@inproceedings{care,
  title = {{Do You CARE to Generalize? Extracting Robust Concept Directions from LLMs}},
  author = {Sweta Karlekar and Claudia Shi and Aahlad Manas Puli and Carolina Zheng and Maggie Makar and John Bowlan and Michal Kucer and David Blei},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2026},
  note = {Accepted; forthcoming}
}

@inproceedings{duel-evolve,
  title = {{Duel-Evolve: Reward-Free Test-Time Scaling via LLM Self-Preferences}},
  author = {Sweta Karlekar and Carolina Zheng and Magnus Saebo and Nicolas Beltran-Velez and Shuyang Yu and John Bowlan and Michal Kucer and David Blei},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {ICLR 2026 Workshop on Recursive Self Improvement (RSI)},
  eprint = {2602.21585},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21585}
}

@inproceedings{robust-representations,
  title = {{Extracting Representations in LLMs Robust to Distribution Shifts}},
  author = {Sweta Karlekar and Claudia Shi and Aahlad Manas Puli and Carolina Zheng and Maggie Makar and John Bowlan and Michal Kucer and David M. Blei},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {ICLR 2026 Workshop on Unifying Concept Representation Learning (UCRL)},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=KzH1cLVU1R}
}

@article{mechanistic-topic-models,
  title = {{Model Directions, Not Words: Mechanistic Topic Models Using Sparse Autoencoders}},
  author = {Carolina Zheng and Nicolas Beltran-Velez and Sweta Karlekar and Claudia Shi and Achille Nazaret and Asif Mallik and Amir Feder and David M. Blei},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  eprint = {2507.23220},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  note = {Presented at EMNLP 2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23220}
}

@inproceedings{hallucination-rate,
  title = {{Estimating the Hallucination Rate of Generative AI}},
  author = {Andrew Jesson and Nicolas Beltran-Velez and Quentin Chu and Sweta Karlekar and Jannik Kossen and Yarin Gal and John P. Cunningham and David Blei},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2024},
  url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/3791f5fc0e8e43730466afd2bcdb7493-Abstract-Conference.html}
}

@inproceedings{safecity,
  title = {{SafeCity: Understanding Diverse Forms of Sexual Harassment Personal Stories}},
  author = {Sweta Karlekar and Mohit Bansal},
  year = {2018},
  booktitle = {EMNLP 2018},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.04739.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{alzheimers-language,
  title = {{Detecting Linguistic Characteristics of Alzheimer’s Dementia by Interpreting Neural Models}},
  author = {Sweta Karlekar and Tong Niu and Mohit Bansal},
  year = {2018},
  booktitle = {NAACL 2018},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.06440.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{metoo-abuse-stories,
  title = {{\#MeToo: Neural Detection and Explanation of Language in Personal Abuse Stories}},
  author = {Sweta Karlekar and Mohit Bansal},
  year = {2018},
  booktitle = {NAACL WiNLP 2018},
  url = {https://www.cs.unc.edu/~mbansal/papers/winlp2018-karlekar-bansal.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{multispectral-tree-masking,
  title = {{Developing a Method to Mask Trees in Commercial Multispectral Imagery}},
  author = {S. J. Becker and C. S. T. Daughtry and D. Jain and S. S. Karlekar},
  year = {2015},
  booktitle = {American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2015},
  url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFM.B43C0569B}
}