arXiv AI

Expectation Alignment of Language Models for Real-World User Expectations

arXiv:2607. 20485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on standard benchmarks, yet it remains largely unexplored whether they truly meet user expectations.

arXiv AI
Aug 5

Emulate or Estimate? The Divergent Strengths of Base and Post-Trained Language Models for Opinion Simulation

arXiv:2608. 03044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to simulate human opinions, but prior work reports conflicting results: some studies find promising alignment with human survey data, while others find persona collapse and weak demographic sensitivity.

By Seth Grief-Albert, Jessica Bo, Difan Jiao, Ashton Anderson