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Scalable and Robust LLM Unlearning by Correcting Responses with Retrieved Exclusions

Junbeom Kim, Kyuyoung Kim, Jihoon Tack, Dongha Lim, Jinwoo Shin

ArXiv | September 2025, Vol abs/2509.25973

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Population-Aligned Persona Generation for LLM-based Social Simulation

Zhengyu Hu, Zheyuan Xiao, Max Xiong, Yuxuan Lei, Tianfu Wang, Jianxun Lian, Kaize Ding, Ziang Xiao, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xing Xie

September 2025

arXiv | September 2025

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PICACO: Pluralistic In-Context Value Alignment of LLMs via Total Correlation Optimization

Han Jiang, Dongyao Zhu, Zhihua Wei, Xiaoyuan Yi, Ziang Xiao, Xing Xie

ICML 2026 | July 2025

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Bridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems

Lydia T. Liu, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Angela Zhou, Luke Guerdan, Jessica Hullman, Daniel Malinsky, Bryan Wilder, Simone Zhang, Hammaad Adam, Amanda Coston, Ben Laufer, Ezinne Nwankwo, Michael Zanger-Tishler, Eli Ben-Michael, Solon Barocas, Avi Feller, M. Gerchick, T. Gillis, Shion Guha, Daniel E. Ho, Lily Hu, K. Imai, Sayash Kapoor, Joshua R. Loftus, Razieh Nabi, Arvind Narayanan, Benjamin Recht, Juan Carlos Perdomo, Matthew Salganik, M. Sendak, A. Tolbert, Berk Ustun, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Angelina Wang, Ashia Wilson

ArXiv | July 2025, Vol abs/2507.05216

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Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems

Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu

Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025

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When 0 is good: instrumental learning with counterintuitive goals decreases working memory engagement

Ti-Fen Pan, Gaia Molinaro, Anne G. E. Collins

CogSci | July 2025, Vol 47: pp. 643-649

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Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems

Emma Harvey, Emily Sheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alex Chouldechova, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Alexandra Olteanu, Hanna Wallach

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 | July 2025

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Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI

Rishi Vanukuru, Payod Panda, Xinyue Chen, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel

DIS2025 | July 2025

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Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda

CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025

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Ownership, Not Just Happy Talk: Co-Designing a Participatory Large Language Model for Journalism

Emily Tseng, Meg Young, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Aimee Rinehart, Harini Suresh

FAccT | June 2025

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