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Large Language Models (LLMs) reveal inherent and distinctive personas through dialogue. However, most existing persona discovery approaches rely on surface-level lexical or stylistic cues, treating dialogue as a flat sequence of tokens and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jisoo Yang , Jongwon Ryu , Minuk Ma , Trung X. Pham , Junyeong Kim

Personality recognition is useful for enhancing robots' ability to tailor user-adaptive responses, thus fostering rich human-robot interactions. One of the challenges in this task is a limited number of speakers in existing dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yahui Fu , Haiyue Song , Tianyu Zhao , Tatsuya Kawahara

Persona-assigned large language models (LLMs) are used in domains such as education, healthcare, and sociodemographic simulation. Yet, they are typically evaluated only in short, single-round settings that do not reflect real-world usage.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo , Michael A. Hedderich , Ali Modarressi , Hinrich Schuetze , Benjamin Roth

While both agent interaction and personalisation are vibrant topics in research on large language models (LLMs), there has been limited focus on the effect of language interaction on the behaviour of persona-conditioned LLM agents. Such an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ivar Frisch , Mario Giulianelli

Large Language Models (LLMs) have quickly become an invaluable assistant for a variety of tasks. However, their effectiveness is constrained by their ability to tailor responses to human preferences and behaviors via personalization. Prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lucie Charlotte Magister , Katherine Metcalf , Yizhe Zhang , Maartje ter Hoeve

With the availability of massive general-domain dialogue data, pre-trained dialogue generation appears to be super appealing to transfer knowledge from the general domain to downstream applications. In most existing work, such transferable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xueliang Zhao , Lemao Liu , Tingchen Fu , Shuming Shi , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Endowing chatbots with a consistent personality plays a vital role for agents to deliver human-like interactions. However, existing personalized approaches commonly generate responses in light of static predefined personas depicted with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yifan Liu , Wei Wei , Jiayi Liu , Xianling Mao , Rui Fang , Dangyang Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced conversational AI assistants. However, systematically evaluating how well these assistants apply personalization--adapting to individual user preferences while completing tasks--remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zheng Zhao , Clara Vania , Subhradeep Kayal , Naila Khan , Shay B. Cohen , Emine Yilmaz

Personalized alignment is essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric dialogue. While recent prompt-based and offline optimization methods offer preliminary solutions, they fall short in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Weixiang Zhao , Xingyu Sui , Yulin Hu , Jiahe Guo , Haixiao Liu , Biye Li , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Current dialogue summarization systems usually encode the text with a number of general semantic features (e.g., keywords and topics) to gain more powerful dialogue modeling capabilities. However, these features are obtained via open-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Libo Qin , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Large-language-model (LLM) agents excel at reactive dialogue but struggle with proactive, goal-driven interactions due to myopic decoding and costly planning. We introduce DialogXpert, which leverages a frozen LLM to propose a small,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Tazeek Bin Abdur Rakib , Ambuj Mehrish , Lay-Ki Soon , Wern Han Lim , Soujanya Poria

In this work, we tackle the challenge of embedding realistic human personality traits into LLMs. Previous approaches have primarily focused on prompt-based methods that describe the behavior associated with the desired personality traits,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wenkai Li , Jiarui Liu , Andy Liu , Xuhui Zhou , Mona Diab , Maarten Sap

Recent advances in duplex speech models have enabled natural, low-latency speech-to-speech interactions. However, existing models are restricted to a fixed role and voice, limiting their ability to support structured, role-driven real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Rajarshi Roy , Jonathan Raiman , Sang-gil Lee , Teodor-Dumitru Ene , Robert Kirby , Sungwon Kim , Jaehyeon Kim , Bryan Catanzaro

Current conversational AI systems often provide generic, one-size-fits-all interactions that overlook individual user characteristics and lack adaptive dialogue management. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{HumAIne-chatbot}, an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Georgios Makridis , George Fragiadakis , Jorge Oliveira , Tomaz Saraiva , Philip Mavrepis , Georgios Fatouros , Dimosthenis Kyriazis

This paper presents a novel application of large language models (LLMs) to enhance user comprehension of privacy policies through an interactive dialogue agent. We demonstrate that LLMs significantly outperform traditional models in tasks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Bolun Sun , Yifan Zhou , Haiyun Jiang

Multi-session persona-based dialogue generation presents challenges in maintaining long-term consistency and generating diverse, personalized responses. While large language models (LLMs) excel in single-session dialogues, they struggle to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yi-Pei Chen , Noriki Nishida , Hideki Nakayama , Yuji Matsumoto

This paper addresses user-specific dialogs. In contrast to previous research on personalized dialogue focused on achieving virtual user dialogue as defined by persona descriptions, user-specific dialogue aims to reproduce real-user dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Atsushi Otsuka , Kazuya Matsuo , Ryo Ishii , Narichika Nomoto , Hiroaki Sugiyama

Personalized dialogue systems have advanced considerably with the integration of user-specific personas into large language models (LLMs). However, while LLMs can effectively generate personalized responses, the influence of persona…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yonghyun Jun , Hwanhee Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used as conversational agents, exploiting their capabilities in various sectors such as education, law, medicine, and more. However, LLMs are often subjected to context-shifting behaviour, resulting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Pranav Bhandari , Nicolas Fay , Michael Wise , Amitava Datta , Stephanie Meek , Usman Naseem , Mehwish Nasim

The rise of big data has amplified the need for efficient, user-friendly automated machine learning (AutoML) tools. However, the intricacy of understanding domain-specific data and defining prediction tasks necessitates human intervention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Md Mahadi Hassan , Alex Knipper , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu