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20242026
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6 papers

cs.CL2026

On the Limits of LLM Adaptability: Impact of Model-Internalized Priors on Annotation Task Performance

Etienne Casanova, Rafal Kocielnik, R. Michael Alvarez

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for zero-shot annotation and LLM-as-a-judge tasks, yet their reliability hinges on how model-internalized priors interact with us…

cs.AI2025

The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

Pengrui Han, Rafal Kocielnik, Peiyang Song +4

Personality traits have long been studied as predictors of human behavior. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) suggest similar patterns may emerge in artificial systems…

cs.CL2025

Prosocial Behavior Detection in Player Game Chat: From Aligning Human-AI Definitions to Efficient Annotation at Scale

Rafal Kocielnik, Min Kim, Penphob +5

Detecting prosociality in text--communication intended to affirm, support, or improve others' behavior--is a novel and increasingly important challenge for trust and safety systems…

cs.CL2025

Self-Anchored Attention Model for Sample-Efficient Classification of Prosocial Text Chat

Zhuofang Li, Rafal Kocielnik, Fereshteh Soltani +4

Millions of players engage daily in competitive online games, communicating through in-game chat. Prior research has focused on detecting relatively small volumes of toxic content…

cs.CY2024

Online Moderation in Competitive Action Games: How Intervention Affects Player Behaviors

Zhuofang Li, Rafal Kocielnik, Mitchell Linegar +7

Online competitive action games have flourished as a space for entertainment and social connections, yet they face challenges from a small percentage of players engaging in disrupt…

econ.GN2024

American Views About Election Fraud in 2024

Mitchell Linegar, R. Michael Alvarez

What are the opinions of American registered voters about election fraud and types of election fraud as we head into the final stages of the 2024 Presidential election? In this pap…