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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

Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test TimeJacob Dineen, Silei Ren, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth, Ben Zhou
arXiv PreprintSep 2026arxivalphaxivdetails
QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QAJacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Qin Liu, Zhikun Xu, Xiao Ye, Ming Shen, Zhaonan Li, Shijie Lu, Chitta Baral, Muhao Chen, Ben Zhou
EMNLP 2025Jan 2025arxivalphaxivslidesdetails
Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-EvolutionJacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou
COLM 2026Jan 2026arxivalphaxivcodedetails
ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without DistillationAswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Md Nayem Uddin, Mihir Parmar, Chitta Baral, Ben Zhou
EMNLP 2025Aug 2025arxivalphaxivslidescodedetails

All publications

Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test TimeJacob Dineen, Silei Ren, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth, Ben Zhou
arXiv PreprintSep 2026arxivalphaxivdetails
Skill Reuse as Compression in Agentic RLZhikun Xu, Yu Feng, Jacob Dineen, Taiwei Shi, Jieyu Zhao, Ben Zhou
EMNLP 2026May 2026arxivalphaxivdetails
HINDCAST: Replaying Prediction Markets to Evaluate LLM ForecastersXiao Ye, Jacob Dineen, Evan Zhu, Shijie Lu, Kevin Song, Ben Zhou
arXiv PreprintMay 2026arxivalphaxivdetails
RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue SystemsAdarsh Srinivasan, Jacob Dineen, Muhammad Uzair Sarfraz, Muhammad Umar Afzal, Irbaz Riaz, Ben Zhou
Clinical NLP @ LREC 2026 (Oral)May 2026arxivalphaxivpdfdetails
Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-EvolutionJacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou
COLM 2026Jan 2026arxivalphaxivcodedetails

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