Papers by Shrestha Mohanty
On the Relationship between Truth and Political Bias in Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)
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Suyash Fulay, William Brannon, Shrestha Mohanty, Cassandra Overney, Elinor Poole-Dayan, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara
| Challenge: | Language model alignment research often attempts to ensure that models are helpful and harmless, but can obscure how improving one aspect might impact the other. |
| Approach: | They analyze the relationship between truthfulness and political bias in language models. |
| Outcome: | The results show that optimizing models for truthfulness results in a left-leaning political bias. |
Bridging Context Gaps: Enhancing Comprehension in Long-Form Social Conversations Through Contextualized Excerpts (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent rise in polarization has led to a rise in the use of loud and extreme voices in public spaces. |
| Approach: | They propose ways to parse and convey information from small-group recorded conversations . they show that LLMs can provide socially relevant context to improve comprehension . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models improve comprehension, readability, and empathy in small-group conversations . the proposed models struggle with capturing key social aspects, the authors show . |