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Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved personalized conversational capabilities. However, existing datasets like Persona Chat, Synthetic Persona Chat, and Blended Skill Talk rely on static, predefined personas. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sayantan Pal , Souvik Das , Rohini K. Srihari

Personality, a fundamental aspect of human cognition, contains a range of traits that influence behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. This paper explores the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in reconstructing these complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yongyi Ji , Zhisheng Tang , Mayank Kejriwal

A growing body of research examines personality traits in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in human-agent collaboration. Prior work has frequently applied the Big Five inventory to assess LLM behavior analogous to human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kim Zierahn , Cristina Cachero , Anna Korhonen , Nuria Oliver

Large Language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have gained popularity in recent years with the advancement of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with use cases spanning many disciplines and daily lives as well. LLMs inherit explicit and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fatima Kazi

Model editing aims at selectively updating a small subset of a neural model's parameters with an interpretable strategy to achieve desired modifications. It can significantly reduce computational costs to adapt to large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shichen Li , Zhongqing Wang , Zheyu Zhao , Yue Zhang , Peifeng Li

Human problem-solving is enriched by a diversity of styles and personality traits, yet the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has largely prioritized uniform performance benchmarks that favour specific behavioural tendencies such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xi Wang , Mengdie Zhuang , Jiqun Liu

Psychology research has long explored aspects of human personality such as extroversion, agreeableness and emotional stability. Categorizations like the `Big Five' personality traits are commonly used to assess and diagnose personality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Graham Caron , Shashank Srivastava

Have Large Language Models (LLMs) developed a personality? The short answer is a resounding "We Don't Know!". In this paper, we show that we do not yet have the right tools to measure personality in language models. Personality is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xiaoyang Song , Akshat Gupta , Kiyan Mohebbizadeh , Shujie Hu , Anant Singh

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their adaptation in various domains as conversational agents. We wonder: can personality tests be applied to these agents to analyze their behavior, similar to humans? We…

Large language models (LLMs) have played a pivotal role in building communicative AI, yet they encounter the challenge of efficient updates. Model editing enables the manipulation of specific knowledge memories and the behavior of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xinbei Ma , Tianjie Ju , Jiyang Qiu , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao , Lifeng Liu , Yulong Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate increasingly human-like abilities across a wide variety of tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether LLMs like ChatGPT can accurately infer the psychological dispositions of social media users and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Heinrich Peters , Sandra Matz

Personality manipulation in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly applied in customer service and agentic scenarios, yet its mechanisms and trade-offs remain unclear. We present a systematic study of personality control using the Big…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Gunmay Handa , Zekun Wu , Adriano Koshiyama , Philip Treleaven

The manipulation of the personality traits of large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a key area of research. Methods like prompt-based In-Context Knowledge Editing (IKE) and gradient-based Model Editor Networks (MEND) have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Navya Jain , Zekun Wu , Cristian Munoz , Airlie Hilliard , Xin Guan , Adriano Koshiyama , Emre Kazim , Philip Treleaven

Questionnaires are a common method for detecting the personality of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, their reliability is often compromised by two main issues: hallucinations (where LLMs produce inaccurate or irrelevant responses) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Baohua Zhan , Yongyi Huang , Wenyao Cui , Huaping Zhang , Jianyun Shang

The humanlike responses of large language models (LLMs) have prompted social scientists to investigate whether LLMs can be used to simulate human participants in experiments, opinion polls and surveys. Of central interest in this line of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Nikolay B Petrov , Gregory Serapio-García , Jason Rentfrow

This study explores the idea of AI Personality or AInality suggesting that Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit patterns similar to human personalities. Assuming that LLMs share these patterns with humans, we investigate using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yang Lu , Jordan Yu , Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to gain popularity due to their human-like traits and the intimacy they offer to users, their societal impact inevitably expands. This leads to the rising necessity for comprehensive studies to fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Bojana Bodroza , Bojana M. Dinic , Ljubisa Bojic

This paper explores the advancements in making large language models (LLMs) more human-like. We focus on techniques that enhance natural language understanding, conversational coherence, and emotional intelligence in AI systems. The study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ethem Yağız Çalık , Talha Rüzgar Akkuş

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, yet face challenges in specialized tasks such as simulating opinions on environmental policies. This paper introduces a novel fine-tuning approach that integrates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Haocheng Lin

Recent Large Language Model (LLM) based AI can exhibit recognizable and measurable personality traits during conversations to improve user experience. However, as human understandings of their personality traits can be affected by their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jingshu Li , Tianqi Song , Nattapat Boonprakong , Zicheng Zhu , Yitian Yang , Yi-Chieh Lee