Chatsparent: An Interactive System for Detecting and Mitigating Cognitive Fatigue in LLMs

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Autori principali: Marwah, Riju, Pallagani, Vishal, Garimella, Ritvik, Sheth, Amit
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Marwah, Riju
Pallagani, Vishal
Garimella, Ritvik
Sheth, Amit
author_facet Marwah, Riju
Pallagani, Vishal
Garimella, Ritvik
Sheth, Amit
contents LLMs are increasingly being deployed as chatbots, but today's interfaces offer little to no friction: users interact through seamless conversations that conceal when the model is drifting, hallucinating or failing. This lack of transparency fosters blind trust, even as models produce unstable or repetitive outputs. We introduce an interactive demo that surfaces and mitigates cognitive fatigue, a failure mode where LLMs gradually lose coherence during auto-regressive generation. Our system, Chatsparent, instruments real-time, token-level signals of fatigue, including attention-to-prompt decay, embedding drift, and entropy collapse, and visualizes them as a unified fatigue index. When fatigue thresholds are crossed, the interface allows users to activate lightweight interventions such as attention resets, entropy-regularized decoding, and self-reflection checkpoints. The demo streams live text and fatigue signals, allowing users to observe when fatigue arises, how it affects output quality, and how interventions restore stability. By turning passive chatbot interaction into an interactive diagnostic experience, our system empowers users to better understand LLM behavior while improving reliability at inference time.
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spellingShingle Chatsparent: An Interactive System for Detecting and Mitigating Cognitive Fatigue in LLMs
Marwah, Riju
Pallagani, Vishal
Garimella, Ritvik
Sheth, Amit
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
LLMs are increasingly being deployed as chatbots, but today's interfaces offer little to no friction: users interact through seamless conversations that conceal when the model is drifting, hallucinating or failing. This lack of transparency fosters blind trust, even as models produce unstable or repetitive outputs. We introduce an interactive demo that surfaces and mitigates cognitive fatigue, a failure mode where LLMs gradually lose coherence during auto-regressive generation. Our system, Chatsparent, instruments real-time, token-level signals of fatigue, including attention-to-prompt decay, embedding drift, and entropy collapse, and visualizes them as a unified fatigue index. When fatigue thresholds are crossed, the interface allows users to activate lightweight interventions such as attention resets, entropy-regularized decoding, and self-reflection checkpoints. The demo streams live text and fatigue signals, allowing users to observe when fatigue arises, how it affects output quality, and how interventions restore stability. By turning passive chatbot interaction into an interactive diagnostic experience, our system empowers users to better understand LLM behavior while improving reliability at inference time.
title Chatsparent: An Interactive System for Detecting and Mitigating Cognitive Fatigue in LLMs
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11526