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Aryan Sood

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Underscoring the Problem: Why Softpick Fails at Initialization

Softmax attention gives every token a nonzero weight, which in trained models concentrates into attention sinks and massive activations that widen the dynamic range low-precision inference must cover. Softpick removes this constraint by rectifying scores, eliminating sinks and lowering hidden-state kurtosis, but its ad...

Aryan Sood, Jaikaran Singh, Ishaan Bansal · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Are You Sure You're Sure? Two Confounds in a Sycophancy Benchmark

An audit of SycEval, which reports that objections raised before a model answers (preemptive) cause more caving than those raised after (in-context), and attributes the gap to timing, and builds the missing comparison and tests it on multiple-choice questions and SycEval's own free-form pipeline.

Atharva Gupta, A. Jindal, Lavanya Nigam et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Generating Adversarial Texts for Machine Translation via GRPO

This work proposes a scalable reinforcement-learning-based approach for rewriting existing source texts into instances that are more difficult to translate for MT systems, using a large language model with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and fine-tune a large language model with Group Relative Policy Optimiza...

Florian Zogaj, Jakob Hütteneder, Giovanni De Muri et al. · 1 citation
Preprint Aug 2026

Lost in Interpolation: Why Predictive Feedback Fails in Diffusion Language Models

Spherical Soft-Masking (S-SM), a drop-in replacement that aggregates the top-(k) predictions with a Fr'echet mean on the hypersphere and blends this mean with the mask direction using spherical linear interpolation (SLERP), then restores the native mask norm.

Lavanya Nigam, Ishaan Bansal, Aryan Sood et al. · 1 citation

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