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  1. The Persona Is Still There, but Who Is Speaking? Latent Identity Reversion in Persistent AI Agents

    Oct 1, 2026David Fraile NavarroArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  2. LLM Persona Unlearning

    Sep 30, 2026Kemou Li, Zhuan Shi, Qizhou Wang +4Artificial Intelligence PersonasLarge Language Model Unlearning

    State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau · Mila – Québec AI Institute · McGill University +3

  3. Persona Following Is Not Selective Control: The Neutrality Gap in LLM User Simulation

    Sep 28, 2026Jiashen Ren, Wenlin Zhang, Bohan Zhang +5Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    City University of Hong Kong · Stanford University

  4. PersonaManifold: Revealing and Exploiting Curved Geometry in LLM Persona Representations

    Sep 28, 2026Rui Xu, Yinghui Xu, Libo WuArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  5. PERSONAWEAVER: Controllable Diversity Beyond Conventional Archetypes in Procedural Character Generation

    Sep 22, 2026Maan Qraitem, Kate Saenko, Bryan A. PlummerArtificial Intelligence PersonasMotion Generation

    Boston University

  6. Story Imprinting: AI Assistants Absorb Traits from Human Characters They Resemble

    Sep 12, 2026Jorio Cocola, Lev McKinney, Harry Mayne +2Artificial Intelligence PersonasArtificial Intelligence Assistants

    Truthful AI · Harvard University · METR +1

  7. A Three-Tier Persona Vector for Controllable User Simulation in Agentic Evaluation

    Sep 8, 2026Rahul Khedar, Eshita, Sneha Teja Sree Reddy Thondapu +6Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    PayPal AI

  8. Emotional Labor Strategy Preferences in LLM Personas

    Aug 31, 2026Mohammad Saim, Tianyu JiangArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    University of Cincinnati

  9. Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events

    Aug 6, 2026Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

  10. Passing Coarse Marginal Checks Can Be Cheap: Persona Mixtures and Imprecise Treatment-Response Estimates in an LLM Persona Panel

    Aug 2, 2026Yohei NakajimaArtificial Intelligence PersonasEfficient Sequence Mixers

    Untapped Capital

  11. Learning Dynamic User Personas from Implicit Interaction Streams via Iterative Refinement

    Jul 29, 2026Haifeng WuArtificial Intelligence PersonasPreference Learning

    PayPal

  12. Distributional Validity of a Korean Synthetic Persona Panel: Evidence From the Korea Media Panel Survey

    Jul 23, 2026Howard Kim, Keuntae ChoArtificial Intelligence PersonasSurvey

    College of AI Convergence, Seoul Cyber University, Seoul 01133, South Korea · Department of Management of Technology, Graduate School, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea · Department of Systems Management Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea

  13. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Persona Simulation in Opinion Prediction with GPT-4.1

    Jul 22, 2026Sarah Y. Li, Ziyu YaoArtificial Intelligence PersonasUser Simulation

    McLean High School · McLean, VA, USA · Department of Computer Science +1

  14. The Story Shapes the Agent: Narrative Priors in LLM Behavior

    Jul 20, 2026Yixuan Wang, James Lester, Shashank SrivastavaArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · North Carolina State University

  15. The Librarian Who Refused to Code: Model-Dependent Identity Enactment in LLM Code Generation

    Jul 19, 2026Shayell Aharon Salomon, Noam Israel, Ido Safruti +1Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    Bluebear Security

  16. Toward Anthropomorphic Dialogue: A Closed-Loop Framework for Human-Like Chat Generation, Evaluation, and Preference Alignment

    Jul 19, 2026Wentao Liu, Siyu Song, Xi Chen +4Dialogue BenchmarksArtificial Intelligence Personas

    1Shanghai Institute of Innovation · 2East China Normal University · University of Science and Technology of China +3

  17. Distribution-First Population Simulation: Collapse, Calibration, and Recall in Non-WEIRD LLM Persona Modeling

    Jul 17, 2026Gurkan OzkanArtificial Intelligence PersonasUser Simulation

    Istanbul Technical University

  18. From Triggers to Emotions: A CPM-Grounded Appraisal Multi-Agent for Dynamic Emotional Evolution in Persona-Based Dialogue

    Jul 8, 2026Jingyao Cai, Shuaijun Liu, Abdul Rehman +6EmpathyArtificial Intelligence Personas

    National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom · Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Key Laboratory of Child Cognition & Behavior Development of Hainan Province, Qiongtai Normal University, Haikou, China +2

  19. The Dual Nature of LLM Persona: Aggregated Tendencies and Frame-Dependent Geometry

    Jul 2, 2026Yuan YuanArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    Independent Researcher.

