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R. Michael Alvarez

3 accepted papers

2026

On the Limits of LLM Adaptability: Impact of LLM Pre-Training on Annotation Task Performance

ICML 2026oral

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for zero-shot annotation and LLM-as-a-judge tasks, yet their reliability hinges on how pre-trained priors interact with user-provided instructions. We investigate three dimensions of this interaction: (1) how an LLM’s familiarity with da…

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2026

The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs

ICML 2026poster

Personality traits have long been studied as predictors of human behavior. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) suggest similar patterns may emerge in artificial systems, with advanced LLMs displaying consistent behavioral tendencies resembling human traits like agreeableness and self-reg…

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2025

Off-policy Predictive Control with Causal Sensitivity Analysis

UAI 2025

Predictive models are often deployed for decision-making tasks for which they were not explicitly trained. When only partial observations of the relevant state are available, as in most real-world applications, there is a strong possibility of hidden confounding. Therefore, partial observability oft

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