Samee Arif

Ph.D. student at @UMichCSE, adviced by @radamihalcea. Learning and working on AI. Wants to get lost in the mountains with a good book and a cup of coffee.

[Naihao(Neo) Deng @NaihaoDeng]

🚨 Excited to share that our paper "One Example Is Enough to Pass Fairness Benchmarks: Rethinking Fairness Evaluation for Aligned LLMs" has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Main)! 🎉

[Joan Nwatu @_agirlyengineer]

🌎 A dataset says it covers Spanish. But whose Spanish?
Spanish is spoken across Spain and much of Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina and beyond. Yet an NLP dataset labeled simply “Spanish” may contain data representing only a small subset of those countries.

[Angana Borah @AnganaBorah2]

Happy to share that this work has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main! 🤗

[Naihao(Neo) Deng @NaihaoDeng]

Happy to share that our paper has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 (main). #EMNLP #NLP

[Samee Arif @sameearif]

Excited to share that our paper has been accepted to EMNLP!

TL;DR: We introduce KIDBench to evaluate whether LLM responses to children are age-appropriate, emotionally supportive, culturally aligned, and robust across multi-turn conversations.

Paper: https://t.co/VLn8277cWC

[Samee Arif @sameearif]

A small reflection on how the universe, through its patterns, gravity, stardust, light, uncertainty, time, and laws, can quietly teach us something about ourselves.

Link: https://t.co/NAYZ3hfy0W

[Samee Arif @sameearif]

Part II of my CPU/GPU blog.

This one looks inside a core, how tiny switches become a system that can fetch, understand, and run instructions.

Link: https://t.co/PZqxRMuyZV

[Samee Arif @sameearif]

I just published a guide to graduate applications, built from advice and experiences shared by students across different application cycles.

Thank you to everyone who shared their insights and made this possible!

Link: https://t.co/MH6AmjnCHT

[Samee Arif @sameearif]

Loss is not only something we feel. It is something the mind slowly learns to live around.

A small essay on memory, attachment, grief, absence, and the strange science of being human.

Blog: https://t.co/lRyO68cm5J

[Samee Arif @sameearif]

Excited to share that our paper has been accepted to COLM 2026!

LLM safety isn’t only about the final prompt. Path matters.

We introduce ICD, a trajectory-based jailbreak strategy showing how small continuations can progressively weaken safety.

Paper: https://t.co/CQc4DjggOd

[Samee Arif @sameearif]

I’ve started a small blog, Dumplings.

The first post explores Planck’s constant visually, and the second reflects on my first year of Ph.D.

Read About Dumplings to see what the blog is meant to be. I’m planning a visual Calculus series next.

https://t.co/1ntJq8jXu6