  20. Behavior-Adaptive Conversational Agents: Toward a Fluid Personality Framework

    Jul 1, 2026Hasibur Rahman, Smit DesaiArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    Northeastern University Boston, MA, USA

  21. Persona Non Grata: LLM Persona-Driven Generations in MCQA are Unstable in Distinct Dimensions

    Jul 1, 2026César Guerra-Solano, Xiang Lorraine LiArtificial Intelligence PersonasMultiple-Choice Questions

    Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh

  22. Fund2Persona: A Framework for Building and Refining Financial Advisor Personas from Fund Disclosure Data

    Jun 29, 2026Suhwan Park, Hoyoung Lee, Zhangyang Wang +5Financial Strategy ResearchArtificial Intelligence Personas

    UNIST · LinqAlpha · University of Texas at Austin +3

  23. Self-Stigma Is Not a Monolith, but Generic Empathy Is: Persona-Conditioned LLM Support for People Who Use Drugs

    Jun 22, 2026Layla Bouzoubaa, Rezvaneh RezapourArtificial Intelligence PersonasEmpathy

    Department of Information Science Drexel University Philadelphia, PA

  24. CASPER in the Machine: Insights into Character Variety in LLM-Generated Stories

    Jun 21, 2026Anneliese Brei, Abhisheik Sharma, Nicholas Sanaie +2Narrative GenerationHuman-Written Text

    UNC Chapel Hill · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Michigan

  25. HyPE: Category-Aware Hypergraph Encoding with Persistent Edge Embeddings for Persona-Grounded Dialogue

    Jun 11, 2026Sangwon Youn, Yoonjin Jang, Youngjoong KoArtificial Intelligence PersonasHypergraphs

    Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

  26. PromptPrint: Behavioral Biometrics Through Natural Language Prompting in LLMs

    Jun 4, 2026Shaiv Patel, Kartik Narayan, Vishal PatelAuthorshipLarge Language Model Bias

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

  27. From Self to Other: Evaluating Demographic Perspective-Taking in LLM Hate Speech Annotation

    Jun 4, 2026Paloma Piot, Javier ParaparHate Speech DetectionLarge Language Model Annotations

    Information Retrieval Lab CITIC Research Centre Universidade da Coruña

  28. Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual Respondents Using Socio-Economic Microdata?

    Jun 3, 2026Leonard Kinzinger, Jochen HartmannTwinsSurvey

    aTUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany

  29. The Assistant as a Privileged Persona: A canonical reference in cross-persona self-recognition

    May 30, 2026Asvin GArtificial Intelligence PersonasAuthorship

    Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

  30. When Does Persona Prompting Actually Help? A Retrieval and Metric Analysis of Expert Role Injection in LLMs

    May 28, 2026Shuai Xiao, Su Liu, Weikai Zhou +4Artificial Intelligence PersonasResponses

    Independent Researchers

  31. Persona Prompting in Multimodal Urban Perception: Descriptive Convergence and Interpretive Variation

    May 27, 2026Neemias da Silva, Matt Ratto, Myriam Delgado +3Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada · Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

  32. ContextEcho: A Benchmark for Persona Drift in Long Agentic-Coding Sessions

    May 22, 2026Xianzhong Ding, Yangyang Yu, Changwei Liu +1Artificial Intelligence PersonasCoding Agents

    Center for Advanced AI, Accenture

  33. One Policy, Infinite NPCs: Persona-Traceable Shared RL Policies for Scalable Game Agents

    May 22, 2026Yoosung HongArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    Independent Researcher

  34. As X, Do Y: How Persona and Task Combine in Instruction-Tuned LLMs

    May 22, 2026Eric XuArtificial Intelligence PersonasInstruction-Tuned Models

    Independent Researcher

  35. A Heterogeneous Temporal Memory Governance Framework for Long-Term LLM Persona Consistency

    May 14, 2026Zhao Yang, Wang Huan, Li Yingshuo +2Artificial Intelligence PersonasConversational Memory

    Changchun Kelaile Technology Co., Ltd, Qinglong Road, Luyuan District, Changchun, 130000, Jilin, China. · School of Electronic Information, Zhongshan Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 1 Xueyuan Road,2026 Zhongshan, 528402, Guangdong, China.

  36. How Well Do Large Language Models Capture Human Personality?

    May 12, 2026Aanisha Bhattacharyya, Yaman Kumar Singla, Rajiv Ratn Shah +2Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    Adobe Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) · IIIT-Delhi · SUNY at Buffalo

  37. When Can Digital Personas Reliably Approximate Human Survey Findings?

    May 11, 2026Mumin Jia, Yilin Chen, Divya Sharma +1Artificial Intelligence PersonasSurvey

    Department of Mathematics and Statistics York University Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 · Department of Biostatistics University Health Network Toronto, ON M5G 2C4

  38. Do Linear Probes Generalize Better in Persona Coordinates?

    May 10, 2026Prasad Mahadik, Adrians SkaparsArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    Independent Researcher · University of Manchester

  39. Do LLMs Experience an Internal Polylogue? Investigating Reasoning through the Lens of Personas

    May 9, 2026Nils A. Herrmann, Leander Girrbach, Kirill Bykov +1LLM Reasoning StrategiesArtificial Intelligence Personas

