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  1. Adversarial Closed-Loop Curriculum for Evolving Role-Playing Agents

    Sep 23, 2026Zheng Zhang, Liu Liu, Qi Chai +4Role-Playing Agents

  2. From "Who Is This User?" to "What Does This Purchase Mean?": A Deployed Pipeline for Semantic User Profiling at Bank Scale

    Sep 17, 2026Ryota Mitsuhashi, Tetsuro Morimura, Hirotake ItoProfileTransaction Histories

  3. Reproducing Transparent and Scrutable Recommendations: Exploring Open-Weight Models via Natural-Language User Profiles

    Sep 17, 2026Noah Mamié, Laurin van den BerghRecommender SystemsProfile

  4. PersonaPath: Towards Knowledge-Centric Personalized Learning Path Planning

    Sep 16, 2026Yu Liu, Zeming Liu, Tianle Zhang +6CurriculumPersona

  5. RoleBreak: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Role-Playing Robustness in Spoken Dialogue

    Sep 15, 2026Yuqi Wang, Fengyuan Liu, Haochen Luo +2Role-Playing AgentsVocalizations

  6. Before You Poll with LLMs: A Deliberative Diagnostic Framework

    Sep 14, 2026Ahmed Wali, Hassaan TayyabDeliberationPolitical Discourse

  7. Empathy Is Steerable but Multi-Axial: Mechanism Geometry and Persona Effects in LLMs

    Sep 14, 2026JuHeon Ha, Byounghan Lee, Yunseo Choi +1EmpathyPersona

  8. Spook the Machine: Gamified Exploration of Human Imagination of Machine Fear

    Sep 14, 2026Levin Brinkmann, Hiromu Yakura, Sonia Nicoletti +9Human-Ai InteractionFears

  9. Implicit Personality Representations in Humans and LLMs

    Sep 14, 2026Yilin Geng, Omri Abend, Eduard Hovy +1PersonalityMean Opinion Scores

  10. Diverse Minds, Divided Networks? Personality Composition, Polarization, and Collective Intelligence in LLM-Based Social Simulations

    Sep 14, 2026Raad Bin TareafPersonalityIdeology

  11. I Am AdMan: A Pipeline for Automatic Generation of Personalized Advertising Imagery

    Sep 14, 2026Victor Kolominsky-Rabas, Leopold Müller, Claudius Budcke +1AdsGenerative Artificial Intelligence

  12. MedRoundsQA: A Persona and Difficulty Aware Evaluation for Multi-Turn Medical Consultations

    Sep 14, 2026Youssef Mohamed, Ahmed Heakl, Qinrong Cui +13Diagnostic BenchmarkPersona

  13. KuaiRP Series Role-playing Models Technical Report

    Sep 12, 2026Yipeng Wang, Ziwei Zhang, Jiahui Zhang +2Role-Playing AgentsOn-Policy Distillation

  14. DuplexDrama: A Synthesized Dialogue Dataset with Scenarios, Full-Duplex Behaviors, Expressive Speech, and Sound Events

    Sep 11, 2026Qingxiang Guo, Wenke Fan, Shuofeng Zhao +9Conversational DatasetsFull-Duplex Speech Models

  15. K/V-Cache Interventions Dissociate Representation Alignment from Persona Expression in Decoder-Only Language Models

    Sep 11, 2026Yu Sun, Mengyin Lu, Cong Feng +2Kv-Cache BlocksPersona

  16. Creating an Atomic User Model for Personality-Aware Large Language Model Interaction

    Sep 10, 2026B. Sankar, Deepthika S, Pawni Yadav +1PersonalityPersonalization

  17. SA-Profile: Automated Sulcus Angle Profiling from Super-Resolution MRI

    Sep 9, 2026Michael Wehrli, Leo Widmer, Edwin Li +5Musculoskeletal CareKey Vertebral Morphometry Variables

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

    Sep 8, 2026Rahul Khedar, Eshita, Sneha Teja Sree Reddy Thondapu +6PersonaPersonality

  19. Less Is Personal: Learning Minimal Sufficient User Profiles for Personalized Language Models

    Sep 8, 2026Minghang Liu, Qiang Qiu, Yuanzhuo Wang +2PersonalizationProfile

  20. Perspectives on Cross-Lingual Consistency in LLMs for Medical Questions

    Sep 7, 2026Minh Duc Bui, Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Abteen Ebrahimi +4Cross-Lingual ConsistencyMultilingual Data

