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Publications (7)

cs.SD2025

Synthetic Audio Helps for Cognitive State Tasks

Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Peter Zeng +1

The NLP community has broadly focused on text-only approaches of cognitive state tasks, but audio can provide vital missing cues through prosody. We posit that text-to-speech model…

cs.CL2026

Implicit vs. Explicit Prompting Strategies for LVLMs in Referential Communication

Peter Zeng, Amie J. Paige, Weiling Li +3

Two recent studies (Jones et al. (2026); Zeng et al. (2026)) reach apparently contradictory conclusions about whether LVLMs can coordinate on efficient referring expressions. We co…

cs.CL2026

LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication

Peter Zeng, Weiling Li, Amie J. Paige +6

For generative AI agents to partner effectively with human users, the ability to accurately predict human intent is critical. But this ability to collaborate remains limited by a c…

cs.CL2024

Views Are My Own, but Also Yours: Benchmarking Theory of Mind Using Common Ground

Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Arash Yousefi Jordehi +4

Evaluating the theory of mind (ToM) capabilities of language models (LMs) has recently received a great deal of attention. However, many existing benchmarks rely on synthetic data,…

cs.CL2025

Residualized Similarity for Faithfully Explainable Authorship Verification

Peter Zeng, Pegah Alipoormolabashi, Jihu Mun +5

Responsible use of Authorship Verification (AV) systems not only requires high accuracy but also interpretable solutions. More importantly, for systems to be used to make decisions…

cs.CL2025

XAM: Interactive Explainability for Authorship Attribution Models

Milad Alshomary, Anisha Bhatnagar, Peter Zeng +3

We present IXAM, an Interactive eXplainability framework for Authorship Attribution Models. Given an authorship attribution (AA) task and an embedding-based AA model, our tool enab…