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Maarten Sap

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

40 papers at tracked venues · 26 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×10EMNLP ×7CHI ×5NAACL ×5NeurIPS ×4ICLR ×3EACL ×2ICML ×2AAAI ×1CVPR ×1

Frequent coauthors

Xuhui Zhou
×13
Joel Mire
×6
Akhila Yerukola
×5
Nouha Dziri
×5
Yejin Choi
×5
Faeze Brahman
×4
Liwei Jiang
×4
Graham Neubig
×4
Jena D. Hwang
×4
Hao Zhu
×4
Mona T. Diab
×3
Mingqian Zheng
×3

Papers

  1. Black LLMirror: User (Self) Perceptions in Black American English Interactions with LLMs
    CHI 2026 ·
    Mikayla Campbell
    ,
    Joel Mire
    ,
    Mark Diaz
    , Maarten Sap
  2. Common Sense or Ableism? Rethinking Commonsense Reasoning Through the Lens of Disability
    EACL 2026 ·
    Karina Halevy
    ,
    Kimi Wenzel
    ,
    Seyun Kim
    ,
    Kyle Dean Bauer
    ,
    Bruno Neira
    ,
    Mona T. Diab
    , Maarten Sap
  3. Imperfectly Cooperative Human-AI Interactions: Comparing the Impacts of Human and AI Attributes in Simulated and User Studies
    ACL 2026 ·
    Myke C. Cohen
    ,
    Mingqian Zheng
    ,
    Neel Bhandari
    ,
    Hsien-Te Kao
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Daniel Nguyen
    ,
    Laura Cassani
    , Maarten Sap,
    Svitlana Volkova
  4. Out of Style: RAG's Fragility to Linguistic Variation
    EACL 2026 ·
    Tianyu Cao
    ,
    Neel Bhandari
    ,
    Akhila Yerukola
    ,
    Akari Asai
    , Maarten Sap
  5. PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy
    CHI 2026 ·
    Yuxuan Li
    ,
    Wesley Hanwen Deng
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Kevin Klyman
    ,
    Chun Yu
    ,
    Yuanchun Shi
    ,
    Nicholas Vincent
    ,
    Amy X. Zhang
    , Maarten Sap,
    Sauvik Das
    ,
    Hirokazu Shirado
  6. Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Reception
    ACL 2026 ·
    Joel Mire
    ,
    Maria Antoniak
    ,
    Steven R. Wilson
    ,
    Zexin Ma
    ,
    Achyutarama R. Ganti
    ,
    Andrew Piper
    , Maarten Sap
  7. AI-LieDar : Examine the Trade-off Between Utility and Truthfulness in LLM Agents
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Zhe Su
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Sanketh Rangreji
    ,
    Anubha Kabra
    ,
    Julia Mendelsohn
    ,
    Faeze Brahman
    , Maarten Sap
  8. Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Liwei Jiang
    ,
    Yuanjun Chai
    ,
    Margaret Li
    ,
    Mickel Liu
    ,
    Raymond Fok
    ,
    Nouha Dziri
    ,
    Yulia Tsvetkov
    , Maarten Sap,
    Yejin Choi
  9. AutoPresent: Designing Structured Visuals from Scratch
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Jiaxin Ge
    ,
    Zora Zhiruo Wang
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Yi-Hao Peng
    ,
    Sanjay Subramanian
    ,
    Qinyue Tan
    , Maarten Sap,
    Alane Suhr
    ,
    Daniel Fried
    ,
    Graham Neubig
    ,
    Trevor Darrell
  10. BIG5-CHAT: Shaping LLM Personalities Through Training on Human-Grounded Data
    ACL 2025 ·
    Wenkai Li
    ,
    Jiarui Liu
    ,
    Andy Liu
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Mona T. Diab
    , Maarten Sap
  11. Let Them Down Easy! Contextual Effects of LLM Guardrails on User Perceptions and Preferences
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mingqian Zheng
    ,
    Wenjia Hu
    ,
    Patrick Zhao
    ,
    Motahhare Eslami
    ,
    Jena D. Hwang
    ,
    Faeze Brahman
    ,
    Carolyn Rose
    , Maarten Sap
  12. Martingale Score: An Unsupervised Metric for Bayesian Rationality in LLM Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zhonghao He
    ,
    Tianyi Alex Qiu
    ,
    Hirokazu Shirado
