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Morteza Ziyadi

13 accepted papers

2026

BeyondBench: Benchmark-Free Evaluation of Reasoning in Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Evaluating language models fairly is becoming harder as static benchmarks available on the internet risk contamination by training data. This makes it unclear whether models are truly reasoning or just recalling answers. In this paper, we introduce $\textbf{BeyondBench}$, an evaluation framework tha…

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2026

InterPrior: Scaling Generative Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions

CVPR 2026

Humans rarely plan whole-body interactions with objects at the level of explicit whole-body movements. High-level intentions, such as affordance, define the goal, while coordinated balance, contact, and manipulation can emerge naturally from underlying physical and motor priors. Scaling such priors

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2026

JudgeBoard: Benchmarking and Enhancing Small Language Models for Reasoning Evaluation

AAAI 2026technical

While small language models (SLMs) have shown promise on various reasoning tasks, their ability to judge the correctness of answers remains unclear compared to large language models (LLMs). Prior work on LLM-as-a-judge frameworks typically relies on comparing candidate answers against ground-truth l

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2026

MAVERIX: Multimodal Audio-Visual Evaluation and Recognition IndeX

AAAI 2026technical

We introduce MAVERIX (Multimodal Audio-Visual Evaluation and Recognition IndeX), a unified benchmark to probe video understanding in multimodal LLMs, encompassing video, audio, and text inputs with human performance baselines. Although recent advancements in audiovisual models have shown substantial

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2025

Certifying Counterfactual Bias in LLMs

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce biased responses that can cause representational harms. However, conventional studies are insufficient to thoroughly evaluate biases across LLM responses for different demographic groups (a.k.a. counterfactual bias), as they do not scale to large number of in…

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2025

Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge

NeurIPS 2025poster

Agentic search such as Deep Research systems-where agents autonomously browse the web, synthesize information, and return comprehensive citation-backed answers-represents a major shift in how users interact with web-scale information. While promising greater efficiency and cognitive offloading, the…

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2025

On Localizing and Deleting Toxic Memories in Large Language Models

NAACL 2025findings

Warning: This paper contains offensive language.Ensuring that large language models (LLMs) do not generate harmful text is critical for their safe deployment. A common failure mode involves producing toxic responses to otherwise innocuous prompts. While various detoxification methods have been propo…

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2025

VMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness of Video Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

As foundation models become more sophisticated, ensuring their trustworthiness becomes increasingly critical; yet, unlike text and image, the video modality still lacks comprehensive trustworthiness benchmarks. We introduce VMDT (Video-Modal DecodingTrust), the first unified platform for evaluating…

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2023

Entity Contrastive Learning in a Large-Scale Virtual Assistant System

ACL 2023industry

Conversational agents are typically made up of domain (DC) and intent classifiers (IC) that identify the general subject an utterance belongs to and the specific action a user wishes to achieve. In addition, named entity recognition (NER) performs per token labeling to identify specific entities of…

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2023

INVITE: a Testbed of Automatically Generated Invalid Questions to Evaluate Large Language Models for Hallucinations

EMNLP 2023short findings

Recent advancements in Large language models (LLMs) have enabled them to hold free form conversations over multiple turns, but they exhibit a tendency to make unfounded and incorrect statements, commonly known as hallucinations. In particular, LLMs hallucinate frequently when given invalid question…

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2022

Improving Large-Scale Conversational Assistants using Model Interpretation based Training Sample Selection

EMNLP 2022industry

This paper presents an approach to identify samples from live traffic where the customer implicitly communicated satisfaction with Alexa’s responses, by leveraging interpretations of model behavior. Such customer signals are noisy and adding a large number of samples from live traffic to training se…

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2022

TAPEX: Table Pre-training via Learning a Neural SQL Executor

ICLR 2022poster

Recent progress in language model pre-training has achieved a great success via leveraging large-scale unstructured textual data. However, it is still a challenge to apply pre-training on structured tabular data due to the absence of large-scale high-quality tabular data. In this paper, we propose T…