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IssueBench: Millions of Realistic Prompts for Measuring Issue Bias in LLM Writing Assistance
Paul Röttger, Musashi Hinck, Valentin Hofmann +4
Large language models (LLMs) are helping millions of users write texts about diverse issues, and in doing so expose users to different ideas and perspectives. This creates concerns…
AutoPersuade: A Framework for Evaluating and Explaining Persuasive Arguments
Till Raphael Saenger, Musashi Hinck, Justin Grimmer +1
We introduce AutoPersuade, a three-part framework for constructing persuasive messages. First, we curate a large dataset of arguments with human evaluations. Next, we develop a nov…
Steering Large Language Models to Evaluate and Amplify Creativity
Matthew Lyle Olson, Neale Ratzlaff, Musashi Hinck +2
Although capable of generating creative text, Large Language Models (LLMs) are poor judges of what constitutes "creativity". In this work, we show that we can leverage this knowled…
Why do LLaVA Vision-Language Models Reply to Images in English?
Musashi Hinck, Carolin Holtermann, Matthew Lyle Olson +6
We uncover a surprising multilingual bias occurring in a popular class of multimodal vision-language models (VLMs). Including an image in the query to a LLaVA-style VLM significant…
LLaVA-Gemma: Accelerating Multimodal Foundation Models with a Compact Language Model
Musashi Hinck, Matthew L. Olson, David Cobbley +2
We train a suite of multimodal foundation models (MMFM) using the popular LLaVA framework with the recently released Gemma family of large language models (LLMs). Of particular int…
Political Compass or Spinning Arrow? Towards More Meaningful Evaluations for Values and Opinions in Large Language Models
Paul Röttger, Valentin Hofmann, Valentina Pyatkin +4
Much recent work seeks to evaluate values and opinions in large language models (LLMs) using multiple-choice surveys and questionnaires. Most of this work is motivated by concerns…