arXiv AI
Aug 3
On the Generalization of Steering Vectors for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
arXiv:2607. 29062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model capabilities have improved in large part due to scaling chain of thought.
The Rise of Verbal Tics in Large Language Models: A Systematic Analysis Across Frontier Models
arXiv:2604. 19139v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve through alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Constitutional AI, a growing and increasingly conspicuous phenomenon has emerged: the proliferation of verbal tics--repetitive, formulaic linguistic patterns that pervade model outputs.
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OdysSim: Building Foundation Models for Human Behavior Simulation
arXiv:2606. 14199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as human simulators for interactive evaluation and social simulation.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
The AI Epistemic Deference Index: A Continuous Measure of Sycophancy
arXiv:2606. 07897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI models frequently exhibit epistemic sycophancy, endorsing claims to agree with a user.
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Pander Score: A Continuous Measure of Sycophancy as Epistemic Deference
arXiv:2606. 07897v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current AI models frequently exhibit epistemic sycophancy, endorsing claims to agree with a user.
arXiv AI
Jul 16
Left-right asymmetry in predicting brain activity from LLMs' representations emerges with their formal linguistic competence
arXiv:2602. 12811v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When humans and large language models (LLMs) process the same text, activations in the LLMs correlate with brain activity measured, e.
arXiv AI
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The Metacognitive Bottleneck: Japanese Riddles Reveal Fundamental Limits of Machine Insight and Self-Evaluation in Reasoning AI
arXiv:2509. 14704v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmark saturation and training-data contamination increasingly obscure whether reported gains in large language models (LLMs) reflect genuine advances in reasoning or familiarity with recurring patterns in benchmark problems.
arXiv AI
Jun 11
Causal Emotion Recognition in Conversation: Context Saturation and Discourse-Marker Evidence
arXiv:2601. 00181v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We address two persistent gaps in Emotion Recognition in Conversation: which modeling choices materially affect performance, and how recognition findings connect to interpretable discourse-level patterns.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
On the Limits of LLM Adaptability: Impact of Model-Internalized Priors on Annotation Task Performance
arXiv:2606. 00467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for zero-shot annotation and LLM-as-a-judge tasks, yet their reliability hinges on how model-internalized priors interact with user-provided instructions.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
Isolating LLM Lexical Bias: A Curation-Free Triangulated Metric for Preference-Stage Learning
arXiv:2606. 00334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Various language domains have undergone remarkable changes in recent years; these shifts are largely attributed to the advent of Large Language Models and their misalignment with natural language usage.
arXiv AI
Aug 7
Measuring and Detecting Harmful AI Sycophancy
arXiv:2608. 05624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophantic responses are becoming pervasive in large language models (LLMs), and prior work has pointed out that some of them could be harmful.
arXiv AI
Jun 3
Fully Automated Identification of Lexical Alignment and Preference-Stage Shifts in Large Language Models
arXiv:2606. 03165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The language used by digital chat assistants such as ChatGPT can diverge from human expectations (misalignment).
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Cognitive World Models for Process-Level Social Influence Evaluation
arXiv:2606. 29495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social influence dialogue changes user behavior by altering internal cognitive states.