3 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2025
Understanding Common Ground Misalignment in Goal-Oriented Dialog: A Case-Study with Ubuntu Chat Logs
Rupak Sarkar, Neha Srikanth, Taylor Hudson +3
While it is commonly accepted that maintaining common ground plays a role in conversational success, little prior research exists connecting conversational grounding to success in…
cs.CL2025
Conversational User-AI Intervention: A Study on Prompt Rewriting for Improved LLM Response Generation
Rupak Sarkar, Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Nirupama Chandrasekaran +4
Human-LLM conversations are increasingly becoming more pervasive in peoples' professional and personal lives, yet many users still struggle to elicit helpful responses from LLM Cha…