Jacob Dineen

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Reasoning, alignment, and controllability in LLMs at ASU's ARC Lab.

Selected work

Key figure from Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test Time

Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test TimeJacob Dineen, Silei Ren, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth, Ben Zhou

Under Review, ICLR 2027Sep 2026arxiv alphaxivdetails

Key figure from QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA

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 2025 FindingsJan 2025arxiv alphaxiv slidesdetails

Key figure from Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-Evolution

Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-EvolutionJacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou

COLM 2026Jan 2026arxiv alphaxiv codedetails

Key figure from ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without Distillation

ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without DistillationAswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Md Nayem Uddin, Mihir Parmar, Chitta Baral, Ben Zhou

EMNLP 2025Aug 2025arxiv alphaxiv slides codedetails

All publications

Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test TimeJacob Dineen, Silei Ren, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth, Ben Zhou

Under Review, ICLR 2027Sep 2026arxiv alphaxivdetails

Skill Reuse as Compression in Agentic RLZhikun Xu, Yu Feng, Jacob Dineen, Taiwei Shi, Jieyu Zhao, Ben Zhou

EMNLP 2026May 2026arxiv alphaxiv details

HINDCAST: Replaying Prediction Markets to Evaluate LLM ForecastersXiao Ye, Jacob Dineen, Evan Zhu, Shijie Lu, Kevin Song, Ben Zhou

arXiv PreprintMay 2026arxiv alphaxiv details

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 2026arxiv alphaxiv pdfdetails

Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-EvolutionJacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou

COLM 2026Jan 2026arxiv alphaxiv codedetails

News

Sep 2026New preprint: Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test Time.
Sep 2026CC-Learn accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (Main).
Aug 2026Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2026 (Main): BOW and Skill Reuse as Compression.
Jul 2026Vocabulary Dropout accepted at COLM 2026.
Apr 2026VisAnalog accepted at the CVPR Workshop on Visual Concepts (VisCon) 2026 (Oral).
Apr 2026RECAP published at the 8th Clinical NLP Workshop (Oral) at LREC 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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