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Identifying and Mitigating the Influence of the Prior Distribution in Large Language Models
Liyi Zhang, Veniamin Veselovsky, R. Thomas McCoy +1
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes fail to respond appropriately to deterministic tasks -- such as counting or forming acronyms -- because the implicit prior distribution they…
Prevalence and prevention of large language model use in crowd work
Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Philip Cozzolino +3
We show that the use of large language models (LLMs) is prevalent among crowd workers, and that targeted mitigation strategies can significantly reduce, but not eliminate, LLM use.…
Generating Faithful Synthetic Data with Large Language Models: A Case Study in Computational Social Science
Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Akhil Arora +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have democratized synthetic data generation, which in turn has the potential to simplify and broaden a wide gamut of NLP tasks. Here, we tackle a perva…
Reddit in the Time of COVID
Veniamin Veselovsky, Ashton Anderson
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, much of life moved online. Platforms of all types reported surges of activity, and people remarked on the various important functions that online pl…
The Amplification Paradox in Recommender Systems
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Veniamin Veselovsky, Robert West
Automated audits of recommender systems found that blindly following recommendations leads users to increasingly partisan, conspiratorial, or false content. At the same time, studi…