Publications

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NLP Research

Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations. Sunny Yu, Ahmad Jabbar, Robert Hawkins, Dan Jurafsky, Myra Cheng. Pre-print, under review (2025).

ELEPHANT: Measuring And Understanding Social Sycophancy in LLMs. Myra Cheng*, Sunny Yu*, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim, Dan Jurafsky. Pre-print, under review (2025).

HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs.. Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Dan Jurafsky.

Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a TreenReveals Possibilities and Assumptions in Large Language Models.. Nava Haghighi, Sunny Yu, James Landay, Daniela Rosner. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2025).

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, Dan Jurafsky

Cognitive Science Research

Generics Revisited: Analyzing Generalizations in Children’s Books and Caregivers’ Speech. Sunny Yu, Alvin Tan, Siying Zhang, Phllip Miao, Riley Carlson, Tobias Gerstenberg, David Rose. The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2025).

DevBench: A multimodal developmental benchmark for language learning. Alvin Tan, Sunny Yu, Bria Long, Wanjing Anya Ma, Tonya Murray, Rebecca D. Silverman, Jason D. Yeatman, Michael C. Frank. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Oral) (2025).