Papers by Qianou Ma
What Prompts Don’t Say: Understanding and Managing Underspecification in LLM Prompts (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Under-specified prompts are 2x as likely to regress across model or prompt changes, authors show . eliot safina: a lack of explicit prompts can cause frustrations and failures . |
| Approach: | They propose requirements-aware prompt optimization mechanisms that improve performance by 4.8% over baselines. |
| Outcome: | The proposed mechanisms improve prompt performance by 4.8% over baselines. |
SPHERE: An Evaluation Card for Human-AI Systems (2025.findings-acl)
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Dora Zhao, Qianou Ma, Xinran Zhao, Chenglei Si, Chenyang Yang, Ryan Louie, Ehud Reiter, Diyi Yang, Tongshuang Wu
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation methods and standards for human-AI systems are unclear, especially for large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose an evaluation card SPHERE which provides a template for evaluation protocols . they outline current evaluation practices and areas for improvement . |
| Outcome: | The evaluation card provides a template for designing evaluation protocols . it outlines current evaluation practices and areas for improvement . |
RECAP: An End-to-End Platform for Capturing, Replaying, and Analyzing AI-Assisted Programming Interactions (2026.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Deployed in a university software engineering course, RECAP captured 2,034 prompts and 8,239 code edits from 41 students across a multi-week project. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source platform that passively records AI chat sessions and fine-grained code edits inside VS Code without disrupting the developer’s workflow. |
| Outcome: | The open-source platform captures 2,034 prompts and 8,239 code edits from 41 students across a multi-week project. |