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Somya Chatterjee

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Can LLMs Truly Forget? Revealing Unlearning Gaps Through Adversarial Evaluation

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of targeted training data from a model while preserving its remaining capabilities, but evaluating whether such information has truly become inaccessible remains challenging. Existing benchmarks primarily assess unlearning under clean, non-adversarial queries, leaving open whether information that appears forgotten can still be recovered through strategic prompting. We address this gap through a unified evaluation of prompt-based and fine-tuning-based unlearning methods on TOFU using Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, followed by an adversarial robustness evaluation of methods that perform strongly under standard metrics. We introduce Attack Success Rate (ASR), an LLM-as-judge metric that measures the fraction of adversarial responses whose leakage score exceeds $0.2$, and evaluate recovery across eight attack suites. Our results reveal a substantial gap between clean-query forgetting and adversarial robustness. Although several fine-tuning-based methods achieve Forget Quality above $0.91$, targeted information remains recoverable with ASRs between $72.8\%$ and $84.3\%$, close to the $87.5\%$ ASR of the unprotected base model. In contrast, clean multilingual reformulations yield only $2.95\%$ measured leakage. A manual audit further finds agreement between binary ASR decisions and human factual assessments in seven of ten cases, indicating that ASR provides a useful, though imperfect, signal of behavioral recoverability. These findings show that strong standard-metric performance alone is insufficient to establish robustness after unlearning and motivate adversarial stress-testing as a complementary component of unlearning evaluation.

cs.CL

Metag: A dataset to build agentic meta-reviewing capabilities

AI tools increasingly support tasks across the scientific research cycle, from experiment design and manuscript preparation to peer review. At the same time, the continuing growth in conference submissions has increased the burden on meta-reviewers, who must synthesize reviewer feedback, author rebuttals, and manuscript revisions. To address this concern, this paper introduces Metag, a dataset to accelerate the development of meta-reviewing agents, specifically to identify changes made to scientific articles during the review-rebuttal process. Each instance contains a reviewer concern, the author's proposed resolution, and the manuscript diffs implementing the stated change. Metag is collected by obtaining manuscript versions from before the review deadline and after acceptance, computing differences between the two documents, and asking human annotators to align these differences with action items from OpenReview discussions. The resulting dataset consists of 349 high-quality action items tied to paper differences and will enable building methods to empower meta reviewers to quickly identify whether authors have addressed reviewer statements and where in the paper those changes have been made, resulting in additional transparency and traceability throughout peer review. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/microsoft/Metag-dataset.

cs.LG

High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training

The development of machine learning for cardiac care is severely hampered by privacy restrictions on sharing real patient electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Although generative AI offers a promising solution, the real-world use of existing model-synthesized ECGs is limited by persistent gaps in trustworthiness and clinical utility. In this work, we address two major shortcomings of current generative ECG methods: insufficient morphological fidelity and the inability to generate personalized, patient-specific physiological signals. To address these gaps, we build on a conditional diffusion-based Structured State Space Model (SSSD-ECG) with two principled innovations: (1) MIDT-ECG (Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training), a novel training paradigm with time-frequency domain supervision to enforce physiological structural realism, and (2) multi-modal demographic conditioning to enable patient-specific synthesis. We comprehensively evaluate our approach on the PTB-XL dataset, assessing the synthesized ECG signals on fidelity, clinical coherence, privacy preservation, and downstream task utility. MIDT-ECG achieves substantial gains: it improves morphological coherence, preserves strong privacy guarantees with all metrics evaluated exceeding the baseline by 4-8%, and notably reduces the interlead correlation error by an average of 74%, while demographic conditioning enhances signal-to-noise ratio and personalization. In critical low-data regimes, a classifier trained on datasets supplemented with our synthetic ECGs achieves performance comparable to a classifier trained solely on real data. Together, we demonstrate that ECG synthesizers, trained with the proposed time-frequency structural regularization scheme, can serve as personalized, high-fidelity, privacy-preserving surrogates when real data are scarce, advancing the responsible use of generative AI in healthcare.

cs.LG

Do Code Models Suffer from the Dunning-Kruger Effect?

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly collaborate with humans in creative and technical domains, questions arise about the cognitive boundaries and biases that shape our shared agency. This paper investigates the Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE), the tendency for those with limited competence to overestimate their abilities in state-of-the-art LLMs in coding tasks. By analyzing model confidence and performance across a diverse set of programming languages, we reveal that AI models mirror human patterns of overconfidence, especially in unfamiliar or low-resource domains. Our experiments demonstrate that less competent models and those operating in rare programming languages exhibit stronger DKE-like bias, suggesting that the strength of the bias is proportionate to the competence of the models.

cs.AI

One Head, Many Models: Cross-Attention Routing for Cost-Aware LLM Selection

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) with varying computational costs and performance profiles presents a critical challenge for scalable, cost-effective deployment in real-world applications. We introduce a unified routing framework that leverages a single-head cross-attention mechanism to jointly model query and model embeddings, enabling dynamic selection of the optimal LLM for each input query. Our approach is evaluated on RouterBench, a large-scale, publicly available benchmark encompassing diverse LLM pools and domains. By explicitly capturing fine-grained query-model interactions, our router predicts both response quality and generation cost, achieving up to 6.6% improvement in Average Improvement in Quality (AIQ) and 2.9% in maximum performance over existing routers. To robustly balance performance and cost, we propose an exponential reward function that enhances stability across user preferences. The resulting architecture is lightweight, generalizes effectively across domains, and demonstrates improved efficiency compared to prior methods, establishing a new standard for cost-aware LLM routing.

cs.LG