10 papers
TEMPER: Testing Emotional Perturbation in Quantitative Reasoning
Atahan Dokme, Benjamin Reichman, Larry Heck
Large language models are trained and evaluated on quantitative reasoning tasks written in clean, emotionally neutral language. However, real-world queries are often wrapped in fru…
Emotion is Not Just a Label: Latent Emotional Factors in LLM Processing
Benjamin Reichman, Adar Avsian, Samuel Webster +1
Large language models are routinely deployed on text that varies widely in emotional tone, yet their reasoning behavior is typically evaluated without accounting for emotion as a s…
Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language Models
Benjamin Reichman, Adar Avsian, Larry Heck
This work investigates how large language models (LLMs) internally represent emotion by analyzing the geometry of their hidden-state space. The paper identifies a low-dimensional e…
SensorChat: Answering Qualitative and Quantitative Questions during Long-Term Multimodal Sensor Interactions
Xiaofan Yu, Lanxiang Hu, Benjamin Reichman +5
Natural language interaction with sensing systems is crucial for addressing users' personal concerns and providing health-related insights into their daily lives. When a user asks…
Emotional RAG LLMs: Reading Comprehension for the Open Internet
Benjamin Reichman, Adar Avsian, Kartik Talamadupula +2
Queries to large language models (LLMs) can be divided into two parts: the instruction/question and the accompanying context. The context for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) s…
Outside Knowledge Conversational Video (OKCV) Dataset -- Dialoguing over Videos
Benjamin Reichman, Constantin Patsch, Jack Truxal +2
In outside knowledge visual question answering (OK-VQA), the model must identify relevant visual information within an image and incorporate external knowledge to accurately respon…