Papers by Lionel Wong
MedRedFlag: Investigating how LLMs Redirect Misconceptions in Real-World Health Communication (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used by lay users for medical advice, but they have not yet been tested for this crucial competency. |
| Approach: | They develop a semi-automated pipeline to curate MedRedFlag, a dataset of 1100+ reddit questions that require redirection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline compares state-of-the-art LLMs to those from clinicians to find out how they perform under real-world health communication. |
Language-Informed Synthesis of Rational Agent Models for Grounded Theory-of-Mind Reasoning On-the-fly (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Megan Wei, Tyler BrookeWilson, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Lionel Wong, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
| Challenge: | Language is a powerful source of information in social settings, especially in novel situations where language can provide both abstract information about the environment dynamics and concrete specifics about an agent that cannot be easily visually observed. |
| Approach: | They propose a language-informed rational agent synthesis framework that integrates linguistic and visual inputs to draw context-specific social inferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms ablations and state-of-the-art models on a range of social reasoning tasks derived from cognitive science experiments. |