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"I understand your perspective": LLM Persuasion and Sycophancy through the Lens of Communicative Action Theory
Jun 6, 2026Esra Dönmez, Agnieszka FalenskaPersuasion Large Language Model Decisions
Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart · Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems, University of Stuttgart
Learning Perspectivist Social Meaning via Demographic-Conditioned Fusion Embeddings
Jun 5, 2026Amanda Cercas Curry, Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello +1Demographics Social Media Posts
Independent Researcher · University of Calabria · IT University of Copenhagen +1
Imaginative Perception Tokens Enhance Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Jun 2, 2026Mahtab Bigverdi, Linjie Li, Weikai Huang +8Spatial Reasoning Perceptually
University of Washington · 2Allen Institute for AI · 3Microsoft +1
Gate the Filter, Not the Message: Node-Channel Mixtures for Pre-Propagation GNNs
Jun 1, 2026Zichao Yue, Zhiru ZhangGraph Neural Networks Linear Attention
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University Ithaca, New York, USA
Where to Look: Can Foundation Models Reach a Target Viewpoint Through Active Exploration?
May 31, 2026Liyang Li, Muzhi Zhu, Zhiyue Zhao +53D Foundation Models Foundation Model
Zhejiang University
Score $\times$ Decoder: A Unified View of Unsupervised Inference-Time Scaling for Hallucination Mitigation
May 30, 2026Yun-Chen Cheng, Che-Yu Lin, Cheng-Lin YangLarge Language Model Hallucination Inference-Time
CyCraft AI Lab, Taiwan
A Unifying View of Variational Generative Wasserstein Flows
May 29, 2026Paul Caucheteux, Clément Bonet, Anna KorbaWasserstein Gradient Flows Wasserstein Distance
ENSAE, CREST, IP Paris · MAP, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
A Unifying View of Anchoring via Operator-Side Tikhonov Regularization
May 29, 2026Zihao ChenMonotone Variational Inequalities Proximal Operators
UC Berkeley
Destruction is a General Strategy to Learn Generation; Diffusion's Strength is to Take it Seriously; Exploration is the Future
May 28, 2026Pierre-André NoëlDiffusion Models Probabilistic Graphical Models
ServiceNow AI Research
Ridge Regression from Poisson Resetting: A Renewal Perspective on Spectral Regularization
May 28, 2026Petar JolakoskiKernel Ridge Regression Regularization
Research Center for Computer Science and Information Technologies, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Bul. Krste Misirkov 2, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Optimal Data Acquisition for Reinforcement Learning: A Large Deviations Perspective
May 27, 2026Mingjie Hu, Jian-Qiang Hu, Enlu ZhouOffline Reinforcement Learning Convex Relaxation
School of Management, Fudan University · H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
On the Learnability of Test-Time Adaptation: A Recovery Complexity Perspective
May 27, 2026Zhi Zhou, Ming Yang, Shi-Yu Tian +3Stable Test-Time Adaptation Test-Time Adaptation
State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China
In-Context Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Gradient-Descent Perspective
May 25, 2026Mingchen Li, Jiatan Huang, Chuxu Zhang +2In-Context Learning Search-Augmented Reasoning
University of Massachusetts, Amherst · University of Connecticut · Emory University
Courtroom Analogy: New Perspective on Uncertainty-Aware Classification
May 25, 2026Taeseong Yoon, Heeyoung KimUncertainty-Aware Classification Interpretability
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.
