5 papers
DEBATE: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evaluating Opinion Dynamics in Role-Playing LLM Agents
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Ruixuan Tu, Chengtao Dai +9
Accurately modeling opinion change through social interactions is crucial for understanding and mitigating polarization, misinformation, and societal conflict. Recent work simulate…
The Delusional Hedge Algorithm as a Model of Human Learning from Diverse Opinions
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Jerry Zhu, Timothy T. Rogers
Whereas cognitive models of learning often assume direct experience with both the features of an event and with a true label or outcome, much of everyday learning arises from heari…
Probing LLM World Models: Enhancing Guesstimation with Wisdom of Crowds Decoding
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Sameer Narendran, Nikunj Harlalka +5
Guesstimation -- the task of making approximate quantitative estimates about objects or events -- is a common real-world skill, yet remains underexplored in large language model (L…
Bridging the Creativity Understanding Gap: Small-Scale Human Alignment Enables Expert-Level Humor Ranking in LLMs
Kuan Lok Zhou, Jiayi Chen, Siddharth Suresh +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant limitations in understanding creative content, as demonstrated by Hessel et al. (2023)'s influential work on the New Yorker Cart…
Beyond Demographics: Aligning Role-playing LLM-based Agents Using Human Belief Networks
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Krirk Nirunwiroj, Zach Studdiford +6
Creating human-like large language model (LLM) agents is crucial for faithful social simulation. Having LLMs role-play based on demographic information sometimes improves human lik…