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20152026
most citedAsk, and shall you receive?: Understanding Desire Fulfillment in Natural Language Text

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

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

Language Models Show a "Women-Are-Wonderful" Effect in Blame Attribution That is Not Just Leniency

Anika Sharma, Snehalkumar 'Neil' S. Gaikwad, Snigdha Chaturvedi +1

This paper investigates the Women-Are-Wonderful (WaW) effect in language-model blame attribution: a favorable bias in which women receive more positive evaluations than men. Using…

cs.MA2026

Evaluating Context Sensitivity of Collaboration Behavior in Multi Party Simulation Frameworks

Anvesh Rao Vijjini, Sheshera Mysore, Pegah Jandaghi +3

Group Social Behavior is increasingly used as a lens to study Large language model (LLM) simulations to aid model training and evaluation. However, little prior work has examined h…

cs.CL2026

CASPER in the Machine: Insights into Character Variety in LLM-Generated Stories

Anneliese Brei, Abhisheik Sharma, Nicholas Sanaie +2

As LLM-generated text is increasingly used, especially in fictional domains, we explore how much LLM-generated stories differ from human-written stories. In this work, we focus on…

cs.CL2026

SHARD: Safe and Helpful Alignment via Self-Reframing Distillation

Viswonathan Manoranjan, Amogh Gupta, Anvesh Rao Vijjini +2

Large language models often struggle with sensitive prompts. They may refuse outright, provide generic safety boilerplate, or fail to address the user's legitimate informational ne…

cs.CL2026

Do LLM Agents Mirror Socio-Cognitive Effects in Power-Asymmetric Conversations?

Anvesh Rao Vijjini, Sagar Manjunath, Snigdha Chaturvedi

Power differences shape human communication through well documented socio cognitive effects, including language coordination, pronoun usage, authority bias, and harmful compliance.…

cs.AI2026

Socratic Students: Teaching Language Models to Learn by Asking Questions

Rajeev Bhatt Ambati, Tianyi Niu, Aashu Singh +3

Large language Models (LLMs) are usually used to answer questions, but many high-stakes applications (e.g., tutoring, clinical support) require the complementary skill of asking qu…

cs.CL2025

CreativityPrism: A Cross-Domain Evaluation Framework for Large Language Model Creativity

Zhaoyi Joey Hou, Bowei Alvin Zhang, Yining Lu +9

Creativity is often seen as a hallmark of human intelligence. While large language models(LLMs) are increasingly perceived as generating creative text, there is still no cross-doma…

cs.CL2025

Classifying Unreliable Narrators with Large Language Models

Anneliese Brei, Katharine Henry, Abhisheik Sharma +2

Often when we interact with a first-person account of events, we consider whether or not the narrator, the primary speaker of the text, is reliable. In this paper, we propose using…

cs.LG2025

MarginSel : Max-Margin Demonstration Selection for LLMs

Rajeev Bhatt Ambati, James Lester, Shashank Srivastava +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at few-shot learning via in-context learning (ICL). However, the effectiveness of ICL is often sensitive to the selection and ordering of demonst…

cs.CL2024

SocialGaze: Improving the Integration of Human Social Norms in Large Language Models

Anvesh Rao Vijjini, Rakesh R. Menon, Jiayi Fu +2

While much research has explored enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in the last few years, there is a gap in understanding the alignment of these…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Exploring Safety-Utility Trade-Offs in Personalized Language Models

Anvesh Rao Vijjini, Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Snigdha Chaturvedi

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into daily applications, it is essential to ensure they operate fairly across diverse user demographics. In this work…

cs.CL2024

Returning to the Start: Generating Narratives with Related Endpoints

Anneliese Brei, Chao Zhao, Snigdha Chaturvedi

Human writers often bookend their writing with ending sentences that relate back to the beginning sentences in order to compose a satisfying narrative that "closes the loop." Motiv…

cs.AI2015★ 10 cited

Ask, and shall you receive?: Understanding Desire Fulfillment in Natural Language Text

Snigdha Chaturvedi, Dan Goldwasser, Hal Daume

The ability to comprehend wishes or desires and their fulfillment is important to Natural Language Understanding. This paper introduces the task of identifying if a desire expresse…