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most citedVerbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

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Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

Jiayi Zhang, Simon Yu, Derek Chong +4

The paper identifies typicality bias in preference data as a key cause of mode collapse in aligned large language models and introduces Verbalized Sampling, a training‑free prompti…

cs.CL2026

Change My View? The Dynamics of Persuasion and Polarization in Online Discourse

David Freeborn, Malihe Alikani, Anthony Sicilia

Philosophical accounts of persuasion often assume that shared evidence and rational argumentation should lead to a convergence of views between peers, yet everyday discourse often…

cs.AI2026

BASIL: Bayesian Assessment of Sycophancy in LLMs

Katherine Atwell, Pedram Heydari, Anthony Sicilia +1

Sycophancy (overly agreeable or flattering behavior) poses a fundamental challenge for human-AI collaboration, particularly in high-stakes decision-making domains such as health, l…

cs.LG2026

MixDPO: Modeling Preference Strength for Pluralistic Alignment

Saki Imai, Pedram Heydari, Anthony Sicilia +3

Preference based alignment objectives implicitly assume that all human preferences are expressed with equal strength. In practice, however, preference strength varies across indivi…

cs.CL2025

Identifying & Interactively Refining Ambiguous User Goals for Data Visualization Code Generation

Mert İnan, Anthony Sicilia, Alex Xie +3

Establishing shared goals is a fundamental step in human-AI communication. However, ambiguities can lead to outputs that seem correct but fail to reflect the speaker's intent. In t…

cs.CL2025

Measuring How (Not Just Whether) VLMs Build Common Ground

Saki Imai, Mert İnan, Anthony Sicilia +1

Large vision language models (VLMs) increasingly claim reasoning skills, yet current benchmarks evaluate them in single-turn or question answering settings. However, grounding is a…