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Personalized dialogue generation aims to leverage persona profiles and dialogue history to generate persona-relevant and consistent responses. Mainstream models typically rely on token-level language model training with persona dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Guanrong Li , Xinyu Liu , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

Persona agents, which are LLM agents conditioned to act according to an assigned persona, enable contextually rich and user aligned interactions across domains like education and healthcare. However, evaluating how faithfully these agents…

As language models achieve increasingly human-like capabilities in conversational text generation, a critical question emerges: to what extent can these systems simulate the characteristics of specific individuals? To evaluate this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Quan Shi , Carlos E. Jimenez , Stephen Dong , Brian Seo , Caden Yao , Adam Kelch , Karthik Narasimhan

Evaluating personality traits in Large Language Models (LLMs) is key to model interpretation, comparison, and responsible deployment. However, existing questionnaire-based evaluation methods exhibit limited stability and offer little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Xiaoxu Ma , Xiangbo Zhang , Zhenyu Weng

The field of large language models (LLMs) has grown rapidly in recent years, driven by the desire for better efficiency, interpretability, and safe use. Building on the novel approach of "activation engineering," this study explores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Rumi Allbert , James K. Wiles , Vlad Grankovsky

Ensuring persona fidelity in large language models (LLMs) is essential for maintaining coherent and engaging human-AI interactions. However, LLMs often exhibit Out-of-Character (OOC) behavior, where generated responses deviate from an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jisu Shin , Juhyun Oh , Eunsu Kim , Hoyun Song , Alice Oh

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can convincingly simulate personas in explicit self-reports, they often deviate in implicit behavioral decisions, revealing a substantial Knowledge-Decision Gap ($G_{\text{KD}}$). Existing benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yutong Yang , Chenxi Miao , Weikang Li , Yunfang Wu

In the realm of mimicking human deliberation, large language models (LLMs) show promising performance, thereby amplifying the importance of this research area. Deliberation is influenced by both logic and personality. However, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianzhi Liu , Hexiang Gu , Tianyu Zheng , Liuyu Xiang , Huijia Wu , Jie Fu , Zhaofeng He

Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant traction across a wide range of fields in recent years. There is also a growing expectation for them to display human-like personalities during interactions. To meet this expectation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Adithya Chittem , Aishna Shrivastava , Sai Tarun Pendela , Jagat Sesh Challa , Dhruv Kumar

This paper introduces PersonaAI, a cutting-edge application that leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and the LLAMA model to create highly personalized digital avatars capable of accurately mimicking individual personalities.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Elvis Kimara , Kunle S. Oguntoye , Jian Sun

Autonomous network management in Open Radio Access Networks requires intelligent decision making across conflicting objectives, yet existing LLM based multi agent systems employ homogeneous strategies and lack systematic predeployment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zeinab Nezami , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi , Maryam Hafeez , Louis Powell , Vara Prasad Talari , Mallik Tatipamula

We present Persona-L, a novel approach for creating personas using Large Language Models (LLMs) and an ability-based framework, specifically designed to improve the representation of users with complex needs. Traditional methods of persona…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lipeipei Sun , Tianzi Qin , Anran Hu , Jiale Zhang , Shuojia Lin , Jianyan Chen , Mona Ali , Mirjana Prpa

Personality detection automatically identifies an individual's personality from various data sources, such as social media texts. However, as the parameter scale of language models continues to grow, the computational cost becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lingzhi Shen , Yunfei Long , Xiaohao Cai , Guanming Chen , Imran Razzak , Shoaib Jameel

We present a novel approach for enhancing diversity and control in data annotation tasks by personalizing large language models (LLMs). We investigate the impact of injecting diverse persona descriptions into LLM prompts across two studies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Leon Fröhling , Gianluca Demartini , Dennis Assenmacher

The inability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to modulate their personality expression in response to evolving dialogue dynamics hinders their performance in complex, interactive contexts. We propose a model-agnostic framework for dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Leon Pielage , Ole Hätscher , Mitja Back , Bernhard Marschall , Benjamin Risse

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled human-like social simulations at unprecedented scale and fidelity, offering new opportunities for computational social science. A key challenge, however, is the construction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhengyu Hu , Jianxun Lian , Zheyuan Xiao , Max Xiong , Yuxuan Lei , Tianfu Wang , Kaize Ding , Ziang Xiao , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Xing Xie

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

Large Language Model (LLM) personas with explicit specifications of attributes, background, and behavioural tendencies are increasingly used to simulate human conversations for tasks such as user modeling, social reasoning, and behavioural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Eliseo Bao , Anxo Perez , Xi Wang , Javier Parapar

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serve as daily assistants for millions. However, their ability to generate responses aligned with individual preferences remains limited. Prior approaches enable only static, single-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chang Nie , Chaoyou Fu , Yifan Zhang , Haihua Yang , Caifeng Shan

The use of large language models (LLMs) to simulate human behavior has gained significant attention, particularly through personas that approximate individual characteristics. Persona-based simulations hold promise for transforming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ang Li , Haozhe Chen , Hongseok Namkoong , Tianyi Peng