Mubashara Akhtar

Postdoc, AI Center, ETHZ - ETH Zurich

Joined

November 2021

Names

Mubashara Akhtar (Preferred)

Emails

****@kcl.ac.uk (Confirmed)

****@inf.ethz.ch (Confirmed)

****@ai.ethz.ch (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Postdoc

AI Center, ETHZ - ETH Zurich (ethz.ch)

2025 – Present

PhD student

Department of Informatics, King's College London (kcl.ac.uk)

2020 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Mrinmaya Sachan

2025 – Present

PhD Advisor

Elena Simperl

2020 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Oana Cocarascu

2020 – 2024

Expertise

multimodality

Present

evaluation

benchmarking

datasets

Present

AI Safety

responsible ai

Present

Automated fact checking

fake news detection

2020 – 2024

Semi-structured data

tabular data

2020 – 2024

Publications

Efficient Test-Time Scaling of Multi-Step Reasoning by Probing Internal States of Large Language Models
Jingwei Ni, Ekaterina Fadeeva, Tianyi Wu, Mubashara Akhtar, Jiaheng Zhang, Elliott Ash, Markus Leippold, Timothy Baldwin, See-Kiong Ng, Artem Shelmanov, Mrinmaya Sachan
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
Efficient Test-Time Scaling of Multi-Step Reasoning by Probing Internal States of Large Language Models
Jingwei Ni, Ekaterina Fadeeva, Tianyi Wu, Mubashara Akhtar, Jiaheng Zhang, Elliott Ash, Markus Leippold, Timothy Baldwin, See-Kiong Ng, Artem Shelmanov, Mrinmaya Sachan
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Reasoning with Confidence: Efficient Verification of LLM Reasoning Steps via Uncertainty Heads
Jingwei Ni, Ekaterina Fadeeva, Tianyi Wu, Mubashara Akhtar, Jiaheng Zhang, Elliott Ash, Markus Leippold, Timothy Baldwin, See-Kiong Ng, Artem Shelmanov, Mrinmaya Sachan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
Yu Fan, Jingwei Ni, Jakob Merane, Yang Tian, Yoan Hermstrüwer, Yinya Huang, Mubashara Akhtar, Etienne Salimbeni, Florian Geering, Oliver Dreyer, Daniel Brunner, Markus Leippold, Mrinmaya Sachan, Alexander Stremitzer, Christoph Engel, Elliott Ash, Joel Niklaus
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Compose and Fuse: Revisiting the Foundational Bottlenecks in Multimodal Reasoning
Yucheng Wang, Yifan Hou, Aydin Javadov, Mubashara Akhtar, Mrinmaya Sachan
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Who Measures What Matters? An Analysis of Social Impact Evaluations in Foundation Model Reporting
Anka Reuel, Avijit Ghosh, Jenny Chim, Srishti Yadav, Usman Gohar, Jennifer Mickel, Andrew Tran, Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi, Mowafak Allaham, Hossein A. Rahmani, Mubashara Akhtar, Felix Friedrich, Robert Scholz, Michael Alexander Riegler, Jan Batzner, Eliya Habba, Arushi Saxena, Anastassia Kornilova, Kevin Wei, Prajna Soni et al. (13 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Chimera: Diagnosing Shortcut Learning in Visual-Language Understanding
Ziheng Chi, Yifan Hou, Chenxi Pang, Shaobo Cui, Mubashara Akhtar, Mrinmaya Sachan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Chimera: Revisiting Shortcut Learning by Vision-Language Models for Diagram Understanding
Ziheng Chi, Yifan Hou, Chenxi Pang, Shaobo Cui, Mubashara Akhtar, Mrinmaya Sachan
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track
- Readers: Everyone
AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons
Shaona Ghosh, Heather Frase, Adina Williams, Sarah Luger, Paul Röttger, Fazl Barez, Sean McGregor, Kenneth Fricklas, Mala Kumar, Quentin Feuillade--Montixi, Kurt Bollacker, Felix Friedrich, Ryan Tsang, Bertie Vidgen, Alicia Parrish, Chris Knotz, Eleonora Presani, Jonathan Bennion, Marisa Ferrara Boston, Mike Kuniavsky et al. (81 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Croissant: A Metadata Format for ML-Ready Datasets
Mubashara Akhtar, Omar Benjelloun, Costanza Conforti, Luca Foschini, Joan Giner-Miguelez, Pieter Gijsbers, Sujata Goswami, Nitisha Jain, Michalis Karamousadakis, Michael Kuchnik, Satyapriya Krishna, Sylvain Lesage, Quentin Lhoest, Pierre Marcenac, Manil Maskey, Peter Mattson, Luis Oala, Hamidah Oderinwale, Pierre Ruyssen, Tim Santos et al. (11 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

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