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Will Scaling Improve Social Simulation with LLMs?
Caleb Ziems, William Held, Su Doga Karaca +3
Large Language Model (LLM) social simulations are a promising research method, but they are not yet faithful enough to be adopted widely. In this work, we investigate whether the c…
Reflections and New Directions for Human-Centered Large Language Models
Caleb Ziems, Dora Zhao, Rose E. Wang +55
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping the private and professional lives of users, with numerous applications in business, education, finance, healthcare, law, and…
Culture Cartography: Mapping the Landscape of Cultural Knowledge
Caleb Ziems, William Held, Jane Yu +3
To serve global users safely and productively, LLMs need culture-specific knowledge that might not be learned during pre-training. How do we find such knowledge that is (1) salient…
Silent Signals, Loud Impact: LLMs for Word-Sense Disambiguation of Coded Dog Whistles
Julia Kruk, Michela Marchini, Rijul Magu +3
A dog whistle is a form of coded communication that carries a secondary meaning to specific audiences and is often weaponized for racial and socioeconomic discrimination. Dog whist…
CultureBank: An Online Community-Driven Knowledge Base Towards Culturally Aware Language Technologies
Weiyan Shi, Ryan Li, Yutong Zhang +5
To enhance language models' cultural awareness, we design a generalizable pipeline to construct cultural knowledge bases from different online communities on a massive scale. With…