{"data":{"publications":{"edges":[{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-Evolution","slug":"/publications/vocab-dropout-2026","authors":"Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou","venue":"Pending COLM 2026","date":"2026-01-02T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["rl","post-training","self-play","reasoning"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Mid-Training With Self-Generated Data Improves Reinforcement Learning in Language Models","slug":"/publications/midtraining-2026","authors":"Aswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Mihir Parmar, Ben Zhou, Swaroop Mishra, Chitta Baral","venue":"Pending NeurIPS 2026","date":"2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["rl","post-training","reasoning"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue Systems","slug":"/publications/recap-2025","authors":"Adarsh Srinivasan, Jacob Dineen, Muhammad Umar Afzal, Muhammad Uzair Sarfraz, Irbaz B. Riaz, Ben Zhou","venue":"Clinical NLP Workshop 2026 (Oral)","date":"2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["inference-time","medical","alignment"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"VisAnalog: A Diagnostic Suite for Visual Concept Transfer on Natural Images","slug":"/publications/visual-analogies-2025","authors":"Zhaonan 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","venue":"CVPR Workshop on Visual Concepts (VisCon), 2026","date":"2025-11-02T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["multimodal","evaluation","reasoning"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Unbiased Visual Reasoning with Controlled Visual Inputs","slug":"/publications/unbiased-visual-reasoning-2025","authors":"Zhaonan 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","venue":"Pending COLM 2026","date":"2025-11-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["rl","multimodal","reasoning","robustness"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Evaluating Medical LLMs by Levels of Autonomy: A Survey","slug":"/publications/medical-llms-autonomy-2025","authors":"Xiao Ye, Jacob Dineen, Zhaonan Li, Zhikun Xu, Weiyu Chen, Shijie Lu, Yuxi Huang, Ming Shen, Phu Tran, Ji-Eun Irene Yum, Muhammad Ali Khan, Muhammad Umar Afzal, Irbaz Bin Riaz, Ben Zhou","venue":"arXiv preprint","date":"2025-10-20T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["medical","agents","evaluation","survey"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"ArenaBencher: Automatic Benchmark Evolution via Multi-Model Competitive Evaluation","slug":"/publications/arenabencher-2025","authors":"Qin Liu, Jacob Dineen, Yuxi Huang, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Ben Zhou, Muhao Chen","venue":"Pending COLM 2026","date":"2025-10-09T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["evaluation","agents","robustness"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without Distillation","slug":"/publications/thinktuning-2025","authors":"Aswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Md Nayem Uddin, Mihir Parmar, Chitta Baral, Ben Zhou","venue":"EMNLP 2025","date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["rl","post-training","reasoning"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"CC-LEARN: Cohort-based Consistency Learning","slug":"/publications/cc-learn-2025","authors":"Xiao Ye, Shaswat Shrivastava, Zhaonan Li, Jacob Dineen, Shijie Lu, Avneet Ahuja, Ming Shen, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou","venue":"Pending COLM 2026","date":"2025-06-18T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["rl","post-training","reasoning"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Training Language Models with Context-Free Reasoning Bottlenecks","slug":"/publications/bow-2025","authors":"Ming Shen, Zhikun Xu, Jacob Dineen, Xiao Ye, Ben Zhou","venue":"Pending COLM 2026","date":"2025-06-16T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["rl","post-training","reasoning"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA","slug":"/publications/qa-lign-2025","authors":"Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Qin Liu, Zhikun Xu, Xiao Ye, Ming Shen, Zhaonan Li, Shijie Lu, Chitta Baral, Muhao Chen, Ben Zhou","venue":"EMNLP 2025","date":"2025-01-02T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["rl","post-training","alignment","interpretability"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"ToW: Thoughts of Words Improve Reasoning in Large Language Models","slug":"/publications/tow-2024","authors":"Zhikun Xu, Ming Shen, Jacob Dineen, Zhaonan Li, Xiao Ye, Shijie Lu, Aswin RRV, Chitta Baral, Ben Zhou","venue":"NAACL 2025","date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["pretraining","distillation","reasoning"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Unified Explanations in Machine Learning Models: A Perturbation Approach","slug":"/publications/unified-xai-2023","authors":"Jacob Dineen, Don Kridel, Daniel Dolk, David Castillo","venue":"HICSS 2023","date":"2023-1-07","tags":["interpretability","evaluation","robustness"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Formal Methods for an Iterated Volunteer's Dilemma","slug":"/publications/volunteer-dilemma-2021","authors":"Jacob Dineen, ASM Ahsan-Ul Haque, Matthew Bielskas","venue":"SBP-BRiMS 2021","date":"2021-7-04","tags":["game-theory","formal-methods"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Reinforcement Learning for Data Poisoning on Graph Neural Networks","slug":"/publications/rl-data-poisoning-2021","authors":"Jacob Dineen, ASM Ahsan-Ul Haque, Matthew Bielskas","venue":"SBP-BRiMS 2021","date":"2021-7-04","tags":["rl","security","robustness"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Model Interpretation and Explainability towards Creating Transparency in Prediction Models","slug":"/publications/model-xai-2020","authors":"Daniel Dolk, Donald Kridel, Jacob Dineen, David Castillo","venue":"HICSS 2020","date":"2020-1-07","tags":["interpretability","evaluation"]}}}]},"posts":{"edges":[{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Accessible Clickable Cards","slug":"/pensieve/clickable-cards","description":"Clickable cards with multiple child links","tags":["Accessibility","CSS"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Dark Mode Toggle","slug":"/pensieve/dark-mode-toggle","description":"Dark mode without the flash of default theme","tags":["Theming","Dark Mode"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Docker Compose Error","slug":"/pensieve/docker-error","description":"docker-compose version discrepancies","tags":["WordPress","Docker"]}}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"WordPress Publishing Error","slug":"/pensieve/wordpress-publish-error","description":"Trying to create a simple post in WordPress","tags":["WordPress"]}}}]}}}