3 papers
cs.HC2026
Anthropomorphism and Trust in Human-Large Language Model interactions
Akila Kadambi, Ylenia D'Elia, Tanishka Shah +8
With large language models (LLMs) becoming increasingly prevalent in daily life, so too has the tendency to attribute to them human-like minds and emotions, or anthropomorphize the…
q-bio.NC2025
Embodiment in multimodal large language models
Akila Kadambi, Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Antonio Damasio +2
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated extraordinary progress in bridging textual and visual inputs. However, MLLMs still face challenges in situated physical a…
cs.CV2025
Evaluating point-light biological motion in multimodal large language models
Akila Kadambi, Marco Iacoboni, Lisa Aziz-Zadeh +1
Humans can extract rich semantic information from minimal visual cues, as demonstrated by point-light displays (PLDs), which consist of sparse sets of dots localized to key joints…