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Emotional prompting - the use of specific emotional diction in prompt engineering - has shown increasing promise in improving large language model (LLM) performance, truthfulness, and responsibility. However these studies have been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ameen Patel , Felix Lee , Kyle Liang , Joseph Thomas

Emotions exert an immense influence over human behavior and cognition in both commonplace and high-stress tasks. Discussions of whether or how to integrate large language models (LLMs) into everyday life (e.g., acting as proxies for, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Mattson Ogg , Chace Ashcraft , Ritwik Bose , Raphael Norman-Tenazas , Michael Wolmetz

Large language models have increasingly been proposed as a powerful replacement for classical agent-based models (ABMs) to simulate social dynamics. By using LLMs as a proxy for human behavior, the hope of this new approach is to be able to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Da Ju , Adina Williams , Brian Karrer , Maximilian Nickel

Situations and events evoke emotions in humans, but to what extent do they inform the prediction of emotion detection models? This work investigates how well human-annotated emotion triggers correlate with features that models deemed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Smriti Singh , Cornelia Caragea , Junyi Jessy Li

Although large language models (LLMs) have tremendous utility, trustworthiness is still a chief concern: models often generate incorrect information with high confidence. While contextual information can help guide generation, identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiarui Liu , Jivitesh Jain , Mona Diab , Nishant Subramani

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), yet the influence of prompt sentiment, a latent affective characteristic of input text, remains underexplored. This study systematically examines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Vishal Gandhi , Sagar Gandhi

Large Language Models (LLMs) often display overconfidence, presenting information with unwarranted certainty in high-stakes contexts. We investigate the internal basis of this behavior via mechanistic interpretability. Using open-sourced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hikaru Tsujimura , Arush Tagade

Understanding emotion from speech requires sensitivity to both lexical and acoustic cues. However, it remains unclear whether large audio language models (LALMs) genuinely process acoustic information or rely primarily on lexical content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jingyi Chen , Zhimeng Guo , Jiyun Chun , Pichao Wang , Andrew Perrault , Micha Elsner

Code review is a socio-technical practice, yet how software engineers engage in Large Language Model (LLM)-assisted code reviews compared to human peer-led reviews is less understood. We report a two-phase qualitative study with 20 software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Adam Alami , Nathan Cassee , Thiago Rocha Silva , Elda Paja , Neil A. Ernst

Emotion regulation is a crucial element in dealing with emotional events and has positive effects on mental health. This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of emotional events by introducing a new French corpus of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Gustave Cortal , Alain Finkel , Patrick Paroubek , Lina Ye

Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in Natural Language Processing tasks, including Machine Translation (MT). In this work, we propose a novel MT pipeline that integrates emotion information extracted from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Charles Brazier , Jean-Luc Rouas

The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) provides human-centered Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with a glimmer of hope. Empathy serves as a key emotional attribute of humanity, playing an irreplaceable role in human-centered…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Linzhuang Sun , Yao Dong , Nan Xu , Jingxuan Wei , Bihui Yu , Yin Luo

Emotion recognition in social situations is a complex task that requires integrating information from both facial expressions and the situational context. While traditional approaches to automatic emotion recognition have focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bin Han , Cleo Yau , Su Lei , Jonathan Gratch

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency across diverse tasks, exhibiting emergent properties such as semantic prompt comprehension, In-Context Learning (ICL), and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. Despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yuling Jiao , Yanming Lai , Huazhen Lin , Wensen Ma , Houduo Qi , Defeng Sun

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on sophisticated perception systems to interpret their surroundings, a cornerstone for safe navigation and decision-making. The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into AV perception frameworks offers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Athanasios Karagounis

Although behavioral studies have documented numerical reasoning errors in large language models (LLMs), the underlying representational mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesize that numerical attributes occupy shared latent subspaces and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hirohane Takagi , Gouki Minegishi , Shota Kizawa , Issey Sukeda , Hitomi Yanaka

Humans convey emotions through daily dialogues, making emotion understanding a crucial step of affective intelligence. To understand emotions in dialogues, machines are asked to recognize the emotion for an utterance (Emotion Recognition in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jiangnan Li , Zheng Lin , Lanrui Wang , Qingyi Si , Yanan Cao , Mo Yu , Peng Fu , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

While recent studies have examined the leaning impact of large language model (LLM) in educational contexts, the affective dynamics of LLM-mediated tutoring remain insufficiently understood. This work introduces the first ensemble-LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Chenyu Zhang , Sharifa Alghowinem , Cynthia Breazeal

Understanding emotions is fundamental to human interaction and experience. Humans easily infer emotions from situations or facial expressions, situations from emotions, and do a variety of other affective cognition. How adept is modern AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Kanishk Gandhi , Zoe Lynch , Jan-Philipp Fränken , Kayla Patterson , Sharon Wambu , Tobias Gerstenberg , Desmond C. Ong , Noah D. Goodman