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Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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A Systematic Comparison between Extractive Self-Explanations and Human Rationales in Text Classification cites this paper.

A Systematic Comparison between Extractive Self-Explanations and Human Rationales in Text Classification Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Fostering Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models: The Role of Explanations, Sources, and Inconsistencies cites this paper.

Fostering Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models: The Role of Explanations, Sources, and Inconsistencies Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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PEDANTIC: A Dataset for the Automatic Examination of Definiteness in Patent Claims cites this paper.

PEDANTIC: A Dataset for the Automatic Examination of Definiteness in Patent Claims Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Energy-Based Transformers are Scalable Learners and Thinkers cites this paper.

Energy-Based Transformers are Scalable Learners and Thinkers Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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SynthEHR-Eviction: Enhancing Eviction SDoH Detection with LLM-Augmented Synthetic EHR Data cites this paper.

SynthEHR-Eviction: Enhancing Eviction SDoH Detection with LLM-Augmented Synthetic EHR Data Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges cites this paper.

Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Explainable Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (KG-RAG) with KG-SMILE cites this paper.

Explainable Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (KG-RAG) with KG-SMILE Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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A Comprehensive Survey on Trustworthiness in Reasoning with Large Language Models cites this paper.

A Comprehensive Survey on Trustworthiness in Reasoning with Large Language Models Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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The Shape of Reasoning: Topological Analysis of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models cites this paper.

The Shape of Reasoning: Topological Analysis of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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The Shape of Reasoning: Topological Analysis of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models cites this paper.

The Shape of Reasoning: Topological Analysis of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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When AI Persuades: Adversarial Explanation Attacks on Human Trust in AI-Assisted Decision Making cites this paper.

When AI Persuades: Adversarial Explanation Attacks on Human Trust in AI-Assisted Decision Making Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation cites this paper.

Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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TRUE: A Trustworthy Unified Explanation Framework for Large Language Model Reasoning cites this paper.

TRUE: A Trustworthy Unified Explanation Framework for Large Language Model Reasoning Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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When to Call an Apple Red: Humans Follow Introspective Rules, VLMs Don't cites this paper.

When to Call an Apple Red: Humans Follow Introspective Rules, VLMs Don't Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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AtManRL: Towards Faithful Reasoning via Differentiable Attention Saliency cites this paper.

AtManRL: Towards Faithful Reasoning via Differentiable Attention Saliency Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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PageGuide: Browser extension to assist users in navigating a webpage and locating information cites this paper.

PageGuide: Browser extension to assist users in navigating a webpage and locating information Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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PageGuide: Browser extension to assist users in navigating a webpage and locating information cites this paper.

PageGuide: Browser extension to assist users in navigating a webpage and locating information Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Concept-Based Abductive and Contrastive Explanations for Behaviors of Vision Models cites this paper.

Concept-Based Abductive and Contrastive Explanations for Behaviors of Vision Models Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Interpretability Can Be Actionable cites this paper.

Interpretability Can Be Actionable Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Investigating the Interplay between Contextual and Parametric Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness under Optimization cites this paper.

Investigating the Interplay between Contextual and Parametric Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness under Optimization Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Faithfulness Metrics Don't Measure Faithfulness: A Meta-Evaluation with Ground Truth cites this paper.

Faithfulness Metrics Don't Measure Faithfulness: A Meta-Evaluation with Ground Truth Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Detecting Unfaithful Chain-of-Thought via Circuit-Guided Internal-External Discrepancy cites this paper.

Detecting Unfaithful Chain-of-Thought via Circuit-Guided Internal-External Discrepancy Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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A Finetuned SpeechLLM for Joint Multi-Granular L2 Assessment and Natural-Language Rationales cites this paper.

A Finetuned SpeechLLM for Joint Multi-Granular L2 Assessment and Natural-Language Rationales Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Forecasting Future Behavior as a Learning Task cites this paper.

Forecasting Future Behavior as a Learning Task Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Answer Engineering: Local Trajectory Editing for Protocol-Constrained Decision Making in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Answer Engineering: Local Trajectory Editing for Protocol-Constrained Decision Making in Large Language Models Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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BetXplain: An Explanation-Annotated Dataset for Detecting Manipulative Betting Advertisements on Social Media cites this paper.

BetXplain: An Explanation-Annotated Dataset for Detecting Manipulative Betting Advertisements on Social Media Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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What LLMs explain is not what they believe: Evaluating explanation sufficiency under models' own input beliefs cites this paper.

What LLMs explain is not what they believe: Evaluating explanation sufficiency under models' own input beliefs Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Spatial Reasoning via Modality Switching Between Language and Symbolic Representation cites this paper.

Spatial Reasoning via Modality Switching Between Language and Symbolic Representation Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Spatial Reasoning via Modality Switching Between Language and Symbolic Representation Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Scientific Explanations in Health Sciences: Causality, Trust, and Epistemic Adequacy cites this paper.

Scientific Explanations in Health Sciences: Causality, Trust, and Epistemic Adequacy Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Governing Generative AI Across Financial Institutions: A Framework for Generative AI Risk Control cites this paper.

Governing Generative AI Across Financial Institutions: A Framework for Generative AI Risk Control Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Exposure is not manifestation: measurement target and output resolution jointly determine which behavioural-faithfulness evaluator wins cites this paper.

Exposure is not manifestation: measurement target and output resolution jointly determine which behavioural-faithfulness evaluator wins Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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From Plausible to Actionable: A Position on LLM Self-Explanations cites this paper.

From Plausible to Actionable: A Position on LLM Self-Explanations Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Mechanistic Attention Guidance for Agent Memory Refinement cites this paper.

Mechanistic Attention Guidance for Agent Memory Refinement Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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Training Large Language Models for Self-Explanation Faithfulness cites this paper.

Training Large Language Models for Self-Explanation Faithfulness Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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To Facilitate or not to Facilitate: Human and LLM Facilitator Tendencies in Online Discussions cites this paper.

To Facilitate or not to Facilitate: Human and LLM Facilitator Tendencies in Online Discussions Faithfulness vs. Plausibility: On the (Un)Reliability of Explanations from Large Language Models

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