    , Maarten Sap
  13. Mind the Gesture: Evaluating AI Sensitivity to Culturally Offensive Non-Verbal Gestures
    ACL 2025 ·
    Akhila Yerukola
    ,
    Saadia Gabriel
    ,
    Nanyun Peng
    , Maarten Sap
  14. Mitigating Bias in RAG: Controlling the Embedder
    ACL 2025 ·
    Taeyoun Kim
    ,
    Jacob Mitchell Springer
    ,
    Aditi Raghunathan
    , Maarten Sap
  15. NormAd: A Framework for Measuring the Cultural Adaptability of Large Language Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Abhinav Rao
    ,
    Akhila Yerukola
    ,
    Vishwa Shah
    ,
    Katharina Reinecke
    , Maarten Sap
  16. On the Resilience of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration with Faulty Agents
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jen-tse Huang
    ,
    Jiaxu Zhou
    ,
    Tailin Jin
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Zixi Chen
    ,
    Wenxuan Wang
    ,
    Youliang Yuan
    ,
    Michael R. Lyu
    , Maarten Sap
  17. REL-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Kaitlyn Zhou
    ,
    Jena D. Hwang
    ,
    Xiang Ren
    ,
    Nouha Dziri
    ,
    Dan Jurafsky
    , Maarten Sap
  18. Rejected Dialects: Biases Against African American Language in Reward Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Joel Mire
    ,
    Zubin Trivadi Aysola
    ,
    Daniel Chechelnitsky
    ,
    Nicholas Deas
    ,
    Chrysoula Zerva
    , Maarten Sap
  19. SOCIAL SCAFFOLDS: A Generalization Framework for Social Understanding Tasks
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Ritam Dutt
    ,
    Carolyn P. Rosé
    , Maarten Sap
  20. SOTOPIA-S4: a user-friendly system for flexible, customizable, and large-scale social simulation
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Zhe Su
    ,
    Sophie Feng
    ,
    Jiaxu Zhou
    ,
    Jen-tse Huang
    ,
    Hsien-Te Kao
    ,
    Spencer Lynch
    ,
    Svitlana Volkova
    ,
    Tongshuang Wu
    ,
    Anita Woolley
    ,
    Hao Zhu
    , Maarten Sap
  21. SafetyAnalyst: Interpretable, Transparent, and Steerable Safety Moderation for AI Behavior
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jing-Jing Li
    ,
    Valentina Pyatkin
    ,
    Max Kleiman-Weiner
    ,
    Liwei Jiang
    ,
    Nouha Dziri
    ,
    Anne Collins
    ,
    Jana Schaich Borg
    , Maarten Sap,
    Yejin Choi
    ,
    Sydney Levine
  22. SoMi-ToM: Evaluating Multi-Perspective Theory of Mind in Embodied Social Interactions
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xianzhe Fan
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Chuanyang Jin
    ,
    Kolby Nottingham
    ,
    Hao Zhu
    , Maarten Sap
  23. Stereotype or Personalization? User Identity Biases Chatbot Recommendations
    ACL 2025 ·
    Anjali Kantharuban
    ,
    Jeremiah Milbauer
    , Maarten Sap,
    Emma Strubell
    ,
    Graham Neubig
  24. Synthetic Socratic Debates: Examining Persona Effects on Moral Decision and Persuasion Dynamics
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jiarui Liu
    ,
    Yueqi Song
    ,
    Yunze Xiao
    ,
    Mingqian Zheng
    ,
    Lindia Tjuatja
    ,
    Jana Schaich Borg
    ,
    Mona T. Diab
    , Maarten Sap
  25. Unanticipated Lessons from Communities: Navigating Society-CenteredResearch in the AI Era
    CHI 2025 ·
    Ding Wang
    ,
    Remi Denton
    ,
    Anoop K. Sinha
    ,
    Shruti Sheth
    ,
    Lauren Wilcox
    ,
    Maryam Mustafa
    ,
    Motahhare Eslami
    ,
    Ken Holstein
    , Maarten Sap,
    Angela D. R. Smith
    ,
    Andrea G. Parker
    ,
    Neha Kumar
    ,
    Naveena Karusala
    ,
    Tawanna R. Dillahunt
    ,
    Jared Lee Katzman
