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This paper evaluates the performance of a large language model (LLM) based semantic search tool relative to a traditional keyword-based search for data discovery. Using real-world search behaviour, we compare outputs from a bespoke semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Mark Green , Maura Halstead , Caroline Jay , Richard Kingston , Alex Singleton , David Topping

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across diverse domains, yet they still encounter challenges such as insufficient domain-specific knowledge, biases, and hallucinations. This underscores the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Hongliu Cao , Ilias Driouich , Robin Singh , Eoin Thomas

Recently, the astonishing performance of large language models (LLMs) in natural language comprehension and generation tasks triggered lots of exploration of using them as central controllers to build agent systems. Multiple studies focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Chenyu Wang , Weixin Luo , Sixun Dong , Xiaohua Xuan , Zhengxin Li , Lin Ma , Shenghua Gao

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly explored as substitutes for human participants in cognitive tasks, but their ability to simulate human behavioral variability remains unclear. This study examines whether LLMs can approximate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mengyang Qiu , Zoe Brisebois , Siena Sun

Conducting usability testing like cognitive walkthrough (CW) can be costly. Recent developments in large language models (LLMs), with visual reasoning and UI navigation capabilities, present opportunities to automate CW. We explored whether…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ruican Zhong , David W. McDonald , Gary Hsieh

Traditional social science research often requires designing complex experiments across vast methodological spaces and depends on real human participants, making it labor-intensive, costly, and difficult to scale. Here we present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Lei Wang , Yuanzi Li , Jinchao Wu , Heyang Gao , Xiaohe Bo , Xu Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

A fundamental tension exists between the demand for sophisticated AI assistance in web search and the need for user data privacy. Current centralized models require users to transmit sensitive browsing data to external services, which…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Saber Zerhoudi , Michael Granitzer

This work leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to simulate human mobility, addressing challenges like high costs and privacy concerns in traditional models. Our hierarchical framework integrates persona generation, activity selection, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Chenlu Ju , Jiaxin Liu , Shobhit Sinha , Hao Xue , Flora Salim

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for accessing information on the web. Their truthfulness and factuality are thus of great interest. To help users make the right decisions about the information they get, LLMs should not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chenglei Si , Navita Goyal , Sherry Tongshuang Wu , Chen Zhao , Shi Feng , Hal Daumé , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed for simulating human behaviors across diverse domains. However, our position is that current LLM-based human simulations remain insufficiently reliable, as evidenced by significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Qian Wang , Jiaying Wu , Zichen Jiang , Zhenheng Tang , Bingqiao Luo , Nuo Chen , Wei Chen , Bingsheng He

Graphical User Interface (GUI) Agents, powered by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have shown great potential for task automation on computing devices such as computers and mobile phones. However, existing agents face challenges in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yuhang Liu , Pengxiang Li , Zishu Wei , Congkai Xie , Xueyu Hu , Xinchen Xu , Shengyu Zhang , Xiaotian Han , Hongxia Yang , Fei Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially influenced various software engineering tasks. Indeed, in the case of software refactoring, traditional LLMs have shown the ability to reduce development time and enhance code quality.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Khouloud Oueslati , Maxime Lamothe , Foutse Khomh

Owing to powerful natural language processing and generative capabilities, large language model (LLM) agents have emerged as a promising solution for enhancing recommendation systems via user simulation. However, in the realm of video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Siran Chen , Boyu Chen , Chenyun Yu , Yuxiao Luo , Ouyang Yi , Lei Cheng , Chengxiang Zhuo , Zang Li , Yali Wang

With large language models (LLMs), conversational search engines shift how users retrieve information from the web by enabling natural conversations to express their search intents over multiple turns. Users' natural conversation embodies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Hyunwoo Kim , Yoonseo Choi , Taehyun Yang , Honggu Lee , Chaneon Park , Yongju Lee , Jin Young Kim , Juho Kim

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the way that we interact with artificial intelligence systems through natural language. However, LLMs often misinterpret user queries because of their uncertain intention, leading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jing-Cheng Pang , Heng-Bo Fan , Pengyuan Wang , Jia-Hao Xiao , Nan Tang , Si-Hang Yang , Chengxing Jia , Sheng-Jun Huang , Yang Yu

Query optimization is essential for efficient SQL query execution in DBMS, and remains attractive over time due to the growth of data volumes and advances in hardware. Existing traditional optimizers struggle with the cumbersome hand-tuning…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Suchen Liu , Jun Gao , Yinjun Han , Yang Lin

In recent developments within the research community, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in creating fully autonomous agents has garnered significant interest. Despite this, LLM-based agents frequently demonstrate notable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Xueyang Feng , Zhi-Yuan Chen , Yujia Qin , Yankai Lin , Xu Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Ji-Rong Wen

We introduce V-Agent, a novel multi-agent platform designed for advanced video search and interactive user-system conversations. By fine-tuning a vision-language model (VLM) with a small video preference dataset and enhancing it with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 SunYoung Park , Jong-Hyeon Lee , Youngjune Kim , Daegyu Sung , Younghyun Yu , Young-rok Cha , Jeongho Ju

Large language models (LLM) are perceived to offer promising potentials for automating security tasks, such as those found in security operation centers (SOCs). As a first step towards evaluating this perceived potential, we investigate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Kumar Shashwat , Francis Hahn , Xinming Ou , Dmitry Goldgof , Lawrence Hall , Jay Ligatti , S. Raj Rajgopalan , Armin Ziaie Tabari

While Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents can be used to create highly engaging interactive applications through prompting personality traits and contextual data, effectively assessing their personalities has proven challenging. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Eswari Jayakumar , Niladri Sekhar Dash , Debasmita Mukherjee