4 papers
Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment
David D. Baek, Xinnuo Li, Anay Gupta +4
The increasing situational awareness of language models raises safety concerns: models might be aware when they are evaluated, and adjust their behavior to evade monitoring and res…
Comparing the Impact of Pedagogy-Informed Custom and General-Purpose GAI Chatbots on Students' Science Problem-Solving Processes and Performance Using Heterogeneous Interaction Network Analysis
Hanyu Su, Huilin Zhang, Shihui Feng
Problem solving plays an essential role in science education, and generative AI (GAI) chatbots have emerged as a promising tool for supporting students' science problem solving. Ho…
Reverse Question Answering: Can an LLM Write a Question so Hard (or Bad) that it Can't Answer?
Nishant Balepur, Feng Gu, Abhilasha Ravichander +3
Question answering (QA), giving correct answers to questions, is a popular task, but we test reverse question answering (RQA): for an input answer, give a question with that answer…
A SMART Mnemonic Sounds like "Glue Tonic": Mixing LLMs with Student Feedback to Make Mnemonic Learning Stick
Nishant Balepur, Matthew Shu, Alexander Hoyle +4
Keyword mnemonics are memorable explanations that link new terms to simpler keywords. Prior work generates mnemonics for students, but they do not train models using mnemonics stud…