LLMs

The Role of Implicit and Explicit Demographic Signals in Large Language Model-based Student Assessment

A controlled study of how explicit and implicit demographic cues affect large language model scoring, feedback, and question answering in educational assessment.

SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors

SimBench provides a standardized benchmark for evaluating how faithfully large language models simulate human behavior across diverse social and behavioral tasks.

Do Large Language Models Adapt to Language Variation across Socioeconomic Status?

LLMs adapt only weakly to socioeconomic language variation and more closely reproduce higher-status styles.

The Pluralistic Moral Gap: Understanding Moral Judgment and Value Differences between Humans and Large Language Models

People increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) for moral advice, which may influence humans' decisions. Yet, little is known about how closely LLMs align with human moral judgments. To address this, we introduce the Moral Dilemma Dataset, a …

No for Some, Yes for Others: Persona Prompts and Other Sources of False Refusal in Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into our daily lives and personalized. However, LLM personalization might also increase unintended side effects. Recent work suggests that persona prompting can lead models to falsely refuse …

What Is The Political Content in LLMs' Pre- and Post-Training Data?

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate politically biased text. Yet, it remains unclear how such biases arise, making it difficult to design effective mitigation strategies. We hypothesize that these biases are rooted in the composition …

Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification?

We introduce Co-DETECT (Collaborative Discovery of Edge cases in TExt ClassificaTion), a novel mixed-initiative annotation framework that integrates human expertise with automatic annotation guided by large language models (LLMs). Co-DETECT starts …

Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children’s Stories?

Stories play a pivotal role in human communication, shaping beliefs and morals, particularly in children. As parents increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to craft bedtime stories, the presence of cultural and gender stereotypes in these …

Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings

Are Large Language Models for Education Reliable for All Languages?

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted in educational settings. These applications expand beyond English, though current LLMs remain primarily English-centric. In this work, we ascertain if their use in education settings in …