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Valerie Chen

13 accepted papers

2026

EditBench: Evaluating LLM Abilities to Perform Real-World Instructed Code Edits

ICLR 2026oral

Instructed code editing, where LLMs directly modify a developer's existing code based on a user instruction, is becoming a widely used interaction mode in AI coding assistants. However, few benchmarks directly evaluate this capability and current datasets often rely on artificial sources. We introdu…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

GameDevBench: Evaluating Agentic Capabilities Through Game Development

ICML 2026poster

While coding agents have advanced rapidly, progress on multimodal agents has lagged behind, largely due to a gap between the unimodal nature of code and other multimodal computer applications. Game development bridges the modality gap, mirroring software development's complexity in terms of large co…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

How can we assess human-agent interactions? Case studies in software agent design

ICML 2026poster

While benchmarks measure the accuracy of LLM-powered agents, they mostly assume full automation, failing to represent the collaborative nature of real-world use cases. In this paper, we make two major steps towards the rigorous assessment of human-agent interactions. First, we propose PULSE, a frame…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Measuring LLM Novelty As The Frontier Of Original And High-Quality Output

ICLR 2026poster

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for ideation and scientific discovery, it is important to evaluate their ability to generate novel output. Prior work evaluates novelty as originality with respect to model training data, but original outputs can be of low quality. In contrast, n…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

TOM-SWE: User Mental Modeling For Software Engineering Agents

ICML 2026poster

Recent advances in coding agents have made them capable of planning, editing, running, and testing complex code bases. Despite their growing ability in coding tasks, these systems still struggle to infer and track user intent, especially when instructions are underspecified or context-dependent. To …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Copilot Arena: A Platform for Code LLM Evaluation in the Wild

ICML 2025poster

Evaluating in-the-wild coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) is a challenging endeavor with no existing solution. We introduce Copilot Arena, a platform to collect user preferences through native integration into a developer's working environment. Copilot Arena comprises a novel interf…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Learning Personalized Decision Support Policies

AAAI 2025technical

Individual human decision-makers may benefit from different forms of support to improve decision outcomes, but when will each form of support yield better outcomes? In this work, we posit that personalizing access to decision support tools can be an effective mechanism for instantiating the appropri…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2025

When Benchmarks Talk: Re-Evaluating Code LLMs with Interactive Feedback

ACL 2025finding

Programming with a coding assistant is a fundamentally interactive process, yet existing static benchmarks fail to capture key features of model-user collaboration. We introduce an interactive evaluation pipeline to examine how LLMs incorporate different types of feedback in a collaborative setting,…

2024

On the Importance of Application-Grounded Experimental Design for Evaluating Explainable ML Methods

AAAI 2024technical

Most existing evaluations of explainable machine learning (ML) methods rely on simplifying assumptions or proxies that do not reflect real-world use cases; the handful of more robust evaluations on real-world settings have shortcomings in their design, generally leading to overestimation of methods'…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2022

Bayesian Persuasion for Algorithmic Recourse

NeurIPS 2022accept

When subjected to automated decision-making, decision subjects may strategically modify their observable features in ways they believe will maximize their chances of receiving a favorable decision. In many practical situations, the underlying assessment rule is deliberately kept secret to avoid gami…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2022

Use-Case-Grounded Simulations for Explanation Evaluation

NeurIPS 2022accept

A growing body of research runs human subject evaluations to study whether providing users with explanations of machine learning models can help them with practical real-world use cases. However, running user studies is challenging and costly, and consequently each study typically only evaluates a l…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2021

Ask Your Humans: Using Human Instructions to Improve Generalization in Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2021poster

Complex, multi-task problems have proven to be difficult to solve efficiently in a sparse-reward reinforcement learning setting. In order to be sample efficient, multi-task learning requires reuse and sharing of low-level policies. To facilitate the automatic decomposition of hierarchical tasks, we…