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most citedMind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

6 citations · 11 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

CogGym: Towards Large-Scale Comparative Evaluation of Human and Machine Cognition

Lance Ying, Jinzhou Wu, Yingshan Susan Wang +53

Understanding and modeling human intelligence are parallel goals shared by artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science. As AI systems grow increasingly capable, in what ways…

cs.LG2026

Enhancing the MADDPG Algorithm for Multi-Agent Learning via Action Inference and Importance Sampling

Marc Walden, Jason Liu, Shaashwath Sivakumar +2

We investigate multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and propose two enhancements to the Multi-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (MADDPG) algorithm. First, we introduce a…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest

Addison J. Wu, Ryan Liu, Shuyue Stella Li +2

Large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with user preferences through methods like reinforcement learning. Yet models are beginning to be deployed not solely to satisfy u…

cs.CV2026

WaterVideoQA: ASV-Centric Perception and Rule-Compliant Reasoning via Multi-Modal Agents

Runwei Guan, Shaofeng Liang, Ningwei Ouyang +9

While autonomous navigation has achieved remarkable success in passive perception (e.g., object detection and segmentation), it remains fundamentally constrained by a void in knowl…

cs.AI2026

Cognitive Models and AI Algorithms Provide Templates for Designing Language Agents

Ryan Liu, Dilip Arumugam, Cedegao E. Zhang +3

While contemporary large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable in isolation, there are still many difficult problems that lie beyond the abilities of a single LLM. For su…

physics.soc-ph2026

Modeling Accessibility-Constrained Networks with Time-Weighted Graphs

Marc Walden, Jason Liu, Ryan Liu +1

Accessibility for the physically disabled is a prevalent issue on university campuses, where stairs and steep slopes make navigating campus arduous. Our work proposes a pipeline to…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models

Jiayi Geng, Howard Chen, Ryan Liu +4

Language model (LM) assistants are increasingly used in applications such as brainstorming and research. Improvements in memory and context size have allowed these models to become…

cs.CY2025

Large Language Models Develop Novel Social Biases Through Adaptive Exploration

Addison J. Wu, Ryan Liu, Xuechunzi Bai +1

As large language models (LLMs) are adopted into frameworks that grant them the capacity to make real decisions, it is increasingly important to ensure that they are unbiased. In t…

cs.CL2025

Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?

Addison J. Wu, Ryan Liu, Kerem Oktar +2

Human communication is motivated: people speak, write, and create content with a particular communicative intent in mind. As a result, information that large language models (LLMs)…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games

Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Graham Todd +9

Reasoning is not just about solving problems -- it is also about evaluating which problems are worth solving at all. Evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) systems primarily f…

cs.GT2025

Bi-LSTM based Multi-Agent DRL with Computation-aware Pruning for Agent Twins Migration in Vehicular Embodied AI Networks

Yuxiang Wei, Zhuoqi Zeng, Yue Zhong +3

With the advancement of large language models and embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the intelligent transportation scenarios, the combination of them in intelligent transpor…

cs.CL2025

Levels of Analysis for Large Language Models

Alexander Y. Ku, Declan Campbell, Xuechunzi Bai +10

Modern artificial intelligence systems, such as large language models, are increasingly powerful but also increasingly hard to understand. Recognizing this problem as analogous to…

cs.AI2025

On Benchmarking Human-Like Intelligence in Machines

Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Lionel Wong +6

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have yielded powerful computational models that, by learning from vast amounts of human-generated data, are increasingly posited as…

cs.LG2025

RLHS: Mitigating Misalignment in RLHF with Hindsight Simulation

Kaiqu Liang, Haimin Hu, Ryan Liu +2

While Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has shown promise in aligning generative AI, we present empirical evidence that it can also cause severe, systematic misalig…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

Ryan Liu, Jiayi Geng, Addison J. Wu +3

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting has become a widely used strategy for improving large language and multimodal model performance. However, it is still an open question under which…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Large Language Models Assume People are More Rational than We Really are

Ryan Liu, Jiayi Geng, Joshua C. Peterson +2

In order for AI systems to communicate effectively with people, they must understand how we make decisions. However, people's decisions are not always rational, so the implicit int…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

How do Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts between Honesty and Helpfulness?

Ryan Liu, Theodore R. Sumers, Ishita Dasgupta +1

In day-to-day communication, people often approximate the truth - for example, rounding the time or omitting details - in order to be maximally helpful to the listener. How do larg…