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most citedLarge Language Model Chatbot Conversations vs Public Health Materials and Parental HPV Vaccination Intentions: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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Large Language Model Chatbot Conversations vs Public Health Materials and Parental HPV Vaccination Intentions: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Neil K. R. Sehgal, Sunny Rai, Manuel Tonneau +6

Health care systems are increasingly considering large language model (LLM)-based chatbots for vaccine communication, but evidence that they improve durable, behaviorally relevant…

cs.LG2026

Conceptors for Semantic Steering

Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Young-Min Cho, Ren Tao +6

Activation-based steering provides control of LLM behavior at inference time, but the dominant paradigm reduces each concept to a single direction whose geometry is left largely un…

cs.CL2025

Culturally-Aware Conversations: A Framework & Benchmark for LLMs

Shreya Havaldar, Sunny Rai, Young-Min Cho +1

Existing benchmarks that measure cultural adaptation in LLMs are misaligned with the actual challenges these models face when interacting with users from diverse cultural backgroun…

cs.CY2025

Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Health Expressions on Social Media

Sunny Rai, Khushi Shelat, Devansh R Jain +6

Culture moderates the way individuals perceive and express mental distress. Current understandings of mental health expressions on social media, however, are predominantly derived…

cs.CY2025

Social Norms in Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Shame, Pride and Prejudice

Sunny Rai, Khushang Jilesh Zaveri, Shreya Havaldar +3

Shame and pride are social emotions expressed across cultures to motivate and regulate people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In this paper, we introduce the first cross-cultu…

cs.CL2024

Building Knowledge-Guided Lexica to Model Cultural Variation

Shreya Havaldar, Salvatore Giorgi, Sunny Rai +4

Cultural variation exists between nations (e.g., the United States vs. China), but also within regions (e.g., California vs. Texas, Los Angeles vs. San Francisco). Measuring this r…