arXiv:2603. 27435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate comprehensive, knowledge-intensive reports.
By Xinran Zhao, Aakanksha Naik, Jay DeYoung, Joseph Chee Chang, Jena D. Hwang, Tongshuang Wu, Varsha Kishore
arXiv:2609.23178v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Language models are appealing tools for research on the past. But to trust the evidence a model provides, researchers need to know whether its response...
By Ted Underwood, Ziliang Qiu, Sarah Griebel, Laura K. Nelson, Edwin Roland, Wenyi Shang, Matthew Wilkens
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used to assist writing, but this study shows they alter both tone and meaning of human text. A user study found that heavy LLM use increased neutral essays by nearly 70% and made writers feel less creative and less in their voice. Even when prompted to make only grammar edits, LLMs changed the semantic content of essays and produced AI-generated scientific reviews that were less focused on clarity and significance and scored higher on average.
By Marwa Abdulhai, Isadora White, Yanming Wan, Ibrahim Qureshi, Joel Z. Leibo, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Natasha Jaques
arXiv:2606. 04906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although it is generally agreed that AI-generated text poses a broad societal risk, there is no common understanding in the AI-generated text detection literature on what constitutes harmful use.
By Nils Dycke, Marina Sakharova, Nico Daheim, Iryna Gurevych
Large language model agents have shown strong capabilities in generating coherent and contextually appropriate responses, yet robust long-horizon dialogue remains limited by the lack of external memory that is traceable, updatable, and diagnostically transparent. Existing memory-augmented agents often store memories as isolated records or overwritable states, making it difficult to preserve how information originates, evolves, conflicts, or becomes obsolete over time.
The study investigates how large language models encode rhetorical questions by applying linear probes to two social‑media datasets. It finds that rhetorical signals appear early in the model’s representations, are most stable in last‑token embeddings, and can be distinguished from information‑seeking questions with AUROC 0.7–0.8 even across datasets. However, probes trained on different datasets rank target instances differently, revealing that multiple, distinct linear directions capture various rhetorical cues rather than a single shared representation.
By Louie Hong Yao, Vishesh Anand, Yuan Zhuang, Tianyu Jiang