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Allison Koenecke

4 accepted papers

2026

Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment Reveals Trade-offs in Safety, Inclusivity, and Model Behavior

AAAI 2026technical

Although large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained using human feedback for safety and alignment with human values, alignment decisions often overlook human social diversity. This study examines how incorporating pluralistic values affects LLM behavior by systematically evaluating demogr

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2025

Analyzing Dialectical Biases in LLMs for Knowledge and Reasoning Benchmarks

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) are ubiquitous in modern day natural language processing. However, previous work has shown degraded LLM performance for under-represented English dialects. We analyze the effects of typifying “standard” American English language questions as non-”standard” dialectal vari

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2025

SPHERE: Unveiling Spatial Blind Spots in Vision-Language Models Through Hierarchical Evaluation

ACL 2025long

Current vision-language models may grasp basic spatial cues and simple directions (e.g. left, right, front, back), but struggle with the multi-dimensional spatial reasoning necessary for human-like understanding and real-world applications. To address this gap, we develop SPHERE (Spatial Perception…

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2023

Should I Stop or Should I Go: Early Stopping with Heterogeneous Populations

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Randomized experiments often need to be stopped prematurely due to the treatment having an unintended harmful effect. Existing methods that determine when to stop an experiment early are typically applied to the data in aggregate and do not account for treatment effect heterogeneity. In this paper,…