Generalized Evidential Deep Learning: From a Bayesian Perspective
May 25, 2026Yuanye Liu, Yibo Gao, Yuanyang Chen +1Evidential Uncertainty Uncertainty-Aware Classification
School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
P1SCO: Social Dimensions from a Perspectivist Lens
May 25, 2026Amanda Cercas Curry, Gianmarco de Francisci Morales, Luca Maria AielloPersonality Perspective
Independent Researcher · CENTAI, Turin · IT University of Copenhagen
IQA-Spider: Unifying Multi-Granularity Image Quality Assessment with Reasoning, Grounding and Referring
May 23, 2026Xinge Peng, Yiting Lu, Xin Li +1Image Quality Assessment Grounding
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Why SGD is not Brownian Motion: A New Perspective on Stochastic Dynamics
May 21, 2026Igor Ignashin, Anna Radovskaya, Andrew Semenov +7Stochastic Gradient Descent Stochastic Differential Equations
Basic Research of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (BRAIn Lab) · P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences · Innopolis University
Understanding Perspectives of Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians towards Emerging Collaborative-decision Making Technologies
May 20, 2026Ray-Yuan Chung, Athena Ortega, Zixuan Xu +7Technology AI Trustworthiness
University of Washington, Seattle, WA · Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Value-Gradient Hypothesis of RL for LLMs
May 20, 2026Arip Asadulaev, Daniil Ognev, Karim Salta +1Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning Critic-Free Reinforcement Learning
MBZUAI · Independent
Axiomatizing Neural Networks via Pursuit of Subspaces
May 19, 2026Mehmet Yamac, Mert Duman, Ugur Akpinar +4Neural Network Subspace
Tampere University, Faculty of ITC, Finland · Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar · Donders Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Generalized Functional ANOVA in Closed-Form: A Unified View of Additive Explanations
May 18, 2026Baptiste Ferrere, Nicolas Bousquet, Fabrice Gamboa +1Shapley Additive Explanations Explainability
EDF R&D, SINCLAIR Lab · Université de Toulouse · Sorbonne Université +2
Constrained latent state modeling: A unifying perspective on representation learning under competing constraints
May 15, 2026Gwenolé QuellecIntermediate Latent States Latent Dynamics
LaTIM UMR 1101, Inserm, Brest, 29200, France.
When and Why Adversarial Training Improves PINNs: A Neural Tangent Kernel Perspective
May 15, 2026Yuan-dong Cao, Chi Chiu SO, Jun-Min Wang +1Parametric Physics-Informed Neural Network Adversarial Training
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China · Department of Computer Science & UCL AI Centre, University College London, UK · School of Professional Education and Executive Development The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Breakeven complexity: A new perspective on neural partial differential equation solvers
May 14, 2026Yijing Zhang, Nicholas Roberts, Tanya Marwah +1Neural Partial Differential Equation Solvers Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes
University of Wisconsin–Madison · Google DeepMind
A Unified Perspective for Learning Graph Representations Across Multi-Level Abstractions
May 12, 2026Mohamed Mahmoud Amar, Nairouz Mrabah, Mohamed Bouguessa +1Graph Representation Learning Contrastive Learning
Department of Computer Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Learning Ego-Centric BEV Representations from a Perspective-Privileged View: Cross-View Supervision for Online HD Map Construction
May 12, 2026Daniel Lengerer, Mathias Pechinger, Klaus Bogenberger +1Bird'S-Eye View Lane-Level Map Generation
Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Germany
Error whitening: Why Gauss-Newton outperforms Newton
May 11, 2026Maricela Best McKay, Nathan P. Lawrence, Brian Wetton +1Newton Whitening
University of British Columbia · University of California, Berkeley
Unpacking the Eye of the Beholder: Social Location, Identity, and the Moving Target of Political Perspectives
May 11, 2026Elena SirotkinaPolitical Discourse Audience
Center for Data Science New York University
What should post-training optimize? A test-time scaling law perspective
May 11, 2026Muheng Li, Jian Qian, Wenlong MouPost-Training Test Time
Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto† · Department of AI and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong ⋄
Beyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks
May 11, 2026Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin +6Human Annotators Disagreement
1Instituto Politécnico Nacional · University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point · University of Pretoria +3
Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
May 7, 2026Xuening Wu, Yanlan Kang, Qianya Xu +5Human-Ai Collaboration Cognitive Science
Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Pfizer China, Shanghai, China · University of California San Diego, CA, USA +4
