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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.

Skill Reuse as Compression in Agentic RLZhikun Xu, Yu Feng, Jacob Dineen, Ben Zhou
Pending NeurIPS 2026Jan 2026details
Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-EvolutionJacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou
Pending COLM 2026Jan 2026arxivdetails
Mid-training with Self-Generated Data Improves Reinforcement Learning in Language ModelsAswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Mihir Parmar, Ben Zhou, Chitta Baral, Swaroop Mishra
Pending ICML 2026Jan 2026details
RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue SystemsAdarsh Srinivasan, Jacob Dineen, Muhammad Umar Afzal, Muhammad Uzair Sarfraz, Irbaz B. Riaz, Ben Zhou
Clinical NLP Workshop 2026 (Oral)Jan 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

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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