    1Technical University of Munich · 2Helmholtz Munich · 3Munich

  40. UserGPT Technical Report

    May 9, 2026Yunyi Xuan, Hao Yi, Fengling Mao +9User ModelingArtificial Intelligence Personas

    1Alibaba Group

  41. Post-training makes large language models less human-like

    May 8, 2026Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Abdullah Almaatouq +76Artificial Intelligence PersonasLarge Language Model Alignment

  42. Prober.ai: Gated Inquiry-Based Feedback via LLM-Constrained Personas for Argumentative Writing Development

    May 7, 2026Ran Bi, Shiyao Wei, Yuanyiyi ZhouAi-Assisted WritingTutors

    1Florida State University · 2New York University

  43. How Personas Can Influence Agents to Play Split or Steal

    May 3, 2026Carlos Leon, Alexandre Rodrigues, Pedro Gamito +1Artificial Intelligence PersonasSocial Reasoning

    Universidade Lusófona, Portugal · Universitat de Barcelona, Spain · Université Paris Cité, France +1

  44. Adaptive Querying with AI Persona Priors

    May 1, 2026Kaizheng Wang, Yuhang Wu, Assaf ZeeviArtificial Intelligence PersonasElicitation

    Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Data Science Institute, Columbia University. · Decision, Risk, and Operations Division, Columbia Business School.

  45. Persona Without Substrate: Regime-Dependence and the LLM Individuation Problem

    May 1, 2026Shuaizhi ChengArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    Harbin Institute of Technology

  46. Characterizing the Consistency of the Emergent Misalignment Persona

    Apr 30, 2026Anietta Weckauff, Yuchen Zhang, Maksym AndriushchenkoEmergent MisalignmentArtificial Intelligence Personas

    ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen AI Center

  47. Stable Behavior, Limited Variation: Persona Validity in LLM Agents for Urban Sentiment Perception

    Apr 30, 2026Neemias B da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto, Daniel Silver +1Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    Universidade Tecnol´ogica Federal do Paran´a (UTFPR), Curitiba, Brazil · University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  48. Building Persona-Based Agents On Demand: Tailoring Multi-Agent Workflows to User Needs

    Apr 30, 2026Giuseppe Arbore, Andrea Sillano, Luigi De RussisArtificial Intelligence PersonasMulti-Agent Workflows

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  49. Mapping how LLMs debate societal issues when shadowing human personality traits, sociodemographics and social media behavior

    Apr 30, 2026Ali Aghazadeh Ardebili, Massimo StellaLarge Language Model BiasArtificial Intelligence Personas

    CogNosco Lab, University of Trento, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Trento, Italy

  50. The Chameleon's Limit: Investigating Persona Collapse and Homogenization in Large Language Models

    Apr 27, 2026Yunze Xiao, Vivienne J. Zhang, Chenghao Yang +3Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    CMU · UChicago · MIT +3

  51. The Pragmatic Persona: Discovering LLM Persona through Bridging Inference

    Apr 27, 2026Jisoo Yang, Jongwon Ryu, Minuk Ma +2Artificial Intelligence PersonasDiscourse

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea · Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia,2026 Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada · Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  52. Personality Shapes Gender Bias in Persona-Conditioned LLM Narratives Across English and Hindi: An Empirical Investigation

    Apr 26, 2026Tanay Kumar, Shreya Gautam, Aman Chadha +2Artificial Intelligence PersonasGender Bias

    PolitecnicodiMilano · Apple · Meta

  53. Measuring and Mitigating Persona Distortions from AI Writing Assistance

    Apr 24, 2026Paul Röttger, Kobi Hackenburg, Hannah Rose Kirk +1Ai-Assisted WritingWriting

    University of Oxford · UK AI Security Institute

  54. The Virtual Roundtable: Multi-Agent Personas Simulating the Dynamics of Human Brainstorming

    Apr 17, 2026Tim Dorn, Saara A. Khan, Julie MumfordScientific IdeationArtificial Intelligence Personas

    Reality Labs, Meta, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

  55. Persona Matters: Effects of Activation Steering on Short Answer Generation and Scoring

    Apr 8, 2026Yongchao Wu, Aron HenrikssonArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    Stockholm University, NOD-huset, Borgarfjordsgatan 12, 16455 Stockholm, Sweden

  56. Bridging Mechanistic Interpretability and Prompt Engineering with Gradient Ascent for Interpretable Persona Control

    Jan 6, 2026Harshvardhan Saini, Yiming Tang, Dianbo LiuArtificial Intelligence PersonasLarge Language Model Policy Optimization

    Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad · National University of Singapore

  57. Where is the Mind? Persona Vectors and LLM Individuation

    Date pendingPierre Beckmann, Patrick ButlinArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    MATS · EPFL & Idiap Research Institute · Eleos AI Research