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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Moral Lenses, Political Coordinates: Towards Ideological Positioning of Morally Conditioned LLMs

Chenchen Yuan, Bolei Ma, Zheyu Zhang +3

While recent research has systematically documented political orientation in large language models (LLMs), existing evaluations rely primarily on direct probing or demographic pers…

cs.CL2025

Decomposed Prompting: Probing Multilingual Linguistic Structure Knowledge in Large Language Models

Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Bolei Ma +4

Probing the multilingual knowledge of linguistic structure in LLMs, often characterized as sequence labeling, faces challenges with maintaining output templates in current text-to-…

stat.ME2025

Aligning NLP Models with Target Population Perspectives using PAIR: Population-Aligned Instance Replication

Stephanie Eckman, Bolei Ma, Christoph Kern +3

Models trained on crowdsourced annotations may not reflect population views, if those who work as annotators do not represent the broader population. In this paper, we propose PAIR…

cs.CL2025

Pragmatics in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey on Datasets, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges

Bolei Ma, Yuting Li, Wei Zhou +7

Understanding pragmatics-the use of language in context-is crucial for developing NLP systems capable of interpreting nuanced language use. Despite recent advances in language tech…

cs.CL2025

Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study

Bolei Ma, Berk Yoztyurk, Anna-Carolina Haensch +5

In recent research, large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to investigate public opinions. This study investigates the algorithmic fidelity of LLMs, i.e., the abi…

cs.CL2025

Why Lift so Heavy? Slimming Large Language Models by Cutting Off the Layers

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Bolei Ma +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess outstanding capabilities in addressing various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the sheer size of these models poses challenge…