  21. Aegix Pulse: A Traceable Three-Stage Architecture for Personalized Content Generation and Context-Preserving Revision

    Sep 7, 2026Hongnan Zhao, Shiyu Chen, Zhihao ChenAi-GeneratedPersona

  22. From Simulated Citizens to Simulated Deliberation: Challenges in Representation and Interaction

    Sep 7, 2026Chaemin Jang, Junsik Min, Jaewoo Choi +9DeliberationOpinion Dynamics

  23. Encoded Early, Used Late: Where Transformers Begin to Act on an Inferred Partner's Expertise

    Sep 7, 2026Mika Okamoto, Gabriele SartiTransformer EncoderExpert Demonstrations

  24. VIBE-Bench: Evaluating Personalized Large Language Models When Profiles Don't Mean Preferences

    Sep 1, 2026Yiwen Jiang, Yang Deng, Stephanie Fong +9PersonalizationBenchmarking Large Language Models

  25. Emotional Labor Strategy Preferences in LLM Personas

    Aug 31, 2026Mohammad Saim, Tianyu JiangPersonalityPersona

  26. Personas Differ from Native-Language Generation: Language Pathways Shape LLM Interpersonal Advice

    Aug 31, 2026Jinhee Won, Xinlan Emily HuPersona

  27. A Dual-Cam Parallel Elastic Actuator with Shared Gas-Spring Compensation for Humanoid Ankles

    Aug 31, 2026Jingcheng Jiang, Yifang Zhang, Nikos G. TsagarakisSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsActuator

  28. The Safety Relay in Roleplay Jailbreaks: A Component-Resolved Causal Analysis of Harm Recognition and Refusal

    Aug 31, 2026Md Mokarram Chowdhury, Ernie Chang, Yang LiNovel Jailbreak MethodJailbreaks

  29. Demand-Side Measurement for Generative Engine Optimization: Constructing and Validating a Million-Persona, Intent-Annotated Buyer Corpus

    Aug 30, 2026Dmitrij Żatuchin, Daniil DzemesjukPersonaOnline Shoppers Purchasing Intention

  30. R2^2A: Learning Persona Policies Through Persona Representation Learning and Runtime Alignment

    Aug 30, 2026Mohan Zhang, Chengsong You, Xiaoyu Cao +4PersonaBehavioral Alignment

  31. When Personality Meets Quantization: A Layer-wise MBTI Analysis of Quantized LLMs

    Aug 26, 2026Yao Fu, Lijia Huang, Xiaomin Li +3PersonalityLarge Language Model Quantization

  32. MoPLEx: Estimating Plackett-Luce Mixture Models for Multi-Objective Alignment

    Aug 25, 2026Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang +1Preference AlignmentLate-Stage Ranker

  33. Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero

    Aug 13, 2026Julian Minder, Viktor Moskvoretskii, Raghav Singhal +12Artificial Intelligence AlignmentPersona

  34. Inverse Theory of Mind Modeling for Content Recommendation: From Web Browsing to Dynamic Intelligent Interfaces

    Aug 11, 2026Mengyu Chen, Feiyu Lu, Chun-Fu Chen +2PersonalityWeb

  35. Your LLM, Your Style: Behavioral Mode Axes for LLM Behavioral Control

    Aug 11, 2026Haoze Liu, Run Liu, Haiying Xu +6PersonalityBehavioral Alignment

  36. Persona Conditioning as an Assessor-Sensitivity Probe for LLM-Based IR Evaluation

    Aug 11, 2026Samaneh Mohtadi, Pietro Bernardelle, Joel Mackenzie +1Large Language Model EvaluationInformation Retrieval Metrics

  37. How Do Large Language Models Judge Social Attraction? Evidence from Theory-Grounded Persona Ratings Across Multiple LLMs and Humans

    Aug 10, 2026Hasan Mahmud, Khawaja Abaid Ullah, Mohammad Javad Khojasteh +2Mean Opinion ScoresLarge Language Model Judges

  38. UserToolBench: A User-Profile-Hidden Benchmark for Personalized Decision Making in Tool-Use LLMs

    Aug 10, 2026Xuexiong Yin, Zechuan Chen, Yongsen Zheng +5ProfileMulti-Turn Tool-Use Agent

