2 papers
cs.CL2026
Point of Order: Action-Aware LLM Persona Modeling for Data-Grounded Civic Deliberation
Scott Merrill, Shashank Srivastava
LLM-based simulations can enable controlled studies of civic deliberation, but current systems lack speaker-attributed data and methods for evaluating long-form institutional behav…
cs.CL2026
The Point of No Return: Counterfactual Localization of Deceptive Commitment in Language-Model Reasoning
Scott Merrill, Shashank Srivastava
Existing deception datasets label completed outputs as honest or deceptive, treating deception as a property of the final response rather than a function of the model's reasoning t…