Vidhisha Balachandran

Phi-4-reasoning Technical Report

Marah Abdin, Sahaj Agarwal, Sahaj Agarwal, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Harkirat Behl, Lingjiao Chen (lingjiaochen), Gustavo de Rosa, Suriya Gunasekar, Mojan Javaheripi, Neel Joshi, Piero Kauffmann, Yash Lara, Caio César Teodoro Mendes, Arindam Mitra, Besmira Nushi, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Olli Saarikivi, Shital Shah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Vibhav Vineet, Yue Wu, Safoora Yousefi, Guoqing Zheng

April 2025

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Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Lingjiao Chen, Shivam Garg, Neel Joshi, Yash Lara, John Langford, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet, Yue Wu, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2025-16 | March 2025

Published by Microsoft

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Unearthing Skill-Level Insights for Understanding Trade-Offs of Foundation Models

Mazda Moayeri, Vidhisha Balachandran, Varun Chandrasekaran, Safoora Yousefi, Thomas Fel, S. Feizi, Besmira Nushi, Neel Joshi, Vibhav Vineet

ICLR 2025 | October 2024

DOI Publication Publication

Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi

ICLR 2025 | October 2024

DOI Publication Publication

EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Neel Joshi, Besmira Nushi, Hamid Palangi, Eduardo Salinas, Vibhav Vineet, James Woffinden-Luey, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2024-33 | September 2024

Published by Microsoft

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The Art of Saying No: Contextual Noncompliance in Language Models

Faeze Brahman, Sachin Kumar, Vidhisha Balachandran, Pradeep Dasigi, Valentina Pyatkin, Abhilasha Ravichander, Sarah Wiegreffe, Nouha Dziri, K. Chandu, Jack Hessel, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi, Hanna Hajishirzi, Vidhisha Balachandran

NeurIPS 2024 | July 2024

DOI Publication Publication

MEDIQ: Question-Asking LLMs for Adaptive and Reliable Clinical Reasoning

Shuyue Stella Li, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shangbin Feng, Jonathan Ilgen, Emma Pierson, Pang Wei Koh, Yulia Tsvetkov

NeurIPS 2024 | June 2024

DOI Publication Publication

Phi-4-reasoning Technical Report

Marah Abdin, Sahaj Agarwal, Sahaj Agarwal, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Harkirat Behl, Lingjiao Chen (lingjiaochen), Gustavo de Rosa, Suriya Gunasekar, Mojan Javaheripi, Neel Joshi, Piero Kauffmann, Yash Lara, Caio César Teodoro Mendes, Arindam Mitra, Besmira Nushi, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Olli Saarikivi, Shital Shah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Vibhav Vineet, Yue Wu, Safoora Yousefi, Guoqing Zheng

April 2025

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Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Lingjiao Chen, Shivam Garg, Neel Joshi, Yash Lara, John Langford, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet, Yue Wu, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2025-16 | March 2025

Published by Microsoft

Publication Github

Unearthing Skill-Level Insights for Understanding Trade-Offs of Foundation Models

Mazda Moayeri, Vidhisha Balachandran, Varun Chandrasekaran, Safoora Yousefi, Thomas Fel, S. Feizi, Besmira Nushi, Neel Joshi, Vibhav Vineet

ICLR 2025 | October 2024

DOI Publication Publication

Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi

ICLR 2025 | October 2024

DOI Publication Publication

EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Neel Joshi, Besmira Nushi, Hamid Palangi, Eduardo Salinas, Vibhav Vineet, James Woffinden-Luey, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2024-33 | September 2024

Published by Microsoft

Preprint Github

The Art of Saying No: Contextual Noncompliance in Language Models

Faeze Brahman, Sachin Kumar, Vidhisha Balachandran, Pradeep Dasigi, Valentina Pyatkin, Abhilasha Ravichander, Sarah Wiegreffe, Nouha Dziri, K. Chandu, Jack Hessel, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi, Hanna Hajishirzi, Vidhisha Balachandran

NeurIPS 2024 | July 2024

DOI Publication Publication

MEDIQ: Question-Asking LLMs for Adaptive and Reliable Clinical Reasoning

Shuyue Stella Li, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shangbin Feng, Jonathan Ilgen, Emma Pierson, Pang Wei Koh, Yulia Tsvetkov

NeurIPS 2024 | June 2024

DOI Publication Publication

MEDIQ: Question-Asking LLMs for Adaptive and Reliable Clinical Reasoning

Shuyue Stella Li, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shangbin Feng, Jonathan Ilgen, Emma Pierson, Pang Wei Koh, Yulia Tsvetkov

NeurIPS 2024 | June 2024

DOI Publication Publication

EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Neel Joshi, Besmira Nushi, Hamid Palangi, Eduardo Salinas, Vibhav Vineet, James Woffinden-Luey, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2024-33 | September 2024

Published by Microsoft

Preprint Github

EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Neel Joshi, Besmira Nushi, Hamid Palangi, Eduardo Salinas, Vibhav Vineet, James Woffinden-Luey, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2024-33 | September 2024

Published by Microsoft

Preprint Github

Phi-4-reasoning Technical Report

Marah Abdin, Sahaj Agarwal, Sahaj Agarwal, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Harkirat Behl, Lingjiao Chen (lingjiaochen), Gustavo de Rosa, Suriya Gunasekar, Mojan Javaheripi, Neel Joshi, Piero Kauffmann, Yash Lara, Caio César Teodoro Mendes, Arindam Mitra, Besmira Nushi, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Olli Saarikivi, Shital Shah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Vibhav Vineet, Yue Wu, Safoora Yousefi, Guoqing Zheng

April 2025

PDF

Unearthing Skill-Level Insights for Understanding Trade-Offs of Foundation Models

Mazda Moayeri, Vidhisha Balachandran, Varun Chandrasekaran, Safoora Yousefi, Thomas Fel, S. Feizi, Besmira Nushi, Neel Joshi, Vibhav Vineet

ICLR 2025 | October 2024

DOI Publication Publication

Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi

ICLR 2025 | October 2024

DOI Publication Publication

The Art of Saying No: Contextual Noncompliance in Language Models

Faeze Brahman, Sachin Kumar, Vidhisha Balachandran, Pradeep Dasigi, Valentina Pyatkin, Abhilasha Ravichander, Sarah Wiegreffe, Nouha Dziri, K. Chandu, Jack Hessel, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi, Hanna Hajishirzi, Vidhisha Balachandran

NeurIPS 2024 | July 2024

DOI Publication Publication

MEDIQ: Question-Asking LLMs for Adaptive and Reliable Clinical Reasoning

Shuyue Stella Li, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shangbin Feng, Jonathan Ilgen, Emma Pierson, Pang Wei Koh, Yulia Tsvetkov

NeurIPS 2024 | June 2024

DOI Publication Publication

Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Lingjiao Chen, Shivam Garg, Neel Joshi, Yash Lara, John Langford, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet, Yue Wu, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2025-16 | March 2025

Published by Microsoft

Publication Github

EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Neel Joshi, Besmira Nushi, Hamid Palangi, Eduardo Salinas, Vibhav Vineet, James Woffinden-Luey, Safoora Yousefi

MSR-TR-2024-33 | September 2024

Published by Microsoft

Preprint Github