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Shiyang Lai

6 accepted papers

2026

Representational Similarity and Model Behavior in Multi-Agent Interaction

ICML 2026poster

Researchers have shown that neural similarity among humans predicts social closeness and cooperative success, whereas innovation often emerges from interactions among dissimilar individuals. We investigate whether these principles extend to artificial intelligence by examining interactions between l…

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2026

Signal in the Noise: Polysemantic Interference Transfers and Predicts Cross-Model Influence

ICLR 2026poster

Polysemanticity is pervasive in language models and remains a major challenge for interpretation and model behavioral control. Leveraging sparse autoencoders (SAEs), we map the polysemantic topology of two small models (Pythia-70M and GPT-2-Small) to identify SAE feature pairs that are semantically…

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2024

Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behavior?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have been increasingly adopted as simulation tools to model humans in social science and role-playing applications. However, one fundamental question remains: can LLM agents really simulate human behavior? In this paper, we focus on one critical and elemental behavi…

2024

Hidden Persuaders: LLMs’ Political Leaning and Their Influence on Voters

EMNLP 2024main

Do LLMs have political leanings and are LLMs able to shift our political views? This paper explores these questions in the context of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Through a voting simulation, we demonstrate 18 open-weight and closed-source LLMs’ political preference for Biden over Trump. We…

2024

Position: Evolving AI Collectives Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation

ICML 2024poster

Large language model behavior is shaped by the language of those with whom they interact. This capacity and their increasing prevalence online portend that they will intentionally or unintentionally "program" one another and form emergent AI subjectivities, relationships, and collectives. Here, we c…

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