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20242026
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6 papers

cs.CL2026

On the Role of Citations in Preference Data

Yu Hou, Hal Daumé, Rachel Rudinger +1

Many NLP tasks require systems to provide attribution in their outputs--i.e. citations to grounding sources. Attribution serves as a bulwark against model hallucination and as a me…

cs.AI2026

AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Human-Computer Cooperative Question Answering?

Maharshi Gor, Yoo Yeon Sung, Yu Hou +4

AI systems are fallible, and humans can make mistakes in deciding whether to trust AI over their own judgment. Thus, improving human-AI collaboration requires understanding when, w…

cs.CL2025

Language Models Predict Empathy Gaps Between Social In-groups and Out-groups

Yu Hou, Hal Daumé, Rachel Rudinger

Studies of human psychology have demonstrated that people are more motivated to extend empathy to in-group members than out-group members (Cikara et al., 2011). In this study, we i…

cs.CL2025

Are Akpans Trick or Treat: Unveiling Helpful Biases in Assistant Systems

Jiao Sun, Yu Hou, Jiin Kim +1

Information-seeking AI assistant systems aim to answer users' queries about knowledge in a timely manner. However, both the human-perceived helpfulness of information-seeking assis…

cs.CL2025

GRACE: A Granular Benchmark for Evaluating Model Calibration against Human Calibration

Yoo Yeon Sung, Eve Fleisig, Yu Hou +2

Language models are often miscalibrated, leading to confidently incorrect answers. We introduce GRACE, a benchmark for language model calibration that incorporates comparison with…

cs.CL2024

Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models

Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Yu Hou, Yang Trista Cao +2

Compositional reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remains challenging as these models often struggle to relate objects, attributes, and spatial relationships. Recent methods…