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  1. Refusal Lives Downstream of Persona in Chat Models

    Jun 24, 2026Viola Zhong, Qirui LiRefusalsPersona

  2. Causal Discovery in the Era of Agents

    Jun 22, 2026Yujia Zheng, Vishal Verma, Mantej Gill +3Causal Foundation ModelsLarge Language Model Reliability

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

    Jun 22, 2026Layla Bouzoubaa, Rezvaneh RezapourPersonaEmpathy

  4. Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice

    Jun 19, 2026Alice Ross, Ariadna Sanchez, Elin Kanhov +2GenderPersona

  5. GRAG: Generic Response-Augmented Generation Framework for Personalized Conversational Systems

    Jun 19, 2026Junfeng Liu, Christopher T. Symons, Ranga Raju VatsavaiPersonalizationConversational Artificial Intelligence

  6. ProfiLLM: Utility-Aligned Agentic User Profiling for Industrial Ride-Hailing Dispatch

    Jun 17, 2026Tengfei Lyu, Zirui Yuan, Xu Liu +4ProfileProfiling

  7. Talking to Your Data: Exploring Embodied Conversation as an Interface for Personal Health Reflection

    Jun 16, 2026Nikola Kovacevic, Bastien Husler, Di Zhuang +2Wearable DevicesEmbodied

  8. EComAgentBench: Benchmarking Shopping Agents on Long-Horizon Tasks with Distributed Hidden Intent

    Jun 16, 2026Zeyao Du, Tong Li, Haibo ZhangAgentic CommerceOpti-Agent-Bench

  9. DeSRPA: Decoupled Speech Role-Playing Agent via Inference-Time Intervention

    Jun 16, 2026Wenqiu Tang, Zhen Wan, Takahiro Komamizu +1Role-Playing Agents

  10. Creative Collision: Directorial Persona Steering and Competition in Large Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Subramanyam Sahoo, Justin ShenkCo-DirectorCreativity

  11. PAL-Bench: Evidence-Grounded Profile Reconstruction from Longitudinal Personal Albums

    Jun 15, 2026Qiwei Yan, Zhiqiang Yuan, Zexi Jia +4ProfileVerification-Triggered Multimodal

  12. Orchestrated Reality: From Role-Play to Living, Playable Game Worlds -- LLM-Driven World Simulation as a Parameterized-Action POMDP

    Jun 14, 2026Yuhang Huang, Chenmiao Li, Chaowei FangRole-Playing AgentsReal-World Environments

  13. Biarchetype analysis for univariate functional data. An application to macroeconomic financial time series

    Jun 14, 2026Aleix Alcacer, Rafael Benitez, Vicente J. Bolos +1Time SeriesPersonality

  14. Persona-Pruner: Sculpting Lightweight Models for Role-Playing

    Jun 12, 2026Jinsu Kim, Jihoon Tack, Noah Lee +1Role-Playing Agents

  15. Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents

    Jun 11, 2026Soumyajit Mitra, Prabhat Pandey, Abhinav Jain +2Turn-TakingVoice Agents

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

    Jun 11, 2026Sangwon Youn, Yoonjin Jang, Youngjoong KoPersonaContextual Grounding

  17. Trait, Not State: The Durability of Reading Identity in Social Highlighting

    Jun 11, 2026Kazuki Nakayashiki, Keisuke WatanabeProfileIdentity

  18. Vocal Identity Under Siege by AI Voice Cloning Technologies

    Jun 11, 2026Jyh-An Lee, Xuan SunCross-Lingual Voice CloningVocalizations

  19. Rethinking Psychometric Evaluation of LLMs: When and Why Self-Reports Predict Behavior

    Jun 10, 2026Rafal Kocielnik, Pengrui Han, Peiyang Song +5PersonalityPsychometrics

  20. Frozen Multimodal Embeddings for AI-Assisted Interview Assessment of Personality and Cognitive Ability

    Jun 10, 2026Kuo-En Hung, Hung-Yue Suen, Shih-Ching Yeh +1InterviewsModality-Specific Encoders

