Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

1. Persuade Me if You Can: A Framework for Evaluating Persuasion Effectiveness and Susceptibility Among Large Language Models
   Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Shuhaib Mehri, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
   Preprint. 2025.

2. Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model
   Emre Can Acikgoz, Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng, Oussama Elachqar, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
   Preprint. 2025.

3. SMART: Self-Aware Agent for Tool Overuse Mitigation
   Cheng Qian*, Emre Can Acikgoz*, Hongru Wang, Xiusi Chen, Avirup Sil, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Heng Ji
   Preprint. 2025.

4. LLMs are Vulnerable to Malicious Prompts Disguised as Scientific Language
   Yubin Ge*, Neeraja Kirtane*, Hao Peng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
   Preprint. 2025.

5. Data Valuation using Neural Networks for Efficient Instruction Fine-Tuning
   Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
   Preprint. 2025.

6. Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains Improve Error Identification in Math reasoning with LLMs
   Sagnik Mukherjee*, Abhinav Chinta*, Takyoung Kim, Tarun Anoop Sharma, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
   Preprint. 2025.

7. Beyond Sample-Level Feedback: Using Reference-Level Feedback to Guide Data Synthesis
   Shuhaib Mehri, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
   Preprint. 2025.

8. Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems
   Mert İnan, Anthony Sicilia, Suvodip Dey, Vardhan Dongre, Tejas Srinivasan, Jesse Thomason, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Malihe Alikhani
   Preprint. 2025.

9. Towards Preventing Overreliance on Task-Oriented Conversational AI Through Accountability Modeling
   Suvodip Dey, Yi-Jyun Sun, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
   Preprint. 2025.

10. ReSpAct: Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting Towards Building Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI Agents
    Vardhan Dongre, Xiaocheng Yang, Emre Can Acikgoz, Suvodip Dey, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    Preprint. 2024.

11. DELIFT: Data Efficient Language model Instruction Fine Tuning
    Ishika Agarwal, Krishnateja Killamsetty, Lucian Popa, Marina Danilevksy
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). 2025.

12. Learning to Explore and Select for Coverage-Conditioned Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Takyoung Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Young Rok Jang, Ji Yong Cho, Gangwoo Kim, Minseok Cho, Moontae Lee
    Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL, Findings). 2025.

13. Infogent: An Agent-based Framework for Web Information Aggregation
    Revanth Gangi Reddy*, Sagnik Mukherjee*, Jeonghwan Kim*, Zhenhailong Wang*, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Heng Ji
    Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL, Findings). 2025.

14. From Context to Action: Analysis of the Impact of State Representation and Context on Generalizability of Multi-Turn Web Navigation Agents
    Nalin Tiwary*, Vardhan Dongre*, Sanil Chawala, Ashwin Lamani, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Open-World Agents. 2024.

15. Simulating User Agents for Embodied Conversational AI
    Daniel Phillipov, Vardhan Dongre, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Open-World Agents. 2024.

16. Instruct, Not Assist: LLM-based Multi-Turn Planning and Hierarchical Questioning for Socratic Code Debugging
    Priyanka Karagupta*, Ishika Agarwal*, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Jiawei Han
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP, Findings). 2024.

17. Cultural Conditioning or Placebo? On the Effectiveness of Socio-Demographic Prompting
    Sagnik Mukherjee*, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda*, Sunayana Sitaram, Kalika Bali, Alham Fikri Aji, Monojit Choudhury
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2024.

18. Towards Measuring and Modeling “Culture” in LLMs: A Survey
    Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda*, Sagnik Mukherjee*, Pradhyumna Lavania, Siddhant Singh, Alham Fikri Aji, Jacki O’Neill, Ashutosh Modi, Monojit Choudhury
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2024.

19. Unsupervised Human Preference Learning
    Sumuk Shashidhar, Abhinav Chinta, Vaibhav Sahai, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2024.

20. Large Language Models as User Agents for Evaluating Task-Oriented-Dialogue Systems
    Taaha Kazi, Ruiliang Lyu, Sizhe Zhou, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
    IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop. 2024.

21. Confidence Estimation for LLM-Based Dialogue State Tracking
    Yi-Jyun Sun, Suvodip Dey, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
    IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop. 2024.

22. Dialog Flow Induction for Constrainable LLM-Based Chatbots
    Stuti Agrawal, Nishi Uppuluri, Pranav Pillai, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Zoey Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Heng Ji
    Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). 2024.