  26. User-Driven Value Alignment: Understanding Users' Perceptions and Strategies for Addressing Biased and Discriminatory Statements in AI Companions
    CHI 2025 ·
    Xianzhe Fan
    ,
    Qing Xiao
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Jiaxin Pei
    , Maarten Sap,
    Zhicong Lu
    ,
    Hong Shen
  27. Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jocelyn J. Shen
    ,
    Akhila Yerukola
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Cynthia Breazeal
    , Maarten Sap,
    Hae-Won Park
  28. Can LLMs Keep a Secret? Testing Privacy Implications of Language Models via Contextual Integrity Theory
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Niloofar Mireshghallah
    ,
    Hyunwoo Kim
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Yulia Tsvetkov
    , Maarten Sap,
    Reza Shokri
    ,
    Yejin Choi
  29. Counterspeakers' Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate
    CHI 2024 ·
    Jimin Mun
    ,
    Cathy Buerger
    ,
    Jenny T. Liang
    ,
    Joshua Garland
    , Maarten Sap
  30. HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jocelyn Shen
    ,
    Joel Mire
    ,
    Hae Park
    ,
    Cynthia Breazeal
    , Maarten Sap
  31. Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, the Pope is Catholic. Generative Evaluation of Non-Literal Intent Resolution in LLMs
    ACL 2024 ·
    Akhila Yerukola
    ,
    Saujas Vaduguru
    ,
    Daniel Fried
    , Maarten Sap
  32. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? The Misleading Success of Simulating Social Interactions With LLMs
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Zhe Su
    ,
    Tiwalayo Eisape
    ,
    Hyunwoo Kim
    , Maarten Sap
  33. Leftover Lunch: Advantage-based Offline Reinforcement Learning for Language Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Ashutosh Baheti
    ,
    Ximing Lu
    ,
    Faeze Brahman
    ,
    Ronan Le Bras
    , Maarten Sap,
    Mark O. Riedl
  34. Relying on the Unreliable: The Impact of Language Models' Reluctance to Express Uncertainty
    ACL 2024 ·
    Kaitlyn Zhou
    ,
    Jena D. Hwang
    ,
    Xiang Ren
    , Maarten Sap
  35. SOTOPIA-π: Interactive Learning of Socially Intelligent Language Agents
    ACL 2024 ·
    Ruiyi Wang
    ,
    Haofei Yu
    ,
    Wenxin Zhang
    ,
    Zhengyang Qi
    , Maarten Sap,
    Yonatan Bisk
    ,
    Graham Neubig
    ,
    Hao Zhu
  36. SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Hao Zhu
    ,
    Leena Mathur
    ,
    Ruohong Zhang
    ,
    Haofei Yu
    ,
    Zhengyang Qi
    ,
    Louis-Philippe Morency
    ,
    Yonatan Bisk
    ,
    Daniel Fried
    ,
    Graham Neubig
    , Maarten Sap
  37. The Empirical Variability of Narrative Perceptions of Social Media Texts
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Joel Mire
    ,
    Maria Antoniak
    ,
    Elliott Ash
    ,
    Andrew Piper
    , Maarten Sap
  38. Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Taylor Sorensen
    ,
    Liwei Jiang
    ,
    Jena D. Hwang
    ,
    Sydney Levine
    ,
    Valentina Pyatkin
    ,
    Peter West
    ,
    Nouha Dziri
    ,
    Ximing Lu
    ,
    Kavel Rao
    ,
    Chandra Bhagavatula
    , Maarten Sap,
    John Tasioulas
    ,
    Yejin Choi
  39. Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities
    ACL 2024 ·
    Maria Antoniak
    ,
    Joel Mire
    , Maarten Sap,
    Elliott Ash
    ,
    Andrew Piper
  40. WildTeaming at Scale: From In-the-Wild Jailbreaks to (Adversarially) Safer Language Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Liwei Jiang
    ,
    Kavel Rao
    ,
    Seungju Han
    ,
    Allyson Ettinger
    ,
    Faeze Brahman
    ,
    Sachin Kumar
    ,
    Niloofar Mireshghallah
    ,
    Ximing Lu
    , Maarten Sap,
    Yejin Choi
    ,
    Nouha Dziri