3 papers
cs.CL2026
The Illusion of Intervention: Your LLM-Simulated Experiment is an Observational Study
Victoria Lin, Taedong Yun, Maja MatariÄ +3
Large language models (LLMs) show potential as simulators of human behavior, offering a scalable way to study responses to interventions. However, because LLMs are trained largely…
cs.LG2026
Omitted Variable Bias in Language Models Under Distribution Shift
Victoria Lin, Louis-Philippe Morency, Eli Ben-Michael
Despite their impressive performance on a wide variety of tasks, modern language models remain susceptible to distribution shifts, exhibiting brittle behavior when evaluated on dat…
cs.CL2025
Isolated Causal Effects of Natural Language
Victoria Lin, Louis-Philippe Morency, Eli Ben-Michael
As language technologies become widespread, it is important to understand how changes in language affect reader perceptions and behaviors. These relationships may be formalized as…