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cs.CL2026

GIANTS: Generative Insight Anticipation from Scientific Literature

Joy He-Yueya, Anikait Singh, Ge Gao +5

Scientific breakthroughs often emerge from synthesizing prior ideas into novel contributions. While language models (LMs) show promise in scientific discovery, their ability to per…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Simulate Human Dialogue

Kanishk Gandhi, Agam Bhatia, Noah D. Goodman

To predict what someone will say is to model how they think. We study this through next-turn dialogue prediction: given a conversation, predict the next utterance produced by a per…

cs.CL2025

Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners, or, Four Habits of Highly Effective STaRs

Kanishk Gandhi, Ayush Chakravarthy, Anikait Singh +2

Test-time inference has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enabling language models to ``think'' longer and more carefully about complex challenges, much like skilled human experts…

cs.CL2025

Non-literal Understanding of Number Words by Language Models

Polina Tsvilodub, Kanishk Gandhi, Haoran Zhao +3

Humans naturally interpret numbers non-literally, effortlessly combining context, world knowledge, and speaker intent. We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) interpret…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Human-like Affective Cognition in Foundation Models

Kanishk Gandhi, Zoe Lynch, Jan-Philipp Fränken +5

Understanding emotions is fundamental to human interaction and experience. Humans easily infer emotions from situations or facial expressions, situations from emotions, and do a va…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Psychometric Alignment: Capturing Human Knowledge Distributions via Language Models

Joy He-Yueya, Wanjing Anya Ma, Kanishk Gandhi +3

Language models (LMs) are increasingly used to simulate human-like responses in scenarios where accurately mimicking a population's behavior can guide decision-making, such as in d…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information: Learning to Follow Principles without Preference Labels

Jan-Philipp Fränken, Eric Zelikman, Rafael Rafailov +3

When prompting a language model (LM), users often expect the model to adhere to a set of behavioral principles across diverse tasks, such as producing insightful content while avoi…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Procedural Dilemma Generation for Evaluating Moral Reasoning in Humans and Language Models

Jan-Philipp Fränken, Kanishk Gandhi, Tori Qiu +3

As AI systems like language models are increasingly integrated into decision-making processes affecting people's lives, it's critical to ensure that these systems have sound moral…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

STaR-GATE: Teaching Language Models to Ask Clarifying Questions

Chinmaya Andukuri, Jan-Philipp Fränken, Tobias Gerstenberg +1

When prompting language models to complete a task, users often leave important aspects unsaid. While asking questions could resolve this ambiguity (GATE; Li et al., 2023), models o…