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What does it mean to model a person, not merely to predict isolated responses, preferences, or behaviors, but to simulate how an individual interprets events, forms opinions, makes judgments, and acts consistently across contexts? This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mao Li , Frederick G. Conrad

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human decision-making, but their intrinsic biases often diverge from real human behavior--limiting their ability to reflect population-level diversity. We address this challenge…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ayato Kitadai , Yusuke Fukasawa , Nariaki Nishino

Modeling human personality is important for several AI challenges, from the engineering of artificial psychotherapists to the design of persona bots. However, the field of computational personality analysis heavily relies on labeled data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Yair Neuman , Vladyslav Kozhukhov , Dan Vilenchik

We propose a novel framework for persona-based language model system, motivated by the need for personalized AI agents that adapt to individual user preferences. In our approach, the agent embodies the user's "persona" (e.g. user profile or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Siqi Liang , Yudi Zhang , Yue Guo

Language-driven generative agents have enabled large-scale social simulations with transformative uses, from interpersonal training to aiding global policy-making. However, recent studies indicate that generative agent behaviors often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yunzhe Wang , Gale M. Lucas , Burcin Becerik-Gerber , Volkan Ustun

The confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Psychology presents an opportunity to model, understand, and interact with complex human psychological states through computational means. This paper presents a comprehensive,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anant Pareek

This paper introduces the Luca-Noise Reflex Protocol (LN-RP), a computational framework for analyzing noise-driven persona emergence in large language models. By injecting stochastic noise seeds into the initial generation state, we observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Toshiyuki Shigemura

We present MotionPersona, a novel real-time character controller that allows users to characterize a character by specifying attributes such as physical traits, mental states, and demographics, and projects these properties into the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mingyi Shi , Wei Liu , Jidong Mei , Wangpok Tse , Rui Chen , Xuelin Chen , Taku Komura

Text-based Person Retrieval (TPR) aims to retrieve person images that match the description given a text query. The performance improvement of the TPR model relies on high-quality data for supervised training. However, it is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zheng Li , Lijia Si , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Qiushi Cao

Controlling emergent behavioral personas (e.g., sycophancy, hallucination) in Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for AI safety, yet remains a persistent challenge. Existing solutions face a dilemma: manual prompt engineering is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Harshvardhan Saini , Yiming Tang , Dianbo Liu

Large Language Model (LLM) empowered agents have recently emerged as advanced paradigms that exhibit impressive capabilities in a wide range of domains and tasks. Despite their potential, current LLM agents often adopt a one-size-fits-all…

Personality control in Role-Playing Agents (RPAs) is commonly achieved via training-free methods that inject persona descriptions and memory through prompts or retrieval-augmented generation, or via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Wenqiu Tang , Zhen Wan , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as artificial agents offer the potential for scalable behavioral research, yet their validity depends on whether LLMs can maintain stable personas across extended conversations. We address this point…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jana Gonnermann-Müller , Jennifer Haase , Nicolas Leins , Thomas Kosch , Sebastian Pokutta

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across various domains. To further advance LLMs, we propose 'SELF' (Self-Evolution with Language Feedback), a novel approach that enables LLMs to self-improve through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jianqiao Lu , Wanjun Zhong , Wenyong Huang , Yufei Wang , Qi Zhu , Fei Mi , Baojun Wang , Weichao Wang , Xingshan Zeng , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Although pre-trained language models encode generic knowledge beneficial for planning and control, they may fail to generate appropriate control policies for domain-specific tasks. Existing fine-tuning methods use human feedback to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yunhao Yang , Neel P. Bhatt , Tyler Ingebrand , William Ward , Steven Carr , Zhangyang Wang , Ufuk Topcu

Unified large multimodal models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable progress in general-purpose multimodal understanding and generation. However, they still operate under a ``one-size-fits-all'' paradigm and struggle to model user-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yu Zhong , Tianwei Lin , Ruike Zhu , Yuqian Yuan , Haoyu Zheng , Liang Liang , Wenqiao Zhang , Feifei Shao , Haoyuan Li , Wanggui He , Hao Jiang , Yueting Zhuang

Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers new avenues for personality assessment by leveraging rich, open-ended text, moving beyond traditional questionnaires. In this study, we address the challenge of modeling long narrative interview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Rasiq Hussain , Jerry Ma , Rithik Khandelwal , Joshua Oltmanns , Mehak Gupta

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…

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) on language modeling and emergent capabilities make them a promising reference-free evaluator of natural language generation quality, and a competent alternative to human evaluation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yuxuan Liu , Tianchi Yang , Shaohan Huang , Zihan Zhang , Haizhen Huang , Furu Wei , Weiwei Deng , Feng Sun , Qi Zhang

Personality is a fundamental construct in psychology, reflecting an individual's behavior, thinking, and emotional patterns. Previous researches have made some progress in personality detection, primarily by utilizing the whole text to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zheng Li , Dawei Zhu , Qilong Ma , Weimin Xiong , Sujian Li