21 papers
When AI Says "I have been in similar situations": Synthetic Lived Experience in Peer-Like Caregiver Support
Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu +6
Caregivers often turn to online communities for informational and emotional support. In these spaces, peer supporters frequently draw on personal narratives to respond to emotional…
Inform, Coach, Relate, Listen: Auditing LLM Caregiving Support Roles
Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu +8
Language models are increasingly being deployed for conversational support in informal caregiving contexts, where interactions often extend beyond information-seeking: caregivers s…
Toxic HallucinAItions: Perturbing Prompts and Tracing LLM Circuits
Soorya Ram Shimgekar, Agam Goyal, Amruta Parulekar +6
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in conversational settings where user tone ranges from polite to adversarial or toxic, yet less is known about whether toxic…
Algorithmic Cultivation: How Social Media Feeds Shape User Language
Olivia Pal, Agam Goyal, Eshwar Chandrasekharan +1
Algorithmic feeds have become primary environments for encountering information online, yet while they shape what people see, less is known about how sustained feed exposure shapes…
State Contamination in Memory-Augmented LLM Agents
Yian Wang, Agam Goyal, Yuen Chen +1
LLM agents increasingly rely on persistent state, including transcripts, summaries, retrieved context, and memory buffers, to support long-horizon interaction. This makes safety de…
Masking or Mitigating? Deconstructing the Impact of Query Rewriting on Retriever Biases in RAG
Agam Goyal, Koyel Mukherjee, Apoorv Saxena +3
Dense retrievers in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems exhibit systematic biases -- including brevity, position, literal matching, and repetition biases -- that can compr…