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most citedQuantifying Language Models' Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design or: How I learned to start worrying about prompt formatting

51 citations · 87 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

World of SWECraft: Agent Collaboration at Scale via Simulated Software Worlds

Shannon Zejiang Shen, Yapei Chang, Qiyao Liang +13

As teams of AI agents take on larger projects and long-standing open problems, agent collaboration offers another dimension for scaling inference-time compute. To understand what m…

cs.AI2026

Scaling Participation in Modular AI Systems

Shangbin Feng, Yike Wang, Weijia Shi +3

Humanity is a mosaic of multifaceted talents and needs, and any truly intelligent AI must reflect that richness. Yet the LLMs used by all are built by the few -- a centralized mark…

cs.CL2026

Privasis: Synthesizing the Largest "Public" Private Dataset from Scratch

Hyunwoo Kim, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Michael Duan +11

Research involving privacy-sensitive data has always been constrained by data scarcity, standing in sharp contrast to other areas that have benefited from data scaling. This challe…

cs.CL2026

MoCo: A One-Stop Shop for Model Collaboration Research

Shangbin Feng, Yuyang Bai, Ziyuan Yang +17

Advancing beyond single monolithic language models (LMs), recent research increasingly recognizes the importance of model collaboration, where multiple LMs collaborate, compose, an…

cs.CL2025

When One LLM Drools, Multi-LLM Collaboration Rules

Shangbin Feng, Wenxuan Ding, Alisa Liu +10

This position paper argues that in many realistic (i.e., complex, contextualized, subjective) scenarios, one LLM is not enough to produce a reliable output. We challenge the status…

cs.LG2024

Explore Theory of Mind: Program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning

Melanie Sclar, Jane Yu, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi +4

Do large language models (LLMs) have theory of mind? A plethora of papers and benchmarks have been introduced to evaluate if current models have been able to develop this key abili…

cs.CV2024

Negative Token Merging: Image-based Adversarial Feature Guidance

Jaskirat Singh, Lindsey Li, Weijia Shi +7

Text-based adversarial guidance using a negative prompt has emerged as a widely adopted approach to steer diffusion models away from producing undesired concepts. While useful, per…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Model Swarms: Collaborative Search to Adapt LLM Experts via Swarm Intelligence

Shangbin Feng, Zifeng Wang, Yike Wang +9

We propose Model Swarms, a collaborative search algorithm to adapt LLMs via swarm intelligence, the collective behavior guiding individual systems. Specifically, Model Swarms start…

cs.HC2024★ 4 cited

Biased AI can Influence Political Decision-Making

Jillian Fisher, Shangbin Feng, Robert Aron +6

As modern large language models (LLMs) become integral to everyday tasks, concerns about their inherent biases and their potential impact on human decision-making have emerged. Whi…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

The Art of Saying No: Contextual Noncompliance in Language Models

Faeze Brahman, Sachin Kumar, Vidhisha Balachandran +11

Chat-based language models are designed to be helpful, yet they should not comply with every user request. While most existing work primarily focuses on refusal of "unsafe" queries…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Modular Pluralism: Pluralistic Alignment via Multi-LLM Collaboration

Shangbin Feng, Taylor Sorensen, Yuhan Liu +4

While existing alignment paradigms have been integral in developing large language models (LLMs), LLMs often learn an averaged human preference and struggle to model diverse prefer…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

CulturalTeaming: AI-Assisted Interactive Red-Teaming for Challenging LLMs' (Lack of) Multicultural Knowledge

Yu Ying Chiu, Liwei Jiang, Maria Antoniak +7

Frontier large language models (LLMs) are developed by researchers and practitioners with skewed cultural backgrounds and on datasets with skewed sources. However, LLMs' (lack of)…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Alpaca against Vicuna: Using LLMs to Uncover Memorization of LLMs

Aly M. Kassem, Omar Mahmoud, Niloofar Mireshghallah +5

In this paper, we introduce a black-box prompt optimization method that uses an attacker LLM agent to uncover higher levels of memorization in a victim agent, compared to what is r…

cs.CL2024★ 10 cited

Do Membership Inference Attacks Work on Large Language Models?

Michael Duan, Anshuman Suri, Niloofar Mireshghallah +7

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) attempt to predict whether a particular datapoint is a member of a target model's training data. Despite extensive research on traditional machi…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Tuning Language Models by Proxy

Alisa Liu, Xiaochuang Han, Yizhong Wang +3

Despite the general capabilities of large pretrained language models, they consistently benefit from further adaptation to better achieve desired behaviors. However, tuning these m…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

The Unlocking Spell on Base LLMs: Rethinking Alignment via In-Context Learning

Bill Yuchen Lin, Abhilasha Ravichander, Ximing Lu +5

The alignment tuning process of large language models (LLMs) typically involves instruction learning through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and preference tuning via reinforcement le…

cs.CL2023★ 51 cited

Quantifying Language Models' Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design or: How I learned to start worrying about prompt formatting

Melanie Sclar, Yejin Choi, Yulia Tsvetkov +1

As large language models (LLMs) are adopted as a fundamental component of language technologies, it is crucial to accurately characterize their performance. Because choices in prom…

cs.SI2023★ 2 cited

BotPercent: Estimating Bot Populations in Twitter Communities

Zhaoxuan Tan, Shangbin Feng, Melanie Sclar +4

Twitter bot detection is vital in combating misinformation and safeguarding the integrity of social media discourse. While malicious bots are becoming more and more sophisticated a…