3 papers
cs.MA2026
Mechanism Plausibility in Generative Agent-Based Modeling
Patrick Zhao, David Huu Pham, Nicholas Vincent
Large language models (LLMs) can generate high-level diverse phenomena without explicitly programmed rules. This capability has led to their adoption within different agent-based m…
cs.CL2025
Let Them Down Easy! Contextual Effects of LLM Guardrails on User Perceptions and Preferences
Mingqian Zheng, Wenjia Hu, Patrick Zhao +5
Current LLMs are trained to refuse potentially harmful input queries regardless of whether users actually had harmful intents, causing a tradeoff between safety and user experience…
cs.CL2025
An Audit and Analysis of LLM-Assisted Health Misinformation Jailbreaks Against LLMs
Ayana Hussain, Patrick Zhao, Nicholas Vincent
Large Language Models (LLMs) are a double-edged sword capable of generating harmful misinformation -- inadvertently, or when prompted by "jailbreak" attacks that attempt to produce…