Sycophancy Hides Linearly in the Attention Heads.

Hilal AlQuabeh Rifo Ahmad Genadi Munachiso Nwadike Nurdaulet Mukhituly Tatsuya Hiraoka Hilal AlQuabeh Kentaro Inui Sycophancy Hides Linearly in the Attention Heads. EACL (Volume 1: Long Papers) 2026 6896-6912 conf/eacl/2026-1 https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.324 https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.324/ db/conf/eacl/eacl2026-1.html#GenadiNMHAI26 streams/conf/eacl

Rifo Ahmad Genadi Munachiso Nwadike Nurdaulet Mukhituly Hilal AlQuabeh Tatsuya Hiraoka Kentaro Inui Sycophancy Hides Linearly in the Attention Heads. 2026 January abs/2601.16644 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.16644 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-16644 streams/journals/corr

Ruben Solozabal Velibor Bojkovic Hilal AlQuabeh Klea Ziu Kentaro Inui Martin Takác 0001 WaveSSM: Multiscale State-Space Models for Non-stationary Signal Attention. 2026 February abs/2602.22266 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.22266 db/journals/corr/corr2602.html#abs-2602-22266 streams/journals/corr

Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti Abzal Nurgazy Hilal AlQuabeh Nikolai Rozanov Kentaro Inui The Count Is There, but Misaligned: Understanding and Correcting Counting Failures in VLMs. 2026 July abs/2607.09544 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.09544 db/journals/corr/corr2607.html#abs-2607-09544 streams/journals/corr

Bin Gu 0001 Hilal AlQuabeh William de Vazelhes Zhouyuan Huo Heng Huang 0001 Stagewise Training With Exponentially Growing Training Sets. 6148-6158 2025 April 36 IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2024.3402108 db/journals/tnn/tnn36.html#GuAVHH25 streams/journals/tnn

Munachiso Nwadike Zangir Iklassov Toluwani Aremu Tatsuya Hiraoka Benjamin Heinzerling Velibor Bojkovic Hilal AlQuabeh Martin Takác 0001 Kentaro Inui Library-Like Behavior In Language Models is Enhanced by Self-Referencing Causal Cycles. 25365-25377 2025 ACL (1) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1232 https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1232/ conf/acl/2025-1 db/conf/acl/acl2025-1.html#NwadikeIAHHBA0I25 Bhaskar Mukhoty Hilal AlQuabeh Bin Gu 0001 Improving Generalization and Robustness in SNNs Through Signed Rate Encoding and Sparse Encoding Attacks. 2025 ICLR https://openreview.net/forum?id=qLh6Ufvnuc conf/iclr/2025 db/conf/iclr/iclr2025.html#MukhotyA025 Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti Tatsuya Hiraoka Hilal AlQuabeh Benjamin Heinzerling Kentaro Inui The Geometry of Numerical Reasoning: Language Models Compare Numeric Properties in Linear Subspaces. 550-561 2025 NAACL (Short Papers) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-short.47 https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-short.47/ conf/naacl/2025-2 db/conf/naacl/naacl2025-2.html#ElShangitiHAHI25 streams/conf/naacl Ruben Solozabal Velibor Bojkovic Hilal AlQuabeh Kentaro Inui Martin Takác 0001 Uncovering the Spectral Bias in Diagonal State Space Models. 2025 NeurIPS http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/hash/374050dc3f211267bd6bf0ea24eae184-Abstract-Conference.html conf/nips/2025 db/conf/nips/neurips2025.html#SolozabalBAIT25

H. V. AlquBoj Hilal AlQuabeh Velibor Bojkovic Tatsuya Hiraoka Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti Munachiso Nwadike Kentaro Inui Number Representations in LLMs: A Computational Parallel to Human Perception. 2025 February abs/2502.16147 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.16147 db/journals/corr/corr2502.html#abs-2502-16147 streams/journals/corr

H. V. AlquBoj Hilal AlQuabeh Velibor Bojkovic Munachiso Nwadike Kentaro Inui Mechanistic Insights into Grokking from the Embedding Layer. 2025 May abs/2505.15624 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.15624 db/journals/corr/corr2505.html#abs-2505-15624 streams/journals/corr

Muhammad Cendekia Airlangga Hilal AlQuabeh Munachiso Nwadike Kentaro Inui Emergence of Primacy and Recency Effect in Mamba: A Mechanistic Point of View. 2025 June abs/2506.15156 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.15156 db/journals/corr/corr2506.html#abs-2506-15156 streams/journals/corr

Ruben Solozabal Velibor Bojkovic Hilal AlQuabeh Kentaro Inui Martin Takác 0001 Uncovering the Spectral Bias in Diagonal State Space Models. 2025 August abs/2508.20441 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.20441 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-20441 streams/journals/corr