UniVer: A Unified Perspective for Multi-step and Multi-draft Speculative Decoding
May 6, 2026Yepeng Weng, Qiao Hu, Takehisa YairiSpeculative Decoding Decoding
The University of Tokyo · 2Lenovo AI Technology Center · National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (NCMIS), AMSS, CAS
Phase Transitions in Driven Informational Systems: A Two-Field Perspective on Learning Theory and Non-Equilibrium Chemistry
May 5, 2026Truong Xuan KhanhPhase Transitions Statistical Physics
H&K Research Studio, Clevix LLC Hanoi, Vietnam
Observability Conditions and Filter Design for Visual Pose Estimation via Dual Quaternions
May 3, 2026Nicholas B. Andrews, Kristi A. MorgansenVisual-Inertial Systems Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
Autonomous Drift Learning in Data Streams: A Unified Perspective
May 2, 2026Xiaoyu Yang, En Yu, Jie LuNon-Stationarity Continual Learning
Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Rethinking LLM Ensembling from the Perspective of Mixture Models
May 1, 2026Jiale Fu, Yuchu Jiang, Peijun Wu +3Efficient Large Language Model Ensemble
Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Ministry of Education · Southeast University · Qiyuan Tech +2
A unified perspective on fine-tuning and sampling with diffusion and flow models
Apr 30, 2026Carles Domingo-Enrich, Yuanqi Du, Michael S. AlbergoGenerative Flow Networks Adjoint Matching
Microsoft Research New England · Harvard University, Kempner Institute
Investigating More Explainable and Partition-Free Compositionality Estimation for LLMs: A Rule-Generation Perspective
Apr 30, 2026Ziyao Xu, Cong Wang, Houfeng WangCompositional Generalization Compositionality
National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · OPPO AI Center
Culturally Aware GenAI Risks for Youth: Perspectives from Youth, Parents, and Teachers in a Non-Western Context
Apr 29, 2026Aljawharah Alzahrani, Tory Park, Tanusree SharmaArtificial Intelligence Safety Generative Artificial Intelligence
Pennsylvania State University
What Did They Mean? How LLMs Resolve Ambiguous Social Situations across Perspectives and Roles
Apr 27, 2026Qiming Yuan, Linyi Han, Nam Ling +1Ambiguity Complex Societies
Santa Clara University, USA
Aesthetic Perspectives in Information Systems Research: A Hermeneutic Analysis
Apr 23, 2026Angelina Chen, Rick Sullivan, Raffaele F CirielloSocio-Technical Systems Aesthetics
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia · HEC Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Exploring Spatial Intelligence from a Generative Perspective
Apr 22, 2026Muzhi Zhu, Shunyao Jiang, Huanyi Zheng +9Stable Spatial Understanding Multimodal Large Language Models
Zhejiang University, State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG · Ant Group · Zhejiang University of Technology +1
ReImagine: Rethinking Controllable High-Quality Human Video Generation via Image-First Synthesis
Apr 21, 2026Zhengwentai Sun, Keru Zheng, Chenghong Li +7Human Motion Generation Perspective
School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Future Network of Intelligence Institute, CUHK-Shenzhen, China
OptiMVMap: Offline Vectorized Map Construction via Optimal Multi-vehicle Perspectives
Apr 18, 2026Zedong Dan, Zijie Wang, Wei Zhang +6Lane-Level Map Generation Bird'S-Eye View
Sun Yat-sen University · Zhongguancun Academy · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +2
Human Cognition in Machines: A Unified Perspective of World Models
Apr 17, 2026Timothy Rupprecht, Pu Zhao, Amir Taherin +20Cognitive Science World Models
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · EmbodyX Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA · Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA +2
Implicit Neural Representations: A Signal Processing Perspective
Apr 16, 2026Dhananjaya Jayasundara, Vishal M. PatelNeural Representations Graph Signal Processing
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
Expressivity of Transformers: A Tropical Geometry Perspective
Apr 16, 2026Ye Su, Yong LiuTransformer Attention Multi-Head Attention
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101407, China · Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
The Agentification of Scientific Research: A Physicist's Perspective
Apr 16, 2026Xiao-Liang QiScientific Discovery Scientific Agents
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
A Synonymous Variational Perspective on the Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff
Apr 16, 2026Zijian Liang, Kai Niu, Changshuo Wang +2Rate-Distortion Theory Task-Aware Compression
Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Perspective on Bias in Biomedical AI: Preventing Downstream Healthcare Disparities
Apr 16, 2026Michal Rosen-Zvi, Yoav Kan-Tor, Michael Danziger +6Biomedical Disparities
IBM Research - Israel · Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University · Israel +6
