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  1. P1SCO: Social Dimensions from a Perspectivist Lens

    May 25, 2026Amanda Cercas Curry, Gianmarco de Francisci Morales, Luca Maria AielloSocial MediaReddit

  2. STREAM: A Data-Centric Framework for Mining High-Value Task-Oriented Dialogues from Streaming Media

    May 24, 2026Liang Xue, Haoyu Liu, Cheng Wang +3Conversational DatasetsDialogue

  3. Exploring Profiles of Cognitive Distortions Associated with Mental Health Disorders

    May 24, 2026Alina Anikejeva, Kairit SirtsMental HealthEffect Sizes

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

    May 22, 2026Xianzhong Ding, Yangyang Yu, Changwei Liu +1PersonaCoding Agents

  5. Riemannian Archetypal Analysis: Interpretable non-linear data analysis on deformed star distributions

    May 22, 2026Willem Diepeveen, Deanna NeedellData-DrivenModel Interpretability

  6. Prominence-Stratified Failure Modes in Retrieval-Augmented Commercial Recommendation: A 37,000-Run Audit

    May 22, 2026Will Jack, Noah Lehman, Keller Maloney +1Brand PairsFailure Mechanism

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

    May 22, 2026Yoosung HongPersonaReinforcement-Learning Policies

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

    May 22, 2026Eric XuInstruction-Tuned ModelsPersona

  9. Perception or Prejudice: Can MLLMs Go Beyond First Impressions of Personality?

    May 21, 2026Caixin Kang, Tianyu Yan, Sitong Gong +8PersonalityCognitive Science

  10. Playing Devil's Advocate: Off-the-Shelf Persona Vectors Rival Targeted Steering for Sycophancy

    May 20, 2026Ishaan Kelkar, Nebras Alam, Vikram Kakaria +3SycophancyPersona

  11. Personality Engineering with AI Agents: A New Methodology for Negotiation Research

    May 19, 2026Michelle A. Vaccaro, Jared R. CurhanNegotiationPersonality

  12. Reinforcing Human Behavior Simulation via Verbal Feedback

    May 19, 2026Weiwei Sun, Xuhui Zhou, Jiarui Liu +13User SimulationVerbalization

  13. SocialMemBench: Are AI Memory Systems Ready for Social Group Settings?

    May 18, 2026Olukunle OwolabiConversational BenchmarksAgent Memory

  14. HyperPersona: A Multi-Level Hypergraph Framework for Text-Based Automatic Personality Prediction

    May 17, 2026Sina Heydari, Majid RamezaniPersonalityLinguistics

  15. PersonaArena: Dynamic Simulation for Evaluating and Enhancing Persona-Level Role-Playing in Large Language Models

    May 16, 2026Wenlong Shi, Jianxun Lian, Mingqi Wu +5Role-Playing AgentsPersona

  16. Evaluation Drift in LLM Personality Induction: Are We Moving the Goalpost?

    May 16, 2026Prateek Rajput, Yewei Song, Iyiola E. Olatunji +2PersonalityLong-Form Generation

  17. Marginal Alignment Does Not Guarantee Joint-Distribution Fidelity: An Official-Reference Audit of Nemotron-Personas-Korea with Cross-Locale Replication

    May 15, 2026Joonhyung BaeDemographicsPersona

  18. Improving Cross-Cultural Survey Simulation with Calibrated Value Personas

    May 15, 2026Axel Abels, Elias Fernandez Domingos, Apurva Shah +1User SimulationCultural Knowledge

  19. ALSO: Adversarial Online Strategy Optimization for Social Agents

    May 15, 2026Xiang Li, Liping Yi, Mingze Kong +3Multi-Agent SimulationsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

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

    May 14, 2026Zhao Yang, Wang Huan, Li Yingshuo +2Long-Term Conversational MemoryPersona

  21. SimPersona: Learning Discrete Buyer Personas from Raw Clickstreams for Grounded E-Commerce Agents

    May 14, 2026Zahra Zanjani Foumani, Alberto Castelo, Shuang Xie +3Agentic CommercePersona

  22. BOOKMARKS: Efficient Active Storyline Memory for Role-playing

    May 13, 2026Letian Peng, Ziche Liu, Yiming Huang +4Agent MemoryRole-Playing Agents

  23. EconAI: Dynamic Persona Evolution and Memory-Aware Agents in Evolving Economic Environments

    May 13, 2026Annie Liu, Zane Cao, Lang Chen +2Multi-Agent SimulationsEconomies

  24. Patients With Personality: Realistic Patient Simulation through Controlled Diversity and Selective Disclosure

    May 13, 2026Moritz Schlager, Friederike Jungmann, Samuel Schmidgall +12Simulated PatientsPersonality

  25. Tracing Persona Vectors Through LLM Pretraining

    May 13, 2026Viktor Moskvoretskii, Dominik Glandorf, Jorge Medina Moreira +2PersonalityLarge Language Model Safety

  26. Beyond Cooperative Simulators: Generating Realistic User Personas for Robust Evaluation of LLM Agents

    May 13, 2026Harshita Chopra, Kshitish Ghate, Aylin Caliskan +3User SimulationPersona

  27. scShapeBench: Discovering geometry from high dimensional scRNAseq data

    May 12, 2026Andrew J Steindl, João Felipe Rocha, Brian Tshilengi Di Bassinga +13Single-Cell Rna SequencingStatistical Shape Model

  28. PrivacySIM: Evaluating LLM Simulation of User Privacy Behavior

    May 12, 2026James Flemings, Murali AnnavaramUser SimulationPersona

  29. Simulating Eating Disorder Patients with LLMs: Evaluating Psychological Persona Stability in Multi-Turn Conversations

    May 12, 2026Jennifer Haase, Jana Gonnermann-Müller, See Heng Yim +3Simulated PatientsPersona

