4 papers
How Do AI Agents Do Human Work? Comparing AI and Human Workflows Across Diverse Occupations
Zora Zhiruo Wang, Yijia Shao, Omar Shaikh +3
AI agents are continually optimized for tasks related to human work, such as software engineering and professional writing, signaling a pressing trend with significant impacts on t…
SynthesizeMe! Inducing Persona-Guided Prompts for Personalized Reward Models in LLMs
Michael J Ryan, Omar Shaikh, Aditri Bhagirath +3
Recent calls for pluralistic alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) encourage adapting models to diverse user preferences. However, most prior work on personalized reward models…
Creating General User Models from Computer Use
Omar Shaikh, Shardul Sapkota, Shan Rizvi +4
Human-computer interaction has long imagined technology that understands us-from our preferences and habits, to the timing and purpose of our everyday actions. Yet current user mod…
Navigating Rifts in Human-LLM Grounding: Study and Benchmark
Omar Shaikh, Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal +2
Language models excel at following instructions but often struggle with the collaborative aspects of conversation that humans naturally employ. This limitation in grounding -- the…