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Michael J. Wooldridge

8 accepted papers

2025

Assessing Dialect Fairness and Robustness of Large Language Models in Reasoning Tasks

ACL 2025long

Language is not monolithic. While benchmarks, including those designed for multiple languages, are often used as proxies to evaluate the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), they tend to overlook the nuances of within-language variation and thus fail to model the experience of speakers of no…

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2025

Emergent Risk Awareness in Rational Agents under Resource Constraints

NeurIPS 2025poster

Advanced reasoning models with agentic capabilities (AI agents) are deployed to interact with humans and to solve sequential decision‑making problems under (often approximate) utility functions and internal models. When such problems have resource or failure constraints where action sequences may be…

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2025

Language Models Are Implicitly Continuous

ICLR 2025poster

Language is typically modelled with discrete sequences. However, the most successful approaches to language modelling, namely neural networks, are continuous and smooth function approximators. In this work, we show that Transformer-based language models implicitly learn to represent sentences as con…

2025

Large Language Models Miss the Multi-agent Mark

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent interest in Multi-Agent Systems of Large Language Models (MAS LLMs) has led to an increase in frameworks leveraging multiple LLMs to tackle complex tasks. However, much of this literature appropriates the terminology of MAS without engaging with its foundational principles. In this position…

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2025

Learning Likelihood-Free Reference Priors

ICML 2025poster

Simulation modeling offers a flexible approach to constructing high-fidelity synthetic representations of complex real-world systems. However, the increased complexity of such models introduces additional complications, for example when carrying out statistical inference procedures. This has motivat…

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2025

Out-of-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

We study how large language models (LLMs) reason about memorized knowledge through simple binary relations such as equality ( = ), inequality ( < ), and inclusion ( ⊂ ). Unlike in-context reasoning, the axioms (e.g., a < b, b < c ) are only seen during training and not provided in the task prompt (e

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2024

A Notion of Complexity for Theory of Mind via Discrete World Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Theory of Mind (ToM) can be used to assess the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex scenarios where social reasoning is required. While the research community has proposed many ToM benchmarks, their hardness varies greatly, and their complexity is not well defined. This work propo…

2024

Interventionally Consistent Surrogates for Complex Simulation Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large-scale simulation models of complex socio-technical systems provide decision-makers with high-fidelity testbeds in which policy interventions can be evaluated and _what-if_ scenarios explored. Unfortunately, the high computational cost of such models inhibits their widespread use in policy-maki…

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