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Verbalizing LLMs' assumptions to explain and control sycophancy
Myra Cheng, Isabel Sieh, Humishka Zope +7
LLMs can be socially sycophantic, affirming users when they ask questions like "am I in the wrong?" rather than providing genuine assessment. We hypothesize that this behavior aris…
Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations
Sunny Yu, Ahmad Jabbar, Robert Hawkins +2
Different open-ended generation tasks require different degrees of output diversity. However, current LLMs are often miscalibrated. They collapse to overly homogeneous outputs for…
ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee +3
LLMs are known to exhibit sycophancy: agreeing with and flattering users, even at the cost of correctness. Prior work measures sycophancy only as direct agreement with users' expli…
HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs
Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Dan Jurafsky
Should LLMs generate language that makes them seem human? Human-like language might improve user experience, but might also lead to deception, overreliance, and stereotyping. Asses…