Yukino Baba
Author directory2026
Cross-Centaur: Modeling Individual Decision-Making Across Psychological Tasks with Language Models
Hikaru Asano | Hidezo Suganuma | Ryutaro Mori | Yukino Baba
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hikaru Asano | Hidezo Suganuma | Ryutaro Mori | Yukino Baba
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as computational models of human behavior. Recent models such as Centaur have advanced this goal by fine-tuning LLMs on trial-by-trial decisions from psychological experiments. However, existing large-scale behavioral datasets do not link the same participants across different tasks, so these models learn population-level regularities but are not trained to model individual-level regularities across tasks. We introduce Cross-Psych-101, a dataset of 591 participants and 261,551 valid decisions across 12 Bandit, Tradeoff, Structure, and Social tasks. We train Cross-Centaur to predict a participant’s target-task actions from a target-task description and the source-task description paired with the same participant’s source-task behavior. Cross-Centaur outperforms off-the-shelf LLMs and Centaur on held-out participants, both within and across tasks. Probing analyses suggest that its hidden states encode participant-level behavioral tendencies that transfer across tasks. These results highlight the potential of cross-task individual-level data for predicting human decision-making with language models. Cross-Pysch-101 is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/HikaruAsano/cross-psych-101.
Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation with Constraints
Kei Moriyama | Kouta Nakayama | Yukino Baba
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
Kei Moriyama | Kouta Nakayama | Yukino Baba
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
Crowdsourced annotators and Large Language Models (LLMs) offer complementary, cost-effective ways to obtain labeled data, yet ensuring high label quality remains challenging.We observe that task features influence the accuracy of humans and LLMs, while real-world constraints, such as per-annotator assignment limits, further complicate allocation.Prior work typically addresses either task features or constraints, but not both.We present an integrated framework that (i) estimates per-task accuracy from task features using a learning from crowds model and (ii) incorporates these estimations into a linear programming formulation that assigns tasks under practical constraints. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves accuracy comparable to that of baseline methods while satisfying given constraints.
2021
Co-Teaching Student-Model through Submission Results of Shared Task
Kouta Nakayama | Shuhei Kurita | Akio Kobayashi | Yukino Baba | Satoshi Sekine
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
Kouta Nakayama | Shuhei Kurita | Akio Kobayashi | Yukino Baba | Satoshi Sekine
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
Shared tasks have a long history and have become the mainstream of NLP research. Most of the shared tasks require participants to submit only system outputs and descriptions. It is uncommon for the shared task to request submission of the system itself because of the license issues and implementation differences. Therefore, many systems are abandoned without being used in real applications or contributing to better systems. In this research, we propose a scheme to utilize all those systems which participated in the shared tasks. We use all participated system outputs as task teachers in this scheme and develop a new model as a student aiming to learn the characteristics of each system. We call this scheme “Co-Teaching.” This scheme creates a unified system that performs better than the task’s single best system. It only requires the system outputs, and slightly extra effort is needed for the participants and organizers. We apply this scheme to the “SHINRA2019-JP” shared task, which has nine participants with various output accuracies, confirming that the unified system outperforms the best system. Moreover, the code used in our experiments has been released.