I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, advised by Prof. Yoav Goldberg.

I’m interested in the mechanics of reasoning.

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Selected papers

• Compared to What? Baselines and Metrics for Counterfactual Prompting
  Zihao Yang, Mosh Levy, Yoav Goldberg, Byron C. Wallace
  Under review (2026)
  Paper

• State over Tokens: Characterizing the Role of Reasoning Tokens
  Mosh Levy, Zohar Elyoseph, Shauli Ravfogel, Yoav Goldberg
  Under review (2025)
  Paper Blog post

• Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts
  Mosh Levy, Zohar Elyoseph, Yoav Goldberg
  Under review (2025)
  Paper Demo

• Same Task, More Tokens: the Impact of Input Length on the Reasoning Performance of Large Language Models
  Mosh Levy, Alon Jacoby, Yoav Goldberg
  Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024)
  🏆 Outstanding Paper Award
  Paper

• Clever Hans or Neural Theory of Mind? Stress Testing Social Reasoning in Large Language Models
  Natalie Shapira, Mosh Levy, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Xuhui Zhou, Yejin Choi, Yoav Goldberg, Maarten Sap, Vered Shwartz
  European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024)
  Paper

• Guiding LLM to Fool Itself: Automatically Manipulating Machine Reading Comprehension Shortcut Triggers
  Mosh Levy, Shauli Ravfogel, Yoav Goldberg
  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP 2023)
  Paper

• Ranking the Transferability of Adversarial Examples
  Mosh Levy, Guy Amit, Yuval Elovici, Yisroel Mirsky
  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST 2024)
  Paper

• The Security of Deep Learning Defenses in Medical Imaging
  Mosh Levy, Guy Amit, Yuval Elovici, Yisroel Mirsky
  ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (HealthSec 2024)
  Paper