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20232026
most citedMoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks

10 citations · 15 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.AI2026

Discovering High-Quality Chess Puzzles with Offline Reinforcement Learning

Allen Nie, Anirudhan Badrinath, Nicholas Tomlin +5

Learning and skill mastery require extensive and deliberate practice. In many learning settings, producing high-quality pedagogical materials can require a high level of domain exp…

cs.LG2026

Understanding the Challenges in Iterative Generative Optimization with LLMs

Allen Nie, Xavier Daull, Zhiyi Kuang +10

Generative optimization uses large language models (LLMs) to iteratively improve artifacts (such as code, workflows or prompts) using execution feedback. It is a promising approach…

cs.LG2025

Formalizing Learning from Language Feedback with Provable Guarantees

Wanqiao Xu, Allen Nie, Ruijie Zheng +3

Interactively learning from observation and language feedback is an increasingly studied area driven by the emergence of large language model (LLM) agents. Despite impressive empir…

cs.CY2024

The GPT Surprise: Offering Large Language Model Chat in a Massive Coding Class Reduced Engagement but Increased Adopters Exam Performances

Allen Nie, Yash Chandak, Miroslav Suzara +6

Large language models (LLMs) are quickly being adopted in a wide range of learning experiences, especially via ubiquitous and broadly accessible chat interfaces like ChatGPT and Co…

cs.CL20243 cited

Rel-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance

Kaitlyn Zhou, Jena D. Hwang, Xiang Ren +3

The ability to communicate uncertainty, risk, and limitation is crucial for the safety of large language models. However, current evaluations of these abilities rely on simple cali…

cs.AI20242 cited

The Importance of Directional Feedback for LLM-based Optimizers

Allen Nie, Ching-An Cheng, Andrey Kolobov +1

We study the potential of using large language models (LLMs) as an interactive optimizer for solving maximization problems in a text space using natural language and numerical feed…