publications

published works

Mannekote, A., Davies, A., Kang, J., & Boyer, K. E. (2025). Can LLMs Reliably Simulate Human Learner Actions? A Simulation Authoring Framework for Open-Ended Learning Environments. Accepted for publication in AAAI-25.
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Hemmat, A., Davies, A., Lamb, T., Yuan, J., Torr, P., Khakzar, A., & Pinto, F. (2024). Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models. In Thirty-eighth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
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Canby, M.*, Davies, A.*, Rastogi, C., & Hockenmaier, J. (2024). Measuring the Reliability of Causal Probing Methods: Tradeoffs, Limitations, and the Plight of Nullifying Interventions. In NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Interpretable AI (Oral).
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Davies, A., Jiang, J., & Zhai, C. (2024). Competence-Based Analysis of Language Models. In NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Interpretable AI.
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Mannekote, A., Davies, A., Pinto, J. D., Zhang, S., Olds, D., Schroeder, N. L., … & Zhai, C. (2024). Large Language Models for Whole-Learner Support: Opportunities and Challenges. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7.
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Yuan, J.*, Pinto, F.*, Davies, A.*, & Torr, P. (2024). Not Just Pretty Pictures: Toward Interventional Data Augmentation Using Text-to-Image Generators. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning.
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Zhang, Y.*, Davies, A.*, & Zhai, C. (2024). Understanding the social construction of juvenile delinquency: insights from semantic analysis of big-data historical newspaper collections. Journal of Computational Social Science, 1-43.
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Satheesan, S. P., Bhavya, Davies, A., Craig, A. B., Zhang, Y., & Zhai, C. (2022). Toward a Big Data Analysis System for Historical Newspaper Collections Research. Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. doi:10.1145/3539781.3539795
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Davies, A. (2021). Definitional Templating: A Novel Approach to Modeling the Compositional Semantics of Noun Compounds (Publication No. UUCS 21-013).
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preprints

Davies, A., Nguyen, E., Simeone, M., Johnston, E., & Gubri, M. (2024). Social Science Is Necessary for Operationalizing Socially Responsible Foundation Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.16355.
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Lamb, T., Davies, A., Paren, A., Torr, P., Pinto, F (2024). Focus On This, Not That! Steering LLMs With Adaptive Feature Specification. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22944.
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Davies, A., & Khakzar, A. (2024). The Cognitive Revolution in Interpretability: From Explaining Behavior to Interpreting Representations and Algorithms. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05859.
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