arXiv Computation and Language

Finding Common Ground: Graded Communal Knowledge in Bluesky Starter Packs

The paper investigates how shared community affiliations, measured via Bluesky starter packs, correlate with common ground between users. By analyzing 191,648 user pairs, it finds that lexical similarity—used as a proxy for common ground—increases monotonically with the number of shared starter packs, especially when those packs represent distinct topical communities. The study also shows that this effect is independent of network proximity, indicating that community membership is a distinct, measurable carrier of common ground.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

RedditPersona: A Modular Framework for Community-Conditioned LLM Adaptation from Reddit

arXiv:2606. 06027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Community-conditioned language model adaptation requires choices about data collection, community definition, and evaluation that are currently made independently in each study, making it hard to compare assumptions or reuse artifacts.

By Amirhossein Ghaffari, Ali Goodarzi, Huong Nguyen, Simo Hosio, Lauri Lov\'en, Ekaterina Gilman
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

Where Does Social Reasoning Come From? Capability Provenance in Language Models

arXiv:2606. 19625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We use training-data attribution as an interpretable tool for capability discovery, mapping which regions of the pretraining corpus support social-reasoning versus STEM-reasoning in OLMo3-7B.

By Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom, Mika Okamoto, Rayan Castilla, Louis Jaburi, Alvin Deng, Taywon Min, Lucia Quirke, Stella Biderman, Mark Riedl
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 19625v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We use training-data attribution as an interpretable tool for capability discovery, mapping which regions of the pretraining corpus support social-reasoning versus STEM-reasoning in OLMo3-7B.

By Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom, Mika Okamoto, Rayan Castilla, Louis Jaburi, Alvin Deng, Taywon Min, Lucia Quirke, Stella Biderman, Mark Riedl
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Paid Voices vs. Public Feeds: Interpretable Cross-Platform Theme-Based Analysis of Climate Discourse

arXiv:2601. 13317v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Climate discourse online shapes public understanding of climate change and informs political and policy debate, yet it unfolds across structurally different environments: paid advertising platforms host targeted, institutionally produced messaging, while public social media reflects largely organic, user-driven discussion.

By Samantha Sudhoff, Pranav Perumal, Zhaoqing Wu, Tunazzina Islam
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Language-encoded network topology enables large language models to reason about complex networks

The paper introduces BioGlyph, a method that translates network topology into a language of structural roles such as hubs, community cores, and cross-community connectors. By encoding these roles in a universal, interpretable vocabulary, BioGlyph allows large language models to answer structural reasoning questions about networks more accurately—improving system accuracy by up to 26 percentage points compared to edge-based or numerical representations. Experiments across twenty networks in five domains show the approach is especially effective for dense, community-structured networks and reveals biologically meaningful patterns in a budding-yeast protein-interaction network.

By Ucchwas Talukder Utsha, Sakib Mostafa, James Zou, Md Tauhidul Islam
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 10

Factions Within, Uncertain Across: Within-Document Reader Sub-Groups in Social Highlighting

When many people highlight the same document, is the crowd a single consensus, or is it internally structured into reader sub-groups that mark different things -- and is that structure a stable property of a reader or of the document? Building on prior work showing an individual's within-document highlighting signal is a whisper while individuality lives in selection, we ask the group-level question on a co-readership platform using a margin-preserving curveball null.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

How Agents Represent Humans: Human-Directed Stereotypes in an Open Agent Social Network

The paper investigates how large language model agents on the open platform Moltbook represent humans, focusing on human-directed stereotypes. Using an annotation framework with four dimensions—morality, friendliness, competence, and autonomy—and a subtype scheme for other attributions, the study finds that competence is the dominant evaluation, while many other attributions describe humans as epistemic, cultural, or embodied subjects. The authors also analyze how these representations appear in narrative contexts and platform-level circulation, noting that community feedback is better explained by exposure, author visibility, and content selection rather than stable insider–outsider dynamics.

By Huangchen Xu, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Mapping the Emerging Social Science of Large Language Models

The paper maps the nascent social‑science literature on large language models (LLMs) by analysing 198 curated papers and 47,719 field‑scale papers. It identifies three main domains—LLM as Social Minds, LLM Societies, and LLM‑Human Interactions—each containing 13 subcategories such as reasoning, bias, collective intelligence, and trust. The taxonomy is validated through clustering stability, author classification agreement, and topic mapping, revealing differing prominence across conference and journal venues.

By Yi Yang, Xiao Jia, Zeyun Dong, Chenzhang Wang, Zhanzhan Zhao