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7 papers

cs.CL2026

On the use of foundation models in cognitive science

Raj Sanjay Shah, Alex Warstadt, Michael Frank +1

A host of recent studies have evaluated the cognitive and developmental alignment of Foundation Models (FMs). These investigations include evaluations of their correspondence to ad…

cs.CL2026

Human-Like Anaphor Resolution in Large Language Models

Keane Zhang, Varshini Chinta, Raj Sanjay Shah +1

Anaphors are expressions that refer to other expressions, called antecedents. The process of connecting the two is called resolution. Cognitive science has identified multiple fact…

cs.CV2026

When Visuals Aren't the Problem: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Misleading Data Visualizations

Harsh Nishant Lalai, Raj Sanjay Shah, Hanspeter Pfister +2

Visualizations help communicate data insights, but deceptive data representations can distort their interpretation and propagate misinformation. While recent Vision Language Models…

cs.CL2025

The World According to LLMs: How Geographic Origin Influences LLMs' Entity Deduction Capabilities

Harsh Nishant Lalai, Raj Sanjay Shah, Jiaxin Pei +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extensively tuned to mitigate explicit biases, yet they often exhibit subtle implicit biases rooted in their pre-training data. Rather than d…

cs.LG2025

A Neural Network Model of Complementary Learning Systems: Pattern Separation and Completion for Continual Learning

James P Jun, Vijay Marupudi, Raj Sanjay Shah +1

Learning new information without forgetting prior knowledge is central to human intelligence. In contrast, neural network models suffer from catastrophic forgetting: a significant…

cs.CL2025

Modeling Understanding of Story-Based Analogies Using Large Language Models

Kalit Inani, Keshav Kabra, Vijay Marupudi +1

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have brought them closer to matching human cognition across a variety of tasks. How well do these models align with human perfor…