Skip to content

Author

Emre Can Acikgoz

We have 2 of 23 papers

We haven’t gathered this author’s papers yet. Follow them and we’ll fetch their work.

Not the right person? Other researchers publish under this name.

#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Understanding the Synergy between SFT, RLVR, and OPD in LLM Post-Training

Modern LLM post-training composes supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), and on-policy distillation (OPD) into multi-stage pipelines, yet these stages are typically designed and evaluated in isolation. We show that this composition is consequential: a stage that improves th...

Emre Can Acikgoz, Yang Li, Z. Liu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Learning to Persuade Exposes How Easily LLMs Abandon Correct Beliefs

These findings expose a critical weakness in current LLM agents: even when they initially reason correctly, they can be steered toward false conclusions by optimized natural language influence, which positions persuasion robustness as a necessary safety criterion for multi-agent and human-AI decision-making systems.

Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Emre Can Acikgoz, Gokhan Tur et al. · 1 citation

We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads. See our Cookie Policy.