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Myra Cheng

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mitigating Social Sycophancy via Pluralistic Preference Optimization

Personal advice, including relationship advice, now ranks among the most common uses of generative AI. But language models (LMs) exhibit sycophancy: they affirm users much more often than humans do, which can make people overconfident and less willing to repair their relationships after a conflict. Prior work on mitiga...

Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Myra Cheng, Xiao-Xuan Hou et al. · 0 citations

#natural language process... Conference Feb 2025

Thinking beyond the anthropomorphic paradigm benefits LLM research

This position paper analyses hundreds of thousands of research articles to present empirical evidence of the prevalence and growth of anthropomorphic terminology in research on large language models (LLMs), and argues for challenging the deeper assumptions reflected in this terminology and broadening beyond them to ope...

Lujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng · Annual Meeting of the Associ... · 17 citations · ⚡2