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most citedPosition is Power: System Prompts as a Mechanism of Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs)

25 citations · 27 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses

Mahsa Amani, Seungeon Lee, Abhisek Dash +9

Conversational LLM agents increasingly rely on Web search, yet the end-to-end lifecycle of agentic search remains poorly understood. We present the first study of Web search across…

cs.CL2026

On Epistemic Diversity in Large Language Models

Elisabeth Kirsten, Nicole Krämer, Muhammad Bilal Zafar

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used not only to retrieve information, but to answer questions, explain, teach, and support inquiry. In such settings, evaluation cann…

cs.HC2026

The Algorithmic Self-Portrait: Deconstructing Memory in ChatGPT

Abhisek Dash, Soumi Das, Elisabeth Kirsten +6

To enable personalized and context-aware interactions, conversational AI systems have introduced a new mechanism: Memory. Memory creates what we refer to as the Algorithmic Self-po…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI

Elisabeth Kirsten, Jost Grosse Perdekamp, Qinyuan Wu +3

The advent of LLMs has given rise to generative search, a new search paradigm in which LLMs retrieve information from the web related to a query and synthesize it into a single, co…

cs.CY2025★ 25 cited

Position is Power: System Prompts as a Mechanism of Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs)

Anna Neumann, Elisabeth Kirsten, Muhammad Bilal Zafar +1

System prompts in Large Language Models (LLMs) are predefined directives that guide model behaviour, taking precedence over user inputs in text processing and generation. LLM deplo…

cs.CL2024

The Impact of Inference Acceleration on Bias of LLMs

Elisabeth Kirsten, Ivan Habernal, Vedant Nanda +1

Last few years have seen unprecedented advances in capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). These advancements promise to benefit a vast array of application domains. However,…