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Zorik Gekhman

9 accepted papers

2026

Empty Shelves or Lost Keys? Recall Is the Bottleneck for Parametric Factuality

ICML 2026poster

Standard factuality evaluations of LLMs treat all errors alike, obscuring whether failures arise from missing knowledge (empty shelves) or from limited access to encoded facts (lost keys). We propose a behavioral framework that profiles factual knowledge at the level of facts rather than questions, …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Can LLMs Learn Macroeconomic Narratives from Social Media?

NAACL 2025findings

This study empirically tests the Narrative Economics hypothesis, which posits that narratives (ideas that are spread virally and affect public beliefs) can influence economic fluctuations. We introduce two curated datasets containing posts from X (formerly Twitter) which capture economy-related narr…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

Confidence Improves Self-Consistency in LLMs

ACL 2025finding

Self-consistency decoding enhances LLMs’ performance on reasoning tasks by sampling diverse reasoning paths and selecting the most frequent answer. However, it is computationally expensive, as sampling many of these (lengthy) paths is required to increase the chances that the correct answer emerges…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) often produce errors, including factual inaccuracies, biases, and reasoning failures, collectively referred to as "hallucinations". Recent studies have demonstrated that LLMs' internal states encode information regarding the truthfulness of their outputs, and that this i…

2025

NL-Eye: Abductive NLI For Images

ICLR 2025poster

Will a Visual Language Model (VLM)-based bot warn us about slipping if it detects a wet floor? Recent VLMs have demonstrated impressive capabilities, yet their ability to infer outcomes and causes remains underexplored. To address this, we introduce NL-Eye, a benchmark designed to assess VLMs' visua…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations?

EMNLP 2024main

When large language models are aligned via supervised fine-tuning, they may encounter new factual information that was not acquired through pre-training. It is often conjectured that this can teach the model the behavior of hallucinating factually incorrect responses, as the model is trained to gene…

Cited by 95SourcePDFScholar
2024

Measuring the Robustness of NLP Models to Domain Shifts

EMNLP 2024finding

Existing research on Domain Robustness (DR) suffers from disparate setups, limited task variety, and scarce research on recent capabilities such as in-context learning. Furthermore, the common practice of measuring DR might not be fully accurate. Current research focuses on challenge sets and relies…

2023

TrueTeacher: Learning Factual Consistency Evaluation with Large Language Models

EMNLP 2023long main

Factual consistency evaluation is often conducted using Natural Language Inference (NLI) models, yet these models exhibit limited success in evaluating summaries. Previous work improved such models with synthetic training data. However, the data is typically based on perturbed human-written summarie…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2022

RED-ACE: Robust Error Detection for ASR using Confidence Embeddings

EMNLP 2022main

ASR Error Detection (AED) models aim to post-process the output of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, in order to detect transcription errors. Modern approaches usually use text-based input, comprised solely of the ASR transcription hypothesis, disregarding additional signals from the ASR m…