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Authority Bias in Conversational Search Engines for Academic Paper Recommendation
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as conversational search engines for academic literature, yet whether they judge …
Uthman Jinadu
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Parsa Ghazvinian
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Anjila Budathoki
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Benjamin M. Ampel
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Rajshekhar Sunderraman
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Yi Ding
Last updated on Aug 31, 2026
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Understanding the Role of Prompt Template in Knowledge Distillation for Safety Alignment
Prior research has demonstrated that the choice of prompt template during Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) significantly impacts the …
Anjila Budathoki
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Manish Dhakal
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Benjamin M. Ampel
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Yi Ding
Last updated on Aug 31, 2026
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What an AI manuscript check found in 23 retracted papers
A test of whether an AI pre-submission review would have pointed at the documented problem in 23 open-access papers retracted for errors visible in the manuscript. It did in 14, partly in 4, and missed 5.
Benjamin M. Ampel
Last updated on Oct 11, 2026
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A Domain-Adaptive Soft Prompting Framework for Multi-Type Bias Detection in News
Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled new opportunities to automate media analysis and improve collaborative social …
Chengjun Zhang
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Benjamin M. Ampel
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Sagar Samtani
Last updated on Jun 9, 2026
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Automatic Extraction of Protected Health Information from Multilingual Hacker Communities
Protected Health Information (PHI, e.g., electronic health records, insurance information) is increasingly stolen in data breaches by …
Cade Dacosta
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Benjamin M. Ampel
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Matthew Hashim
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Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Jun 9, 2026
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Large Language Models for Infrastructure as Code Vulnerability Remediation
The growing reliance on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has streamlined cloud provisioning but introduced new security challenges due to …
Raul Reyes
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Benjamin M. Ampel
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Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Sep 14, 2026
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