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

    May 12, 2026Aanisha Bhattacharyya, Yaman Kumar Singla, Rajiv Ratn Shah +2PersonaPersonality

  31. Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Workflow Store

    May 11, 2026Roxana Geambasu, Mariana Raykova, Pierre Tholoniat +3Agentic WorkflowsArtificial Intelligence Agents

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

    May 11, 2026Mumin Jia, Yilin Chen, Divya Sharma +1SurveyPersona

  33. Intrinsic Guardrails: How Semantic Geometry of Personality Interacts with Emergent Misalignment in LLMs

    May 11, 2026Krishak Aneja, Manas Mittal, Anmol Goel +2Harmful Fine-TuningLarge Language Model Alignment

  34. Quantifying the Utility of User Simulators for Building Collaborative LLM Assistants

    May 10, 2026Joseph Suh, Ayush Raj, Minwoo Kang +1User SimulationRole-Playing Agents

  35. Exploitation Without Deception: Dark Triad Feature Steering Reveals Separable Antisocial Circuits in Language Models

    May 10, 2026Cameron Berg, Roshni LullaDeceptionLarge Language Model Bias

  36. Do Linear Probes Generalize Better in Persona Coordinates?

    May 10, 2026Prasad Mahadik, Adrians SkaparsPersonalityPersona

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

    May 9, 2026Nils A. Herrmann, Leander Girrbach, Kirill Bykov +1Large Language Model ReasoningModel Activations

  38. UserGPT Technical Report

    May 9, 2026Yunyi Xuan, Hao Yi, Fengling Mao +9ProfileInteraction History

  39. Latent Personality Alignment: Improving Harmlessness Without Mentioning Harms

    May 8, 2026Linh Le, David Williams-King, Mohamed Amine Merzouk +2Adversarial TransferabilityHarms

  40. Behavioral Determinants of Deployed AI Agents in Social Networks: A Multi-Factor Study of Personality, Model, and Guardrail Specification

    May 8, 2026Sarah Wilson, Diem Linh Dang, Usman Ali Moazzam +2Social DynamicsArtificial Intelligence Agents

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

    May 8, 2026Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Abdullah Almaatouq +76Large Language Model Post-TrainingLarge Language Model Performance

  42. PersonaGest: Personalized Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Semantic-Guided Hierarchical Motion Representation

    May 8, 2026Junchuan Zhao, Qifan Liang, Ye WangCo-Speech Gesture GenerationHand Gesture Recognition

  43. Bridging Textual Profiles and Latent User Embeddings for Personalization

    May 7, 2026Zhaoxuan Tan, Xiang Zhai, Yan Zhu +2Recommender SystemsMultimodal Recommendation

  44. VITA-QinYu: Expressive Spoken Language Model for Role-Playing and Singing

    May 7, 2026Jiacheng Xu, Heting Gao, Liufei Xie +8Singing Voice ConversionRole-Playing Agents

  45. Debiased Multimodal Personality Understanding through Dual Causal Intervention

    May 7, 2026Yangfu Zhu, Zitong Han, Nianwen Ning +4PersonalityCausal Intervention

  46. PersonaGesture: Single-Reference Co-Speech Gesture Personalization for Unseen Speakers

    May 7, 2026Xiangyue Zhang, Yiyi Cai, Kunhang Li +6Co-Speech Gesture GenerationText-To-Motion Generation

  47. PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue

    May 7, 2026Hyunbae Jeon, Jinho D. ChoiTurn-TakingFull-Duplex Dialogue

  48. The AI Legal Specialist: A Juridically Autonomous Professional Profile for AI Governance

    May 7, 2026Nicola FabianoArtificial Intelligence GovernanceCompetency Questions

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

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

  50. Reward-Decomposed Reinforcement Learning for Immersive Video Role-Playing

    May 6, 2026Miao Wang, Yuling Shi, Yijiang Li +8Role-Playing AgentsVirtual Reality

  51. Towards Self-Referential Analytic Assessment: A Profile-Based Approach to L2 Writing Evaluation with LLMs

    May 5, 2026Stefano Bannò, Kate Knill, Mark GalesAutomated Essay ScoringSelf-Assessments

  52. SAM-NER: Semantic Archetype Mediation for Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition

    May 5, 2026Ruichu Cai, Juntao Gan, Miao Mai +2Named-Entity RecognitionMediation

  53. Dynamic In-Group Persona Generation for Enhancing Human-AI Rapport

    May 5, 2026Yoonseok Oh, Inseo Jung, Jinkyu Kim +3Human-Ai InteractionPersona

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

    May 3, 2026Carlos Leon, Alexandre Rodrigues, Pedro Gamito +1PersonaSocial Reasoning

  55. EFGPP: Exploratory framework for genotype-phenotype prediction

    May 2, 2026Muhammad Muneeb, David B. AscherPhenotypesClinical Prediction

  56. Truth or Tribe: How In-group Favoritism Prioritize Facts in Persona Agents

    May 2, 2026Shijun Lei, Hongyu Wang, Yunji Liang +3Social ReasoningPersona

  57. Adaptive Querying with AI Persona Priors

    May 1, 2026Kaizheng Wang, Yuhang Wu, Assaf ZeeviElicitationPersona

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

    May 1, 2026Shuaizhi ChengPersonaPersonality

  59. Persona-Grounded Safety Evaluation of AI Companions in Multi-Turn Conversations

    Apr 30, 2026Prerna Juneja, Lika LomidzeArtificial Intelligence CompanionsSafety Evaluation

  60. Characterizing the Consistency of the Emergent Misalignment Persona

    Apr 30, 2026Anietta Weckauff, Yuchen Zhang, Maksym AndriushchenkoMisalignmentPersona