  21. When Role-playing, Do Models Believe What They Say?

    Jun 9, 2026Benjamin Sturgeon, David Africa, Sid BlackRole-Playing AgentsPersona

  22. Modeling Complex Behaviors: Multi-Personality Composition and Dynamic Switching in Vision-Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Peiqi Jia, Haonan Jia, Ziqi Miao +3PersonalityMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  23. Traits Run Deeper: Trait-Specific Asymmetric Fusion for Personality Assessment

    Jun 9, 2026Jia Li, Qian Chen, Wei Wang +5PersonalityMultimodal Fusion

  24. Emergent alignment and the projectability of ethical personas

    Jun 8, 2026Guillermo Del Pinal, Youngchan Lee, Calum McNamara +1Artificial Intelligence AlignmentMisalignment

  25. ZIPP:Zero-shot Image Personalization from Personas

    Jun 7, 2026Harini SI, Somesh Singh, Yaman Kumar Singla +2Persona

  26. REACT 2026: The Fourth Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge: Personalised MAFRG and Appropriate EEG Reaction Prediction

    Jun 6, 2026Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Zijian Wu +11Facial Expression RecognitionPersonality

  27. Beyond Individual Personas: Aligning Synthetic Dialogue to Population-Level Behavior Distributions

    Jun 5, 2026Xinyi Liu, Rinat Khaziev, Hooshang Nayyeri +3Conversational DatasetsPersona

  28. Does Persona Make LLMs K-pop Fans? A Pilot Study of LLM-Based Online Concert Audience Agents

    Jun 5, 2026Kirak Kim, Hyojin Kim, Yejin Son +2PersonaAudience Engagement

  29. RedditPersona: A Modular Framework for Community-Conditioned LLM Adaptation from Reddit

    Jun 4, 2026Amirhossein Ghaffari, Ali Goodarzi, Huong Nguyen +3Large Language Model AdaptationReddit

  30. Statistical Priors for Implicit Preferences: Decoupling Skill Selection as a Local Harness in Personal Agents

    Jun 4, 2026Zeyu Gan, Huayi Tang, Yong LiuPreference LearningAgentic Reinforcement-Learning Framework

  31. ArcANE: Do Role-Playing Language Agents Stay in Character at the Right Time?

    Jun 4, 2026Woojung Song, Nalim Kim, Sangjun Song +3Role-Playing AgentsCharacterization

  32. Self-supervised User Profile Generation for Personalization

    Jun 3, 2026Clark Mingxuan Ju, Yuwei Qiu, Tong Zhao +1ProfilePersonalization

  33. Large Language Models in K-12 Education: Alignment with State Curriculum Standards and Student Personas

    Jun 3, 2026Lisa Korver, Tomo Lazovich, Sherief RedaClassroomsCurriculum

  34. PersonaTree: Structured Lifecycle Memory for Person Understanding in LLM Agents

    Jun 3, 2026Yubo Hou, Jingwei Song, Hongbo Zhang +4Agent MemoryPersona

  35. Fog of Love: Engineering Virtuous Agent Behavior with Affinity-based Reinforcement Learning in a Game Environment

    Jun 3, 2026Ajay Vishwanath, Christian OmlinMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Agent Systems

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

    Jun 3, 2026Leonard Kinzinger, Jochen HartmannTwinsSurvey

  37. Coherence Maximization Improves Pluralistic Alignment

    Jun 2, 2026Taslim Mahbub, Yiding Pei, Shi FengArtificial Intelligence AlignmentHuman Values

  38. ΨΨ-Bench: Evaluating Persona-Sensitive Influencing in Persuasive Dialogues

    Jun 1, 2026Peixuan Han, Hongyi Du, Jiayu Liu +3PersuasionPersona

  39. MCP-Persona: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Personal Applications via Environment Simulation

    Jun 1, 2026Wenhao Wang, Peizhi Niu, Gongyi Zou +9Agentic BenchmarksModel Context Protocol

  40. Ablating Archetypes: The Stability of Archetypal SAEs is an Artifact of Initialization and Metric Design

    Jun 1, 2026Michał Brzozowski, Neo Christopher ChungImproving Sparse AutoencodersUnsupervised Dictionary Learning

