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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) 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

Assessing personality traits using large language models (LLMs) has emerged as an interesting and challenging area of research. While previous methods employ explicit questionnaires, often derived from the Big Five model of personality, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Joseph Suh , Suhong Moon , Minwoo Kang , David M. Chan

This study analyzes changes in the attention mechanisms of large language models (LLMs) when used to understand natural conversations between humans (human-human). We analyze three use cases of LLMs: interactions over web content, code, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Toshish Jawale , Chaitanya Animesh , Sekhar Vallath , Kartik Talamadupula , Larry Heck

This paper introduces an innovative task focused on editing the personality traits of Large Language Models (LLMs). This task seeks to adjust the models' responses to opinion-related questions on specified topics since an individual's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shengyu Mao , Xiaohan Wang , Mengru Wang , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Ningyu Zhang

Motivated by the remarkable progress of large language models (LLMs) in objective tasks like mathematics and coding, there is growing interest in their potential to simulate human behavior--a capability with profound implications for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuxuan Lei , Tianfu Wang , Jianxun Lian , Zhengyu Hu , Defu Lian , Xing Xie

We present PersonaConvBench, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating personalized reasoning and generation in multi-turn conversations with large language models (LLMs). Unlike existing work that focuses on either personalization or…

Large language models has catalyzed the development of personalized dialogue systems, numerous role-playing conversational agents have emerged. While previous research predominantly focused on enhancing the model's capability to follow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yuxuan Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new avenues to simulate online communities and social media. Potential applications range from testing the design of content recommendation algorithms to estimating the effects of content policies and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Azza Bouleimen , Giordano De Marzo , Taehee Kim , Nicol`o Pagan , Hannah Metzler , Silvia Giordano , Anikó Hannák , David Garcia

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate superior performance in generative scenarios and have attracted widespread attention. Among them, stylized dialogue generation is essential in the context of LLMs for building intelligent and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jinpeng Li , Zekai Zhang , Quan Tu , Xin Cheng , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Personalized large language models (LLMs) have attracted great attention in many applications, such as emotional support and role-playing. However, existing works primarily focus on modeling explicit character profiles, while ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yuhao Dan , Jie Zhou , Qin Chen , Junfeng Tian , Liang He

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate biased responses where the opinions of certain groups and populations are underrepresented. Here, we present a novel approach to achieve controllable generation of specific viewpoints using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Junyi Li , Ninareh Mehrabi , Charith Peris , Palash Goyal , Kai-Wei Chang , Aram Galstyan , Richard Zemel , Rahul Gupta

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are integrated with human daily applications rapidly, many societal and ethical concerns are raised regarding the behavior of LLMs. One of the ways to comprehend LLMs' behavior is to analyze their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Xiaoyang Song , Yuta Adachi , Jessie Feng , Mouwei Lin , Linhao Yu , Frank Li , Akshat Gupta , Gopala Anumanchipalli , Simerjot Kaur

Social media user profiling through content analysis is crucial for tasks like misinformation detection, engagement prediction, hate speech monitoring, and user behavior modeling. However, existing profiling techniques, including tweet…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Vahid Rahimzadeh , Ali Hamzehpour , Azadeh Shakery , Masoud Asadpour

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into lifelong AI assistants, LLM personalization has become a critical frontier. However, progress is currently bottlenecked by the absence of a gold-standard evaluation benchmark. Existing benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Xiao , Xiang Yu , Chengbing Wang , Wuqiang Zheng , Xinyu Lin , Kaining Liu , Hongxun Ding , Yang Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in roles requiring nuanced psychological understanding, such as emotional support agents, counselors, and decision-making assistants. However, their ability to interpret human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jianfeng Zhu , Julina Maharjan , Xinyu Li , Karin G. Coifman , Ruoming Jin

This study proposes a novel methodology for generating personalized fake news debunking messages by prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) with persona-based inputs aligned to the Big Five personality traits: Extraversion, Agreeableness,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Pietro Dell'Oglio , Alessandro Bondielli , Francesco Marcelloni , Lucia C. Passaro

This draft paper presents a workflow for creating User Personas with Large Language Models, using the results of a Thematic Analysis of qualitative interviews. The proposed workflow uses improved prompting and a larger pool of Themes,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Stefano De Paoli

Personalization is essential for Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents to adapt to users' preferences and improve response quality and task performance. However, most existing approaches infer personas from chat histories, which capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Bufang Yang , Lilin Xu , Yixuan Li , Kaiwei Liu , Xiaofan Jiang , Zhenyu Yan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating coherent text but often struggle with grounding language and strategic dialogue. To address this gap, we focus on journalistic interviews, a domain rich in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alexander Spangher , Michael Lu , Sriya Jeslyn Kalyan , Hyundong Justin Cho , Weiyan Shi , Jonathan May