  39. Privacy-Preserving Data Drift Detection and Recovery for Large-Scale LLM Applications via Proxy Representations

    Aug 8, 2026Michael Levit, Josh Ledgard, Haoyu Dong +5Synthetic DataProfile

  40. "Many Are My Names": The Anatomy of the Assistant and Its Personas via Sparse Autoencoders

    Aug 8, 2026Adelaide Danilov, Aria Nourbakhsh, Oleksandr Marchenko Breneur +1Role-Playing AgentsPersona

  41. PHASE-Tree: Modeling Character-State Evolution in Long-Horizon Role-Playing Dialogue

    Aug 7, 2026Bo Tang, Jianan Yang, Junyi Zhu +7Role-Playing AgentsConversational Benchmarks

  42. WebRider: Persona-Conditioned Intent Controllers for Live-Web Assistance

    Aug 7, 2026Zhi Li, Tao Zhou, Yeqing Li +2Web AgentsWeb

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

    Aug 6, 2026Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4PersonalityPersona

  44. FOCUS: Decoupling Expert Personas in LLMs to Enhance Domain Expert Capabilities

    Aug 6, 2026Guanyu Wang, Zidi Zhang, Xu ChuPersonaExperts

  45. Recovering Lesion Parameters from Aphasic Picture Naming Error Profiles in Large Language Models

    Aug 5, 2026Yong Yang, Roger Newman-Norlund, Xiang Guan +10Large Language Model PerformanceStroke

  46. The Personalization Mirage: How LLMs Fabricate User Profiles, and Why Self-Monitoring Misleads

    Aug 5, 2026Yushi Sun, Yanjie Zhang, Rui ShengProfileOverconfidence

  47. Otter: A Time-Aware, History-Conditioned Human Chess AI

    Aug 5, 2026Tarun Kumar SChessHuman Motion Prediction

  48. MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou +90Persona

  49. PAST-Bench: Benchmarking the Foundations of Recursive Self-Improvement in Personal Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Shuhan Xue, Zixin Ding, Yichen Shen +6Recursive Self-ImprovementSelf-Evolving Agents

  50. When Agents Learn to Be You: Benchmarking Privacy Leakage, Impersonation Risk, and Defenses in Persona Skills

    Aug 4, 2026Yongli Xiang, Zhifang Zhang, Bojun Yang +4Efficient Privacy LossPersona

  51. Adversarial Stress Testing of Role-Playing Language Agents using Multi-Agent Evaluation

    Aug 4, 2026Saqib Shouqi, Abdullah Nazly, Januki Wanniarachchi +1Adversarial EvaluationRole-Playing Agents

  52. MIEScore: Human-Aligned Evaluation for Multi-Source Image Editing

    Aug 3, 2026Zitong Xu, Huiyu Duan, Xinyun Zhang +7Image EditingUnified Multimodal Models

  53. CompanionBench: A Theory-Anchored, Real-World-Grounded Benchmark for AI Emotional Companionship

    Aug 3, 2026Yao Liu, Guangjia Chai, Yuming Huang +3Artificial Intelligence CompanionsFirst Comprehensive Benchmark

  54. Talking to Digital Twins: Selective Disclosure and Belief Measurement in Financial Social Media

    Aug 2, 2026Boone Bowles, Raymond Duch, Sorin SorescuSocial MediaSocial Influence

  55. PlantRig - From Bones to Branches: Adaptation of Autoregressive Rigging Models for Plant Skeletal Reconstruction

    Aug 2, 2026Nathan Hu, Yang Yang, Fumio OkuraRigid ObjectsAutoregressive Model

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

    Aug 2, 2026Yohei NakajimaPersonaMixtures

  57. Ekova: A Personality-Support Agent for Self-Discovery Dialogue

    Aug 1, 2026Yuyan ChenEmotional SupportPersona

  58. TRACE Bench: Task-driven Roleplay Agentic Checklist Evaluation

    Jul 31, 2026Jiahui Zhang, Ziwei Zhang, Yipeng Wang +7Role-Playing Agents

  59. Best Friends, Not Forever: Evaluating Long-Horizon Persona Collapse and Behavioral Drift in AI Companions

    Jul 30, 2026Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Akshara Prabhakar, Yu Li +2Artificial Intelligence CompanionsPeers

  60. Beyond a Single Judge: The Evidence-Grounded, Social-Weighted Persona Panel for Generative UI Evaluation

    Jul 30, 2026Zheng Wu, Yibo Luo, Pu Zhang +2PersonaJudges