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Current works in the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to the agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the generated responses from most previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Itsugun Cho , Dongyang Wang , Ryota Takahashi , Hiroaki Saito

Effective teaching requires adapting instructional strategies to accommodate the diverse cognitive and behavioral profiles of students, a persistent challenge in education and teacher training. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Debdeep Sanyal , Agniva Maiti , Umakanta Maharana , Dhruv Kumar , Ankur Mali , C. Lee Giles , Murari Mandal

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

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human behavior in social settings such as legal mediation, negotiation, and dispute resolution. However, it remains unclear whether these simulations reproduce the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Deuksin Kwon , Kaleen Shrestha , Bin Han , Spencer Lin , James Hale , Jonathan Gratch , Maja Matarić , Gale M. Lucas

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced dialogue systems and role-playing agents through their ability to generate human-like text. While prior studies have shown that LLMs can exhibit distinct and consistent personalities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shu Yang , Shenzhe Zhu , Liang Liu , Lijie Hu , Mengdi Li , Di Wang

Although persona prompting in large language models appears to trigger different styles of generated text, it is unclear whether these translate into measurable behavioral differences, much less whether they affect decision-making in an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 John Licato , Stephen Steinle , Brayden Hollis

Recent progress in large language model (LLM) technology has significantly enhanced the interaction experience between humans and voice assistants (VAs). This project aims to explore a user's continuous interaction with LLM-based VA…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Szeyi Chan , Shihan Fu , Jiachen Li , Bingsheng Yao , Smit Desai , Mirjana Prpa , Dakuo Wang

Persona prompting can steer LLM generation towards a domain-specific tone and pattern. This behavior enables use cases in multi-agent systems where diverse interactions are crucial and human-centered tasks require high-level human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zizhao Hu , Mohammad Rostami , Jesse Thomason

Scaling and sustaining educational innovations is a common problem in the learning sciences. Professional development resources around educational innovations that are personalized to appeal to the needs and motivations of different types…

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

As a modern commodity, language has become a vast repository of socially and psychologically significant traits and concepts, reflecting the ways people encode pattern of thoughts, behaviors, and emotions into words. Text-based Automatic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sina Heydari , Majid Ramezani

Training AI models is challenging, particularly when crafting behavior instructions. Traditional methods rely on machines (supervised learning) or manual pattern discovery, which results in not interpretable models or time sink. While Large…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Soya Park , J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira , Chinmay Kulkarni

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

In this paper we define and investigate the problem of \emph{persona authentication}: learning a conversational policy to verify the consistency of persona models. We propose a learning objective and prove (under some mild assumptions) that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Fengyi Tang , Lifan Zeng , Fei Wang , Jiayu Zhou

It is becoming increasingly necessary to have monitors check for harmful behaviors during language model interactions, but text-only monitoring has not been sufficient. This is because models sometimes exhibit strategic deception and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Prasad Mahadik , Adrians Skapars

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in domains such as education, mental health and customer support, where stable and consistent personas are critical for reliability. Yet, existing studies focus on narrative or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jivnesh Sandhan , Fei Cheng , Tushar Sandhan , Yugo Murawaki

Precise attribute intensity control--generating Large Language Model (LLM) outputs with specific, user-defined attribute intensities--is crucial for AI systems adaptable to diverse user expectations. Current LLM alignment methods, however,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Rongzhi Zhang , Liqin Ye , Yuzhao Heng , Xiang Chen , Tong Yu , Lingkai Kong , Sudheer Chava , Chao Zhang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) demonstrate their potential as educational tutors. However, different tutoring strategies benefit different student personalities, and mismatches can be counterproductive to student outcomes.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Donya Rooein , Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Mariia Eremeeva , Yuan Qin , Debora Nozza , Mrinmaya Sachan , Dirk Hovy

Personality determines a wide variety of human daily and working behaviours, and is crucial for understanding human internal and external states. In recent years, a large number of automatic personality computing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rongfan Liao , Siyang Song , Hatice Gunes

The task of persona-steered text generation requires large language models (LLMs) to generate text that reflects the distribution of views that an individual fitting a persona could have. People have multifaceted personas, but prior work on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Andy Liu , Mona Diab , Daniel Fried