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Pouya Pezeshkpour

10 accepted papers

2026

Geometry-Aware Decoding with Wasserstein-Regularized Truncation and Mass Penalties for Large Language Models

ICML 2026spotlight

Large language models (LLMs) must balance diversity and creativity against logical coherence in open-ended generation. Existing truncation-based samplers are effective but largely heuristic, relying mainly on probability mass and entropy while ignoring semantic geometry of the token space. We presen…

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2026

Towards Reliable Benchmarking: A Contamination Free, Controllable Evaluation Framework for Multi-step LLM Function Calling

ICLR 2026poster

As language models gain access to external tools through structured function calls, they become increasingly more capable of solving complex, multi-step tasks. However, existing benchmarks for tool-augmented language models (TaLMs) provide insufficient control over factors such as the number of func…

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2025

Evaluating Bias in LLMs for Job-Resume Matching: Gender, Race, and Education

NAACL 2025industry

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer the potential to automate hiring by matching job descriptions with candidate resumes, streamlining recruitment processes, and reducing operational costs. However, biases inherent in these models may lead to unfair hiring practices, reinforcing societal prejudices a…

2025

From Single to Multi: How LLMs Hallucinate in Multi-Document Summarization

NAACL 2025findings

Although many studies have investigated and reduced hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) for single-document tasks, research on hallucination in multi-document summarization (MDS) tasks remains largely unexplored. Specifically, it is unclear how the challenges arising from handling multipl…

2025

LLMs Are Not Intelligent Thinkers: Introducing Mathematical Topic Tree Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of LLMs

NAACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in mathematical reasoning. However, despite these achievements, current evaluations are mostly limited to specific mathematical topics, and it remains unclear whether LLMs are genuinely engaging in reasoning. To address these gaps, we…

2025

Mixed Signals: Decoding VLMs’ Reasoning and Underlying Bias in Vision-Language Conflict

EMNLP 2025

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance by effectively integrating visual and textual information to solve complex tasks. However, it is not clear how these models reason over the visual and textual data together, nor how the flow of information between modalities is s

2024

Large Language Models Sensitivity to The Order of Options in Multiple-Choice Questions

NAACL 2024findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various NLP tasks. However, previous works have shown these models are sensitive towards prompt wording, and few-shot demonstrations and their order, posing challenges to fair assessment of these models. As these models become…

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2022

Combining Feature and Instance Attribution to Detect Artifacts

ACL 2022findings

Training the deep neural networks that dominate NLP requires large datasets. These are often collected automatically or via crowdsourcing, and may exhibit systematic biases or annotation artifacts. By the latter we mean spurious correlations between inputs and outputs that do not represent a general…

2021

An Empirical Comparison of Instance Attribution Methods for NLP

NAACL 2021long

Widespread adoption of deep models has motivated a pressing need for approaches to interpret network outputs and to facilitate model debugging. Instance attribution methods constitute one means of accomplishing these goals by retrieving training instances that (may have) led to a particular predicti…