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cs.CL2026

Language Models Encode the Contextual Truth of Propositions

Rupak Sarkar, Pritika Ramu, Rachel Rudinger

Prior work has shown that LLMs encode the truth of factual propositions along linear directions in activation space. It's unclear how these representations extend to contextual tru…

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Sycophancy Undermines Epistemic Vigilance in Cooperative Vision-Language Tasks

Rupak Sarkar, Neha Srikanth, Saloni Gupta +3

To maintain common ground in cooperative conversation, humans iteratively update their beliefs as conversation participants share new information; participants who are epistemicall…

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(Im)Paired Programming: Coding Agents Improve Productivity but Harm Understanding

Nishant Balepur, Connor Baumler, Valerie Chen +3

The study finds that AI coding assistants help students finish a programming task faster but reduce their understanding of the code, making it harder for them to extend it later.

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Reheat Nachos for Dinner? Evaluating AI Support for Cross-Cultural Communication of Neologisms

Dayeon Ki, Yu Hou, Rachel Rudinger +3

Neologisms and emerging slang are central to daily conversation, yet challenging for non-native speakers (NNS) to interpret and use appropriately in cross-cultural communication wi…

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DRACULA: Hunting for the Actions Users Want Deep Research Agents to Execute

Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +9

Scientific Deep Research (DR) agents answer user queries by synthesizing research papers into multi-section reports. User feedback can improve their utility, but existing protocols…

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DiscoTrace: Representing and Comparing Answering Strategies of Humans and LLMs in Information-Seeking Question Answering

Neha Srikanth, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Rachel Rudinger

We introduce DiscoTrace, a method to identify the rhetorical strategies that answerers use when responding to information-seeking questions. DiscoTrace represents answers as a sequ…