Sunny Yu

According to our database, Sunny Yu authored at least 16 papers between 2018 and 2026.

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2026

Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI interaction.

Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar, Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M. Collins, Dan Jurafsky, Robert D. Hawkins

CoRR, May, 2026

The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks.

Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar, Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M. Collins, Dan Jurafsky, Robert D. Hawkins

CoRR, May, 2026

Reflections and New Directions for Human-Centered Large Language Models.

Caleb Ziems, Dora Zhao, Rose E. Wang, Matthew Jörke, Ahmad Rushdi, Advit Deepak, Sunny Yu, Anshika Agarwal, Harshvardhan Agarwal, Gabriela Aranguiz-Dias, Aditri Bhagirath, Justine Breuch, Huanxing Chen, Ruishi Chen, Sarah Chen, Haocheng Fan, William Fang, Cat Gonzales Fergesen, Daniel Frees, Tian Gao, Ziqing Huang, Vishal Jain, Yucheng Jiang, Kirill P. Kalinin, Su Doga Karaca, Arpandeep Khatua, Teland La, Isabelle Levent, Miranda Li, Xinling Li, Yongce Li, Angela Liu, Minsik Oh, Nathan J. Paek, Anthony Qin, Emily Redmond, Michael J. Ryan, Aadesh Salecha, Xiaoxian Shen, Pranava Singhal, Shashanka Subrahmanya, Mei Tan, Irawadee Thawornbut, Michelle Vinocour, Xiaoyue Wang, Zheng Wang, Henry Jin Weng, Pawan Wirawarn, Shirley Wu, Sophie Wu, Yichen Xie, Patrick Ye, Sean Zhang, Yutong Zhang, Cathy Zhou, Yiling Zhao, James Landay, Diyi Yang

CoRR, May, 2026

Verbalizing LLMs' assumptions to explain and control sycophancy.

Myra Cheng, Isabel Sieh, Humishka Zope, Sunny Yu, Lujain Ibrahim, Aryaman Arora, Jared Moore, Desmond C. Ong, Dan Jurafsky, Diyi Yang

CoRR, April, 2026

Verbalizing LLMs' Assumptions About the User to Calibrate Expectations and Reduce Sycophancy.

Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Lujain Ibrahim, Diyi Yang, Dan Jurafsky

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations.

Sunny Yu, Ahmad Jabbar, Robert Hawkins, Dan Jurafsky, Myra Cheng

CoRR, October, 2025

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence.

Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, Dan Jurafsky

CoRR, October, 2025

Social Sycophancy: A Broader Understanding of LLM Sycophancy.

Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim, Dan Jurafsky

CoRR, May, 2025

Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a Tree Reveals Possibilites and Assumptions in Large Language Models.

Nava Haghighi, Sunny Yu, James A. Landay, Daniela Rosner

CoRR, April, 2025

Generics revisited: Analyzing generalizations in children's books and caregivers' speech.

Sunny Yu, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Siying Zhang, Xuhui Miao, Riley Carlson, Tobias Gerstenberg, David Rose

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a Tree Reveals Possibilities and Assumptions in Large Language Models.

Nava Haghighi, Sunny Yu, James A. Landay, Daniela K. Rosner

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs.

Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Dan Jurafsky

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

DevBench: A multimodal developmental benchmark for language learning.

Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Sunny Yu, Bria Long, Wanjing Anya Ma, Tonya Murray, Rebecca D. Silverman, Jason D. Yeatman, Michael C. Frank

CoRR, 2024

CultureBank: An Online Community-Driven Knowledge Base Towards Culturally Aware Language Technologies.

Weiyan Shi, Ryan Li, Yutong Zhang, Caleb Ziems, Sunny Yu, Raya Horesh, Rogério de Paula, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

2021

Quantifying Variability in Microscopy Image Analyses for COVID-19 Drug Discovery.

Mylene Simon, Sunny Yu, Jayapriya Nagarajan, Peter Bajcsy, Nicholas J. Schaub, Mohamed Ouladi, Sudharsan Prativadi, Nathan Hotaling

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2021

2018

Trends Analysis of Graphene Research and Development.

Lixue Zou, Li Wang, Yingqi Wu, Caroline Ma, Sunny Yu, Xiwen Liu

J. Data Inf. Sci., 2018