Papers by Maisha Maliha
Mechanistic Interpretability of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Cross-Attention Interventions (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Text-to-image diffusion models generate high quality images through iterative denoising, but their internal mechanisms for grounding prompt semantics into visual structure remain unclear. |
| Approach: | They propose a mechanistic interpretability framework that probes how individual prompt tokens are represented and utilized during the denoising process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enables module-wise and head-wise attribution of semantic changes across denoising timesteps. |
NSF-CoT: Neuro-Symbolic Formal Verification of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Contextual Question Answering (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing faithfulness checks only test whether changing the written chain changes the answer, without verifying whether the steps are truly supported by the given evidence. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that checks CoT faithfulness step by step for contextual question answering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms causal mediation, perturbation probes, and behavioral monitoring in OpenBookQA, QASC, and HotpotQA. |