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most citedInstructed to Bias: Instruction-Tuned Language Models Exhibit Emergent Cognitive Bias

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cs.CL2026

From Feelings to Metrics: Understanding and Formalizing How Users Vibe-Test LLMs

Itay Itzhak, Eliya Habba, Gabriel Stanovsky +1

Evaluating LLMs is challenging, as benchmark scores often fail to capture models' real-world usefulness. Instead, users often rely on ``vibe-testing'': informal experience-based ev…

cs.CL2025

BlackboxNLP-2025 MIB Shared Task: Improving Circuit Faithfulness via Better Edge Selection

Yaniv Nikankin, Dana Arad, Itay Itzhak +4

One of the main challenges in mechanistic interpretability is circuit discovery, determining which parts of a model perform a given task. We build on the Mechanistic Interpretabili…

cs.CL2025

HACK: Hallucinations Along Certainty and Knowledge Axes

Adi Simhi, Jonathan Herzig, Itay Itzhak +7

Hallucinations in LLMs present a critical barrier to their reliable usage. Existing research usually categorizes hallucination by their external properties rather than by the LLMs'…

cs.CL2025

Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures

Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377

To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…

cs.CL2025

ManagerBench: Evaluating the Safety-Pragmatism Trade-off in Autonomous LLMs

Adi Simhi, Jonathan Herzig, Martin Tutek +3

As large language models (LLMs) evolve from conversational assistants into autonomous agents, evaluating the safety of their actions becomes critical. Prior safety benchmarks have…

cs.CL2025

Planted in Pretraining, Swayed by Finetuning: A Case Study on the Origins of Cognitive Biases in LLMs

Itay Itzhak, Yonatan Belinkov, Gabriel Stanovsky

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit cognitive biases -- systematic tendencies of irrational decision-making, similar to those seen in humans. Prior work has found that these biase…

cs.CL2025

DOVE: A Large-Scale Multi-Dimensional Predictions Dataset Towards Meaningful LLM Evaluation

Eliya Habba, Ofir Arviv, Itay Itzhak +5

Recent work found that LLMs are sensitive to a wide range of arbitrary prompt dimensions, including the type of delimiters, answer enumerators, instruction wording, and more. This…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Trust Me, I'm Wrong: LLMs Hallucinate with Certainty Despite Knowing the Answer

Adi Simhi, Itay Itzhak, Fazl Barez +2

Prior work on large language model (LLM) hallucinations has associated them with model uncertainty or inaccurate knowledge. In this work, we define and investigate a distinct type…

cs.AI2023★ 6 cited

Instructed to Bias: Instruction-Tuned Language Models Exhibit Emergent Cognitive Bias

Itay Itzhak, Gabriel Stanovsky, Nir Rosenfeld +1

Recent studies show that instruction tuning (IT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) improve the abilities of large language models (LMs) dramatically. While thes…

cs.CL2021

Models In a Spelling Bee: Language Models Implicitly Learn the Character Composition of Tokens

Itay Itzhak, Omer Levy

Standard pretrained language models operate on sequences of subword tokens without direct access to the characters that compose each token's string representation. We probe the emb…