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Hey, I'm Jake.

I'm a PhD student at ASU's ARC Lab working on LLM reasoning and alignment. Before that, ten years building ML infrastructure in fintech.

Selected work

Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-EvolutionJacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou
Pending COLM 2026Jan 2026arxivdetails
VisAnalog: A Diagnostic Suite for Visual Concept Transfer on Natural ImagesZhaonan Li, Kyle R. Chickering, Bangzheng Li, Jacob Dineen, Xiao Ye, Zhikun Xu, Shijie Lu, Yuxi Huang, Ming Shen, Bach Nguyen, Jaya Adithya Pavuluri, Mau Son Nguyen, Sanika Chavan, Ngoc Minh Thu Le, Muhao Chen, Ben Zhou
CVPR Workshop on Visual Concepts (VisCon), 2026Nov 2025details
Unbiased Visual Reasoning with Controlled Visual InputsZhaonan Li, Shijie Lu, Fei Wang, Jacob Dineen, Xiao Ye, Zhikun Xu, Siyi Liu, Young Min Cho, Bangzheng Li, Daniel Chang, Kenny Nguyen, Qizheng Yang, Muhao Chen, Ben Zhou
Pending COLM 2026Nov 2025arxivdetails

News

  • Apr 2026VisAnalog accepted at the CVPR Workshop on Visual Concepts (VisCon) 2026.
  • Apr 2026RECAP accepted at the 8th Clinical NLP Workshop (Oral) at LREC-COLING 2026.
  • Aug 2025Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2025: QA-LIGN and ThinkTuning.
  • Jan 2025ToW accepted at NAACL 2025.
  • Aug 2024Joined AI Reasoning & Cognition (ARC) Lab, advised by Prof. Ben Zhou.

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