4 papers
LLM Multi-Agent Systems Are Vulnerable to Herding and Runaway Cascades
Farnoosh Hashemi, Shiyu Ji, Joice Chen +1
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly operate in multi-agent systems where they collaborate by responding to others' choices, creating endogenous feedback loops with vulnerabil…
CT: Counterfactual Causal Reasoning for Sentiment Shifts in Social-Media Conversation Trees
S M Rafiuddin, Atriya Sen
Sentiment in social-media threads does not only vary across posts; it shifts as users react to claims, corrections, evidence, and hostility within a branching reply tree. We study…
A Generalizable Rhetorical Strategy Annotation Model Using LLM-based Debate Simulation and Labelling
Shiyu Ji, Farnoosh Hashemi, Joice Chen +9
Rhetorical strategies are central to persuasive communication, from political discourse and marketing to legal argumentation. However, analysis of rhetorical strategies has been li…
Communication is All You Need: Persuasion Dataset Construction via Multi-LLM Communication
Weicheng Ma, Hefan Zhang, Ivory Yang +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown proficiency in generating persuasive dialogue, yet concerns about the fluency and sophistication of their outputs persist. This paper presen…