From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning in Small Language Models with SocialRL
Wenyue Hua, Zezhou Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli Celikyilmaz
August 2026
arXiv | August 2026
Safoora Yousefi
Senior RSDE
Publications
-
-
-
-
Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Vidhisha Balachandran
ICLR 2026 | October 2025
-
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
-
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
-
-
-
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
-
Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering
Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi
ICLR 2025 | October 2024
-
-
-
From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning in Small Language Models with SocialRL
Wenyue Hua, Zezhou Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli Celikyilmaz
August 2026
arXiv | August 2026
-
Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Vidhisha Balachandran
ICLR 2026 | October 2025
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering
Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi
ICLR 2025 | October 2024
-
-
-
From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning in Small Language Models with SocialRL
Wenyue Hua, Zezhou Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli Celikyilmaz
August 2026
arXiv | August 2026
-
-
-
From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning in Small Language Models with SocialRL
Wenyue Hua, Zezhou Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli Celikyilmaz
August 2026
arXiv | August 2026
-
-
-
Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Vidhisha Balachandran
ICLR 2026 | October 2025
-
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
-
Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering
Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi
ICLR 2025 | October 2024
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
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
-