3 papers
cs.HC2025
AI as a deliberative partner fosters intercultural empathy for Americans but fails for Latin American participants
Isabel Villanueva, Tara Bobinac, Binwei Yao +2
Despite increasing AI chatbot deployment in public discourse, empirical evidence on their capacity to foster intercultural empathy remains limited. Through a randomized experiment,…
cs.CL2025
No Preference Left Behind: Group Distributional Preference Optimization
Binwei Yao, Zefan Cai, Yun-Shiuan Chuang +4
Preferences within a group of people are not uniform but follow a distribution. While existing alignment methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) attempt to steer models t…
cs.CL2024
Improving Bilingual Capabilities of Language Models to Support Diverse Linguistic Practices in Education
Anand Syamkumar, Nora Tseng, Kaycie Barron +4
Large language models (LLMs) offer promise in generating educational content, providing instructor feedback, and reducing teacher workload on assessments. While prior studies have…