Selected Projects & Publications

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Boosting People’s Empathic Communication Skills with LLM Role Playing Games

Aakriti Kumar, Nalin Poungpeth, Diyi Yang, Erina Farrell, Bruce Lambert, Matthew Groh

🎮 Try Lending an Ear to test your empathic communication skills

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When Large Language Models are Reliable for Judging Empathic Communication

Aakriti Kumar, Nalin Poungpeth, Diyi Yang, Erina Farrell, Bruce Lambert, Matthew Groh

Nature Machine Intelligence (accepted)

📊 Replication code + data

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Characterizing Photorealism and Artifacts in Diffusion Model-Generated Images

Narges Kamali, Kento Nakamura, Aakriti Kumar, Andreas Chatzimparmpas, Jessica Hullman, Matthew Groh

CHI 2025

❓Try detecting deepfakes yourself!

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What Large Language Models Know and What People Think They Know

Mark Steyvers, Heliodoro Tejeda, Aakriti Kumar, Sheer Karny, Xinyue Hu, Lukas Mayer, Padhraic Smyth

Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024

🤖 Paper

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Differentiating Mental Models of Self and Others: A Hierarchical Framework for Knowledge Assessment

Aakriti Kumar, Padhraic Smyth, Mark Steyvers

Psychological Review, 2023

🧠 Paper

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Three Challenges for AI-Assisted Decision-Making

Mark Steyvers, Aakriti Kumar

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023

💡 Paper

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Learning and Retention in Large-scale Cognitive Training Data Sets

Aakriti Kumar, Aaron Benjamin, Andrew Heathcote, Mark Steyvers

NPJ Science of Learning, 2022

📚 Paper