5 papers
Beyond Direct Identifiers: Probabilistic Privacy Risk Estimation for Privacy-Conscious LLM Query Delegation
Li Siyan, Zhou Yu, Julia Hirschberg
Recent work on protecting privacy during user-LLM interactions often focuses on direct, explicit identifiers: the personally-identifiable information (PII) captured by standard det…
A Survey of Automated Presentation Coaching: Systems, Methods, and Open Challenges
Wen Liang, Li Siyan, Zackary Rackauckas +1
Automated coaching for oral presentations sits at the intersection of computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT), prosody modeling, and speech synthesis, yet no prior work has…
DETOUR: An Interactive Benchmark for Dual-Agent Search and Reasoning
Li Siyan, Darshan Deshpande, Anand Kannappan +1
When recalling information in conversation, people often arrive at the recollection after multiple turns. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating agent capabilities in such tip…
Is Passive Expertise-Based Personalization Enough? A Case Study in AI-Assisted Test-Taking
Li Siyan, Jason Zhang, Akash Maharaj +2
Novice and expert users have different systematic preferences in task-oriented dialogues. However, whether catering to these preferences actually improves user experience and task…
Bringing Pedagogy into Focus: Evaluating Virtual Teaching Assistants' Question-Answering in Asynchronous Learning Environments
Li Siyan, Zhen Xu, Vethavikashini Chithrra Raghuram +3
Asynchronous learning environments (ALEs) are widely adopted for formal and informal learning, but timely and personalized support is often limited. In this context, Virtual Teachi…