Papers by Ali Khalil
The Unintended Trade-off of AI Alignment: Balancing Hallucination Mitigation and Safety in LLMs (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Hallucination in large language models has been studied, but a side effect remains unrecognized . a new study examines the trade-off between truthfulness and safety alignment . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that disentangles hallucination from hallucinian features using sparse autoencoders. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method preserves refusal behavior and task utility while maintaining safety alignment. |
Efficient Citer: Tuning Large Language Models for Enhanced Answer Quality and Verification (2024.findings-naacl)
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Marzieh Tahaei, Aref Jafari, Ahmad Rashid, David Alfonso-Hermelo, Khalil Bibi, Yimeng Wu, Ali Ghodsi, Boxing Chen, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
| Challenge: | Existing models with explicit citations lack the ability to verify information generated by these models. |
| Approach: | They construct a citation training dataset and fine-tune two models to address the challenge of explicit citations efficiently. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models surpass ChatGPT and exhibit exceptional out-of-domain generalization in both human and automatic evaluation. |