3 papers
cs.HC2026
Priming, Path-dependence, and Plasticity: Understanding the molding of user-LLM interaction and its implications from (many) chat logs in the wild
Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno
User interactions with LLMs are shaped by prior experiences and individual exploration, but in-lab studies do not provide system designers with visibility into these in-the-wild fa…
cs.CL2025
Show or Tell? Modeling the evolution of request-making in Human-LLM conversations
Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno
Designing user-centered LLM systems requires understanding how people use them, but patterns of user behavior are often masked by the variability of queries. In this work, we intro…
cs.CL2025
What We Talk About When We Talk About LMs: Implicit Paradigm Shifts and the Ship of Language Models
Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski
The term Language Models (LMs) as a time-specific collection of models of interest is constantly reinvented, with its referents updated much like the rep…