3 papers
cs.AI2026
How AI Assistance Affects Human Skill Development: A Study of Learning with Logic Puzzles
Shang Wu, Catarina G Belem, Shuyuan Fu +2
While AI assistance can improve human task performance in the short term, it may also undermine the development of skills in the longer term. We examine this tension in a controlle…
cs.CL2026
From `May' to `Is': Certainty Distortion in Language Model Rewriting
Catarina G Belem, Shang Wu, Hongyu Yao +3
Humans increasingly turn to Language Models (LMs) in ways that shape beliefs and drive decisions, including discussing, rewriting, and summarizing information from scientific artic…
cs.LG2025
Semantic Probabilistic Control of Language Models
Kareem Ahmed, Catarina G Belem, Padhraic Smyth +1
Semantic control entails steering LM generations towards satisfying subtle non-lexical constraints, e.g., toxicity, sentiment, or politeness, attributes that can be captured by a s…