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Demographic prompting in LLMs shows optimal alignment with 1-3 attributes

A new study published on arXiv investigates the impact of demographic attributes in prompts on the agreement between large language model (LLM) predictions and human annotations. The research found that using one to three high-signal demographic attributes in prompts maximizes alignment, while using a full set of attributes degrades this agreement. The study also revealed that the learnability and directional coherence of an attribute's annotation signal are crucial for improving LLM alignment, and that specialized neural activation correlates with alignment gains only when annotation signals are coherent. AI

IMPACT Optimal demographic prompting strategies could improve LLM alignment and reduce annotation costs.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing research findings on LLM prompting. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Demographic prompting in LLMs shows optimal alignment with 1-3 attributes

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mahammed Kamruzzaman, Shrabon Kumar Das, Gene Louis Kim ·

    Demographic Prompting at Scale: When More Attributes Hurt LLM--Human Agreement

    arXiv:2607.10590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate how annotator demographic attributes, supplied as prompt cues, shape the alignment between large language model (LLM) predictions and human annotations across five tasks. Using five open-source LLMs, we systematically…