Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?
  Addison J. Wu*, Ryan Liu*, Kerem Oktar*, Theodore R. Sumers, Thomas L. Griffiths
  NeurIPS 2025 [Project Page] [arXiv]
  Oral at PragLM @ COLM 2025
• Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse
  Ryan Liu*, Jiayi Geng*, Addison J. Wu, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths
  ICML 2025 [Project Page] [arXiv]
  Press coverage: The Information [text]
• Large Language Models Develop Novel Social Biases Through Adaptive Exploration
  Addison J. Wu*, Ryan Liu*, Xuechunzi Bai, Thomas L. Griffiths
  MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025 [arXiv]
• Toward a Neural Network-Based Approach for Improved Atmospheric Infrasound Source Localization
  Addison J. Wu, Arnav Joshi, Jean-Pierre Hickey
  IEEE Access, 2025 [Paper]

Preprints

• Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Forensic Science and Medicine: A Comprehensive Dataset and Evaluation Framework
  Ashmaan Sohail*, Om M. Patel*, Jihwan Choi, Jack C. S. Venditti, Addison J. Wu
  Revise & Resubmit at Scientific Reports, 2025 [medRxiv]