3 papers
cs.AI2026
From Encoding to Generation: Towards Empathetic Large Language Models
Samhita Bollepally, Takashi Yamauchi, Marissa West
Empathetic interaction involves two distinguishable capacities: representing another person's emotional state (cognitive empathy) and generating an appropriate response to that sta…
cs.CL2026
Do LLMs differentiate linguistic traits internally?: A layer-wise analysis
Samhita Bollepally, Takashi Yamauchi, Manju Muralee +1
Large language models often produce judgments that resemble human responses, but it remains unclear whether they internally capture linguistic nuances such as conventional versus i…
cs.CL2026
Representational Similarity Alignment of Figurative Language in Humans and Large Language Models
Samhita Bollepally, Aurora Sloman-Moll, Takashi Yamauchi +1
Large language models (LLMs) often produce judgments similar to those of humans, but their interpretation of figurative language remains unclear. We compared human participants and…