  41. Breaking the Information Silo: Semantic Personas for Cross-Domain Recommendation

    Jun 1, 2026Jonathan Mayo, Moshe Unger, Konstantin BaumanMultimodal RecommendationPersonalization

  42. RoleCDE:Benchmarking and Mitigating Role-Alignment Trade-offs in Role-Playing Agents

    Jun 1, 2026Huayi Lai, Shichao Song, Simin Niu +5Role-Playing AgentsRole

  43. NBQ: Next-Best-Question for Dynamic Profiling

    May 30, 2026Yimin Shi, Clarice Wang, Haixun Wang +1ProfileProfiling

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

    May 30, 2026Asvin GAuthorshipPersona

  45. Persona Conditioning of Brand Recommendations in Retrieval-Augmented Commercial Chat: A Prominence-Stratified Cross-Provider Audit

    May 28, 2026Will Jack, Noah Lehman, Keller Maloney +1Brand PairsPersona

  46. AgentSchool: An LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Simulation for Education

    May 28, 2026Yulei Ye, Wenhao Li, Zhong Wen +23Multi-Agent SimulationsEducation

  47. HEART-Bench: Do LLM Agents Exhibit Human-like Psychology?

    May 28, 2026Weihan Peng, Chenxu Zhang, Qianao Wang +7PersonalityLarge Language Model Agents

  48. Who Am I? History-Aware Profiles for Student Simulation in Tutoring Dialogues

    May 28, 2026Zhangqi Duan, Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos +3User SimulationTutors

  49. Adaptive Interviewing for Persona Simulation in LLMs: Evidence-Grounded Reasoning Improves Decision Alignment

    May 28, 2026Ruoxi Su, Yuhan Liu, Jingyu HuLarge Language Model Decision-MakingPersona

  50. 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 +4PersonaLarge Language Model Responses

  51. DynSess: Dynamic Session-Level Evaluation and Optimization Framework for Role-Playing Agents

    May 28, 2026Rongsheng Zhang, Jiji Tang, Junnan Ren +6Role-Playing AgentsDynawm

  52. Analyzing Persona Effects in Generated Explanations from Multimodal LLM Agents in Urban Perception

    May 27, 2026Neemias da Silva, Myriam Delgado, Rodrigo Minetto +2PersonaMultimodal Agents

  53. The Ethics of LLM Sandbox and Persona Dynamics

    May 27, 2026Tim Gebbie, Stewart GebbieEthicsLarge Language Model Safety

  54. Personality, Role, and Expressive Style in Large Language Models: An Interactionist Analysis

    May 27, 2026Moe Nagao, Koichiro Terao, Mikio Nakano +1PersonalityLarge Language Model Bias

  55. ChildEval: When large language models meet children's personalities

    May 27, 2026Yanyan Luo, Xue Han, Chunxu Zhao +5Large Language Model EvaluationPersonality

  56. Diagnosing Live Within-Policy Instruction Conflicts in LLM Agents with Witnessed Resolution Profiles

    May 27, 2026Lu Yan, Xuan Chen, Xiangyu ZhangLarge Language Model AgentsInstruction-Tuned Models

  57. Attribute-Based Diagnosis of LLM Alignment with Hate Speech Annotations

    May 26, 2026Mohammad Amine Jradi, Faeze Ghorbanpour, Alexander FraserHate SpeechLarge Language Model Alignment

  58. StreamProfileBench: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained User Profile Inference in Real-World Streaming Scenarios

    May 25, 2026Sizhe Wang, Feiyu Duan, Juelin Wang +2ProfileAnalytics

  59. From Facts to Insights: A Persona-Driven Dual Memory Framework and Dataset for Role-Playing Agents

    May 25, 2026Rongsheng Zhang, Ruofan Hu, Weijie Chen +7Role-Playing AgentsSummarization

  60. CRPO: Character-centric Group Relative Policy Optimization for Role-aware Reasoning in Role-playing Agents

    May 25, 2026Yihong Tang, Kehai Chen, Liang Yue +2Role-Playing AgentsGroup Relative Policy Optimization