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Mona T. Diab

12 accepted papers

2026

Generative Value Conflicts Reveal LLM Priorities

ICLR 2026poster

Past work seeks to align large language model (LLM)-based assistants with a target set of values, but such assistants are frequently forced to make tradeoffs *between* values when deployed. In response to the scarcity of value conflict in existing alignment datasets, we introduce ConflictScope, an a…

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2025

BIG5-CHAT: Shaping LLM Personalities Through Training on Human-Grounded Data

ACL 2025long

In this work, we tackle the challenge of embedding realistic human personality traits into LLMs. Previous approaches have primarily focused on prompt-based methods that describe the behavior associated with the desired personality traits, suffering from realism and validity issues. To address these…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Biases Propagate in Encoder-based Vision-Language Models: A Systematic Analysis From Intrinsic Measures to Zero-shot Retrieval Outcomes

ACL 2025finding

To build fair AI systems we need to understand how social-group biases intrinsic to foundational encoder-based vision-language models (VLMs) manifest in biases in downstream tasks. In this study, we demonstrate that intrinsic biases in VLM representations systematically “carry over” or propagate int…

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2025

Decoding Dark Matter: Specialized Sparse Autoencoders for Interpreting Rare Concepts in Foundation Models

NAACL 2025findings

Understanding and mitigating the potential risks associated with foundation models (FMs) hinges on developing effective interpretability methods. Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising tool for disentangling FM representations, but they struggle to capture rare, yet crucial concepts…

2025

From Complexity to Clarity: AI/NLP’s Role in Regulatory Compliance

ACL 2025finding

Regulatory data compliance is a cornerstone of trust and accountability in critical sectors like finance, healthcare, and technology, yet its complexity poses significant challenges for organizations worldwide. Recent advances in natural language processing, particularly large language models, have…

2025

Humanizing Machines: Rethinking LLM Anthropomorphism Through a Multi-Level Framework of Design

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit anthropomorphism characteristics – human-like qualities portrayed across their outlook, language, behavior, and reasoning functions. Such characteristics enable more intuitive and engaging human-AI interactions. However, current research on anthropom

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2025

Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders

NAACL 2025long

While recent work has found that vision-language models trained under the Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework contain intrinsic social biases, the extent to which different upstream pre-training features of the framework relate to these biases, and hence how intrinsic bias and d…

2025

SimBA: Simplifying Benchmark Analysis Using Performance Matrices Alone

EMNLP 2025

Modern language models are evaluated on large benchmarks, which are difficult to make sense of, especially for model selection.Looking at the raw evaluation numbers themselves using a model-centric lens, we propose SimBA, a three phase framework to Simplify Benchmark Analysis. The three phases of Si

2025

Synthetic Socratic Debates: Examining Persona Effects on Moral Decision and Persuasion Dynamics

EMNLP 2025

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in morally sensitive domains, it is crucial to understand how persona traits affect their moral reasoning and persuasive behavior. We present the first large-scale study of multi-dimensional persona effects in AI-AI debates over real-world moral

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2025

Toward Global AI Inclusivity: A Large-Scale Multilingual Terminology Dataset (GIST)

ACL 2025finding

The field of machine translation has achieved significant advancements, yet domain-specific terminology translation, particularly in AI, remains challenging. This work introduces GIST, a large-scale multilingual AI terminology dataset containing 5K terms extracted from top AI conference papers spann…

2024

Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?

ICLR 2024poster

Causal inference is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. While the field of CausalNLP has attracted much interest in the recent years, existing causal inference datasets in NLP primarily rely on discovering causality from empirical knowledge (e.g., commonsense knowledge). In this work, we pro…