20 papers
Querying Multimodal Scientific Papers with AI: Practices and Preferences Across Blind, Low-Vision, and Sighted Scientists
Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Lucy Lu Wang, Joseph Chee Chang +1
Visual diagrams, figures, and tables are central to scientific papers, and convey information beyond what is captured in text. While blind or low-vision (BLV) scientists have tradi…
Agentic Abstention: Do Agents Know When to Stop Instead of Act?
Han Luo, Bingbing Wen, Lucy Lu Wang
LLM agents are expected to act over multiple turns, using search, browsing interfaces, and terminal tools to complete user goals. Yet not every goal is well specified or achievable…
Illusions of the Gold Standard: A Large-scale Analysis of Human Evaluation Protocols for Long-form Text Generation
Katelyn Xiaoying Mei, Yi-Li Hsu, Minjoon Choi +5
Human evaluation plays a critical role in assessing the quality of generated text. However, the reliability and reproducibility of these evaluations depend on transparent and well-…
ReLay: Personalized LLM-Generated Plain-Language Summaries for Better Understanding, but at What Cost?
Joey Chan, Yikun Han, Jingyuan Chen +8
Plain Language Summaries (PLS) aim to make research accessible to lay readers, but they are typically written in a one-size-fits-all style that ignores differences in readers' info…
ReFinE: Streamlining UI Mockup Iteration with Research Findings
Donghoon Shin, Bingcan Guo, Jaewook Lee +2
Although HCI research papers offer valuable design insights, designers often struggle to apply them in design workflows due to difficulties in finding relevant literature, understa…
MixAtlas: Uncertainty-aware Data Mixture Optimization for Multimodal LLM Midtraining
Bingbing Wen, Sirajul Salekin, Feiyang Kang +4
Domain reweighting can improve sample efficiency and downstream generalization, but data-mixture optimization for multimodal midtraining remains largely unexplored. Current multimo…