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Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities, but aligning their outputs with human values and preferences remains a significant challenge. Existing alignment methods primarily focus on positive examples while overlooking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shiqi Qiao , Ning Xv , Biao Liu , Xin Geng

This study investigates the behaviors of Large Language Models (LLMs) when faced with conflicting prompts versus their internal memory. This will not only help to understand LLMs' decision mechanism but also benefit real-world applications,…

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Moderating offensive, hateful, and toxic language has always been an important but challenging topic in the domain of safe use in NLP. The emerging large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, can potentially further accentuate this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Boyang Zhang , Xinyue Shen , Wai Man Si , Zeyang Sha , Zeyuan Chen , Ahmed Salem , Yun Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are central to reasoning, writing, and decision-support workflows, yet users lack consistent control over how they reason and express outputs. Conventional prompt engineering relies on verbose natural-language…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Mostapha Kalami Heris

Machine learning models are widely used in real-world applications. However, their complexity makes it often challenging to interpret the rationale behind their decisions. Counterfactual explanations (CEs) have emerged as a viable solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Muhammad Suffian , Jose M. Alonso-Moral , Alessandro Bogliolo

The field of prompt engineering is becoming an essential phenomenon in artificial intelligence. It is altering how data scientists interact with large language models (LLMs) for analytics applications. This research paper shares empirical…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Snehasish Paul , Rohit Kumar , Laxman Das

In recent research, human-understandable explanations of machine learning models have received a lot of attention. Often explanations are given in form of model simplifications or visualizations. However, as shown in cognitive science as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Johannes Rabold , Michael Siebers , Ute Schmid

The use of generative AI (GenAI) tools has fundamentally transformed software development. Central to this shift is prompt engineering, the practice of crafting textual prompts to guide GenAI tools in generating useful content. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Daniel Otten , Trevor Stalnaker , Nathan Wintersgill , Oscar Chaparro , Denys Poshyvanyk

Counterfactual Explanations (CEs) are an important tool in Algorithmic Recourse for addressing two questions: 1. What are the crucial factors that led to an automated prediction/decision? 2. How can these factors be changed to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xuan Zhao , Klaus Broelemann , Gjergji Kasneci

Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models in particular, are disrupting Computer Science Education. They are proving increasingly capable at more and more challenges. Some educators argue that they pose a serious threat to computing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Brent N. Reeves , James Prather , Paul Denny , Juho Leinonen , Stephen MacNeil , Brett A. Becker , Andrew Luxton-Reilly

In Explainable AI (XAI), counterfactual explanations (CEs) are a well-studied method to communicate feature relevance through contrastive reasoning of "what if" to explain AI models' predictions. However, they only focus on important (i.e.,…

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Programming is essential to modern scientific research, yet most scientists report inadequate training for the software development their work demands. Generative AI tools capable of code generation may support scientific programmers, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gabrielle O'Brien , Alexis Parker , Nasir Eisty , Jeffrey Carver

The rapid advancements in large language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are making their broad application in the high-stakes testing context more likely. Use of generative AI in the scoring of constructed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jodi M. Casabianca , Daniel F. McCaffrey , Matthew S. Johnson , Naim Alper , Vladimir Zubenko

Generative artificial intelligence models show an amazing performance creating unique content automatically just by being given a prompt by the user, which is revolutionizing several fields such as marketing and design. Not only are there…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Adriana Fernández de Caleya Vázquez , Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

What underlies intuitive human thinking? One approach to this question is to compare the cognitive dynamics of humans and large language models (LLMs). However, such a comparison requires a method to quantitatively analyze AI cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Makoto Sato

Many commonsense reasoning NLP tasks involve choosing between one or more possible answers to a question or prompt based on knowledge that is often implicit. Large pretrained language models (PLMs) can achieve near-human performance on such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Bhargavi Paranjape , Julian Michael , Marjan Ghazvininejad , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to generate texts that pose risks of misuse, such as plagiarism, planting fake reviews on e-commerce platforms, or creating inflammatory false tweets. Consequently, detecting whether a text is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Xiao Yu , Yuang Qi , Kejiang Chen , Guoqiang Chen , Xi Yang , Pengyuan Zhu , Xiuwei Shang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Machine learning plays a role in many deployed decision systems, often in ways that are difficult or impossible to understand by human stakeholders. Explaining, in a human-understandable way, the relationship between the input and output of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Sahil Verma , Varich Boonsanong , Minh Hoang , Keegan E. Hines , John P. Dickerson , Chirag Shah

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) gives rise to ethical concerns about their performance, while opening new avenues for developing toxic language detection techniques. However, LLMs' unethical output and their capability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xi Chen , Shuo Wang

A fundamental research goal for Explainable AI (XAI) is to build models that are capable of reasoning through the generation of natural language explanations. However, the methodologies to design and evaluate explanation-based inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Marco Valentino , André Freitas