Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Harkirat Behl, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
August 2025
Vidhisha Balachandran
Senior Researcher
Publications
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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
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Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering
Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi
ICLR 2025 | October 2024
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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
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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
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Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Harkirat Behl, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
August 2025
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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
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Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering
Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi
ICLR 2025 | October 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Harkirat Behl, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
August 2025
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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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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
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Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering
Alessandro Stolfo, Vidhisha Balachandran, Safoora Yousefi, Eric Horvitz, Besmira Nushi
ICLR 2025 | October 2024
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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
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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
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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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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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