Point of View: How Perspective Affects Perceived Robot Sociability
Mar 30, 2026Subham Agrawal, Aftab Akthar, Nils Dengler +1Human-Robot Interaction Robot Navigation
Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn, Germany · Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and the Center for Robotics, Bonn, Germany
To View Transform or Not to View Transform: NeRF-based Pre-training Perspective
Mar 30, 2026Hyeonjun Jeong, Juyeb Shin, Dongsuk KumNeural Radiance Fields Autonomous Driving Perception
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
EPIC-EuroParl-UdS: Information-Theoretic Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting
Mar 10, 2026Maria Kunilovskaya, Christina PollkläsenerText Corpora Linguistics
Saarland University · University of Hildesheim
Egocentric Bias in Vision-Language Models
Feb 10, 2026Maijunxian Wang, Yijiang Li, Bingyang Wang +6Egocentric Vision 3D Spatial Reasoning
Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego · School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University +6
Linguistics and Human Brain: A Perspective of Computational Neuroscience
Feb 9, 2026Fudong Zhang, Bo Chai, Yujie Wu +2Linguistics Neuroscience
Institute of AI and Robotics, College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China · Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Why GRPO Needs Normalization: A Local-Curvature Perspective on Adaptive Gradients
Jan 30, 2026Cheng Ge, Caitlyn Heqi Yin, Hao Liang +1Normalization Local Curvature
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT · Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison · Department of Informatics, King’s College London +1
Learned iterative networks: An operator learning perspective
Dec 9, 2025Andreas Hauptmann, Ozan ÖktemProbabilistic Operator Learning Image Reconstruction
Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland · Department of Computer Science, University College London, United Kingdom · Department of Mathematics, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Mitigating Hallucination in Large Language Models: A Capability-Oriented Survey on RAG, Reasoning, and Agentic Systems
Oct 28, 2025Yihan Li, Xiyuan Fu, Ghanshyam Verma +2Hallucination Mitigation LLM Reasoning Strategies
Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland · School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China +2
Performance-Efficiency Tradeoffs in Transformers: An Approximation Theory Perspective
Oct 4, 2025Ruoxi Yu, Haotian Jiang, Jingpu Cheng +3Transformer Attention Transformer Architectures
Center for Data Science, Peking University · Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore · Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore +1

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"I understand your perspective": LLM Persuasion and Sycophancy through the Lens of Communicative Action Theory

Esra Dönmez, Agnieszka Falenska

Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart · Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems, University of Stuttgart

Persuasion Large Language Model Decisions Sycophancy Human-Written Text Anthropomorphism Perspective

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Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate high-quality arguments, yet their ability to engage in nuanced and persuasive communicative actions remains largely unexplored. This work explores the persuasive potential of LLMs through the framework of Jürgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. It examines whether LLMs express illocutionary intent (i.e., pragmatic functions of language such as conveying knowledge, building trust, or signaling similarity) in ways that are comparable to human communication. We simulate online discussions between opinion holders and LLMs using conversations from the persuasive subreddit ChangeMyView. We then compare the likelihood of illocutionary intents in human-written and LLM-generated counter-arguments, specifically those that successfully changed the original poster's view. We find that all three LLMs effectively convey illocutionary intent -- often more so than humans -- potentially increasing their anthropomorphism. Further, LLMs craft sycophantic responses that closely align with the opinion holder's intent, a strategy strongly associated with opinion change. Finally, crowd-sourced workers find LLM-generated counter-arguments more agreeable and consistently prefer them over human-written ones. These findings suggest that LLMs' persuasive power extends beyond merely generating high-quality arguments. On the contrary, training LLMs with human preferences effectively tunes them to mirror human communication patterns, particularly nuanced communicative actions, potentially increasing individuals' susceptibility to their influence.

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