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VibeJam: A User Study Platform for Web Development with Agents
Nishant Balepur, Connor Baumler, Valerie Chen +3
Programming with AI is increasingly agentic, users prompt LLMs to directly edit their code and review the changes, with adoption growing especially for web development tasks. Despi…
Check The Scoreboard: An Analysis of Scoring Schemes on Multiple-Choice Evaluation
Nishant Balepur, Paiheng Xu, Wei Ai +3
Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) benchmarks in NLP use number-right scoring (accuracy), but in educational testing, the scoring scheme, the combination of the response mod…
(Im)Paired Programming: Coding Agents Improve Productivity but Harm Understanding
Nishant Balepur, Connor Baumler, Valerie Chen +3
Coding agents (e.g., Cursor) improve developer productivity by optimizing task completion, but shifting users from writing code to prompting and reviewing may harm their understand…
DRACULA: Hunting for the Actions Users Want Deep Research Agents to Execute
Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +9
Scientific Deep Research (DR) agents answer user queries by synthesizing research papers into multi-section reports. User feedback can improve their utility, but existing protocols…
Language Models Don't Know What You Want: Evaluating Personalization in Deep Research Needs Real Users
Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +7
Deep Research (DR) systems help researchers cope with ballooning publishing counts. Such tools synthesize scientific papers to answer research queries, but lack understanding of th…
Failing to Falsify: Evaluating and Mitigating Confirmation Bias in Language Models
Ayush Rajesh Jhaveri, Anthony GX-Chen, Ilia Sucholutsky +1
Confirmation bias, the tendency to seek evidence that supports rather than challenges one's belief, hinders one's reasoning ability. We examine whether large language models (LLMs)…
No Single Best Model for Diversity: Learning a Router for Sample Diversity
Yuhan Liu, Fangyuan Xu, Vishakh Padmakumar +2
When posed with prompts that permit a large number of valid answers, comprehensively generating them is the first step towards satisfying a wide range of users. In this paper, we s…
DP-RFT: Learning to Generate Synthetic Text via Differentially Private Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
Fangyuan Xu, Sihao Chen, Zinan Lin +13
Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation plays a pivotal role in developing large language models (LLMs) on private data, where data owners cannot provide eyes-on acce…
RVR: Retrieve-Verify-Retrieve for Comprehensive Question Answering
Deniz Qian, Hung-Ting Chen, Eunsol Choi
Comprehensively retrieving diverse documents is crucial to address queries that admit a wide range of valid answers. We introduce retrieve-verify-retrieve (RVR), a multi-round retr…
BenchMarker: An Education-Inspired Toolkit for Highlighting Flaws in Multiple-Choice Benchmarks
Nishant Balepur, Bhavya Rajasekaran, Jane Oh +7
Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is standard in NLP, but benchmarks lack rigorous quality control. We present BenchMarker, an education-inspired toolkit using LLM judges t…
SAGE: Steerable Agentic Data Generation for Deep Search with Execution Feedback
Fangyuan Xu, Rujun Han, Yanfei Chen +7
Deep search agents, which aim to answer complex questions requiring reasoning across multiple documents, can significantly speed up the information-seeking process. Collecting huma…