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most citedWhat Large Language Models Know and What People Think They Know

182 citations · 207 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

Practicing with Language Models Cultivates Human Empathic Communication

Aakriti Kumar, Nalin Poungpeth, Diyi Yang +2

Empathy is central to human connection, yet people often struggle to express it effectively. In blinded evaluations, large language models (LLMs) generate responses that are often…

cs.CL2025

When Large Language Models are Reliable for Judging Empathic Communication

Aakriti Kumar, Nalin Poungpeth, Diyi Yang +3

Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating empathic responses in text-based conversations. But, how reliably do they judge the nuances of empathic communication? We investiga…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Characterizing Photorealism and Artifacts in Diffusion Model-Generated Images

Negar Kamali, Karyn Nakamura, Aakriti Kumar +3

Diffusion model-generated images can appear indistinguishable from authentic photographs, but these images often contain artifacts and implausibilities that reveal their AI-generat…

cs.LG2024★ 182 cited

What Large Language Models Know and What People Think They Know

Mark Steyvers, Heliodoro Tejeda, Aakriti Kumar +5

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), become increasingly integrated into decision-making processes, the ability to trust their output…

cs.LG2023★ 24 cited

Capturing Humans' Mental Models of AI: An Item Response Theory Approach

Markelle Kelly, Aakriti Kumar, Padhraic Smyth +1

Improving our understanding of how humans perceive AI teammates is an important foundation for our general understanding of human-AI teams. Extending relevant work from cognitive s…