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most citedEchoes in AI: Quantifying lack of plot diversity in LLM outputs

7 citations · 9 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.SD2026

Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics as Rewards for Audio Reasoning

Fangxu Yu, Tao Feng, Dehai Min +6

Audio reasoning is essential for machine understanding of the acoustic world. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards can elicit such reasoning, yet existing reward designs…

cs.LG2026

Weak-to-Strong On-Policy Distillation

Fangxu Yu, Weijia Xu, Michael Xu +2

On-policy distillation (OPD), which aligns a student with the teacher's token-level distribution on the student's own rollouts, is an effective paradigm for transferring capabiliti…

cs.CL2026

Rushes: A Human Preference Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment

Michael Xu, Jorge Leandro, Sudha Rao +5

We introduce Rushes, a dataset and benchmark for studying revealed human engagement preferences in interactive narrative environments. Rushes is collected through a game interface…

cs.AI2026

Agentic-imodels: Evolving agentic interpretability tools via autoresearch

Chandan Singh, Yan Shuo Tan, Weijia Xu +4

Agentic data science (ADS) systems are rapidly improving their capability to autonomously analyze, fit, and interpret data, potentially moving towards a future where agents conduct…

cs.LG2026

Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library

Weijia Xu, Alessandro Sordoni, Chandan Singh +4

We introduce EvoLib, a test-time learning framework that enables large language models to accumulate, reuse, and evolve knowledge across problem instances without parameter updates…

cs.CL2025★ 7 cited

Echoes in AI: Quantifying lack of plot diversity in LLM outputs

Weijia Xu, Nebojsa Jojic, Sudha Rao +2

With rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), there has been an increasing application of LLMs in creative content ideation and generation. A critical question emerges: can…

cs.CL2024

Game Plot Design with an LLM-powered Assistant: An Empirical Study with Game Designers

Seyed Hossein Alavi, Weijia Xu, Nebojsa Jojic +6

We introduce GamePlot, an LLM-powered assistant that supports game designers in crafting immersive narratives for turn-based games, and allows them to test these games through a co…

cs.LG2024

fLSA: Learning Semantic Structures in Document Collections Using Foundation Models

Weijia Xu, Nebojsa Jojic, Nicolas Le Roux

Humans can learn to solve new tasks by inducing high-level strategies from example solutions to similar problems and then adapting these strategies to solve unseen problems. Can we…

cs.CL2024

Collaborative Quest Completion with LLM-driven Non-Player Characters in Minecraft

Sudha Rao, Weijia Xu, Michael Xu +5

The use of generative AI in video game development is on the rise, and as the conversational and other capabilities of large language models continue to improve, we expect LLM-driv…

cs.CL2024

Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative

Xiangyu Peng, Jessica Quaye, Sudha Rao +10

We explore how interaction with large language models (LLMs) can give rise to emergent behaviors, empowering players to participate in the evolution of game narratives. Our testbed…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

GENEVA: GENErating and Visualizing branching narratives using LLMs

Jorge Leandro, Sudha Rao, Michael Xu +4

Dialogue-based Role Playing Games (RPGs) require powerful storytelling. The narratives of these may take years to write and typically involve a large creative team. In this work, w…