenges in aligning these models with diverse human values, ethical standards, and specific user preferences. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has become a cornerstone for…

2025

SELF-PERCEPT: Introspection Improves Large Language Models’ Detection of Multi-Person Mental Manipulation in Conversations

ACL 2025short

Mental manipulation is a subtle yet pervasive form of abuse in interpersonal communication, making its detection critical for safeguarding potential victims. However, due to manipulation’s nuanced and context-specific nature, identifying manipulative language in complex, multi-turn, and multi-person…

2024

Legal Judgment Reimagined: PredEx and the Rise of Intelligent AI Interpretation in Indian Courts

ACL 2024findings

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), predicting judicial outcomes poses significant challenges due to the complexity of legal proceedings and the scarcity of expert-annotated datasets. Addressing this, we introduce Prediction with Explanation (PredEx), the largest expert-annotated dataset for…