Virendra Nishad Bhaskar Mukhoty Hilal AlQuabeh Sandeep K. Shukla Sayak Ray Chowdhury Constrained Adversarial Perturbation. 2025 October abs/2510.15699 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.15699 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-15699 streams/journals/corr

Hilal AlQuabeh William de Vazelhes Bin Gu 0001 Limited Memory Online Gradient Descent for Kernelized Pairwise Learning with Dynamic Averaging. 10821-10828 2024 AAAI https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i10.28955 conf/aaai/2024 db/conf/aaai/aaai2024.html#AlQuabehV024 Dilshod Azizov Zain Muhammad Mujahid Hilal AlQuabeh Preslav Nakov Shangsong Liang SAFARI: Cross-lingual Bias and Factuality Detection in News Media and News Articles. 12217-12231 2024 EMNLP (Findings) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.712 https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.712 conf/emnlp/2024f db/conf/emnlp/emnlp2024f.html#AzizovMANL24 Bhaskar Mukhoty Hilal AlQuabeh Giulia De Masi Huan Xiong Bin Gu 0001 Certified Adversarial Robustness for Rate Encoded Spiking Neural Networks. 2024 ICLR https://openreview.net/forum?id=5bNYf0CqxY conf/iclr/2024 db/conf/iclr/iclr2024.html#MukhotyAMX024

Hilal AlQuabeh William de Vazelhes Bin Gu 0001 Limited Memory Online Gradient Descent for Kernelized Pairwise Learning with Dynamic Averaging. 2024 abs/2402.01146 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.01146 db/journals/corr/corr2402.html#abs-2402-01146

Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti Tatsuya Hiraoka Hilal AlQuabeh Benjamin Heinzerling Kentaro Inui The Geometry of Numerical Reasoning: Language Models Compare Numeric Properties in Linear Subspaces. 2024 abs/2410.13194 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.13194 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-13194 streams/journals/corr

Hilal AlQuabeh Bhaskar Mukhoty Bin Gu 0001 Variance Reduced Online Gradient Descent for Kernelized Pairwise Learning with Limited Memory. 28-43 2023 ACML https://proceedings.mlr.press/v222/alquabeh24a.html conf/acml/2023 db/conf/acml/acml2023.html#AlQuabehM023 Dilshod Azizov Jiyong Li Hilal AlQuabeh Shangsong Liang Advanced NLP Techniques for Summarizing Multilingual Financial Narratives from Global Annual Reports. 2802-2804 2023 IEEE Big Data https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386621 conf/bigdataconf/2023 db/conf/bigdataconf/bigdataconf2023.html#AzizovLAL23 Jiyong Li Dilshod Azizov Hilal AlQuabeh Shangsong Liang Lotus at WojoodNER Shared Task: Multilingual Transformers: Unveiling Flat and Nested Entity Recognition. 765-770 2023 ArabicNLP https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.85 https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.85 conf/wanlp/2023 db/conf/wanlp/arabicnlp2023.html#LiAAL23

Hilal AlQuabeh Bhaskar Mukhoty Bin Gu 0001 Variance Reduced Online Gradient Descent for Kernelized Pairwise Learning with Limited Memory. 2023 abs/2310.06483 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.06483 db/journals/corr/corr2310.html#abs-2310-06483

Hilal AlQuabeh Aliakbar Abdurahimov Pairwise Learning via Stagewise Training in Proximal Setting. 2022 abs/2208.04075 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.04075 db/journals/corr/corr2208.html#abs-2208-04075

Hilal AlQuabeh Farha AlBreiki Computational Complexity of Sub-linear Convergent Algorithms. 2022 abs/2209.14558 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.14558 db/journals/corr/corr2209.html#abs-2209-14558

Hilal AlQuabeh Ameera Bawazeer Abdulateef Alhashmi Investigating a Baseline Of Self Supervised Learning Towards Reducing Labeling Costs For Image Classification. 2021 abs/2108.07464 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07464 db/journals/corr/corr2108.html#abs-2108-07464

Aliakbar Abdurahimov Muhammad Cendekia Airlangga Farha AlBreiki Abdulateef Alhashmi H. V. AlquBoj Toluwani Aremu Dilshod Azizov Ameera Bawazeer Velibor Bojkovic Sayak Ray Chowdhury Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti Rifo Ahmad Genadi Bin Gu 0001 Benjamin Heinzerling Tatsuya Hiraoka Heng Huang 0001 Zhouyuan Huo Zangir Iklassov Kentaro Inui Jiyong Li Shangsong Liang Giulia De Masi Zain Muhammad Mujahid Nurdaulet Mukhituly Bhaskar Mukhoty Preslav Nakov Virendra Nishad Abzal Nurgazy Munachiso Nwadike Nikolai Rozanov Sandeep K. Shukla Ruben Solozabal Martin Takác 0001 William de Vazelhes Huan Xiong Klea Ziu