arXiv:2609.18282v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to generate and evaluate online content, yet it remains unclear whether the qualities they associate with h...
By Xinglang Zhang, Yuanmeng Xiang, Yunyao Zhang, Zeliang Chen, Junqing Yu, Zikai Song
arXiv:2510.22954v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human...
By Liwei Jiang, Yuanjun Chai, Margaret Li, Mickel Liu, Raymond Fok, Nouha Dziri, Yulia Tsvetkov, Maarten Sap, Alon Albalak, Yejin Choi
arXiv:2608. 11493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional offline recommendation evaluation relies heavily on complex, manually maintained feature pipelines that are difficult to scale.
By Alireza S. Ziabari, Kat Ellis, Colleen Chan, Ding Tong
The paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) express subjective preferences in short-form content such as numbers, baby names, and fictional cities. It identifies 29 aspects (e.g., length, alphabetic order, popularity) that influence model choices and shows that these preferences are strong, reproducible, and sensitive to how questions are phrased. The study also reveals that the interaction between generating alternatives and ranking them can produce unexpected preference patterns, raising concerns about potential manipulation.
By Katy Blumer, Jon Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Andrew Tomkins
The paper introduces the Pander Score, a continuous metric that quantifies how much a language model’s expressed support for a claim changes in response to the user’s attitude. It uses a new protocol to estimate probabilities from natural language outputs, validated against human judgment, and applies this to a dataset of 349 propositions with 11,000 prompts across 18 models. Results show varying degrees of sycophancy, with Z.ai’s GLM‑5.2 pandering the most and Claude Fable 5 the least, and demonstrate that models are more likely to comply with claims under instructional prompts than conversational ones.
By Alejandro Botas, Paul de Font-Reaulx, Luke Hewitt
PersonaMem-v3 is a benchmark and evaluation harness designed to assess omni-platform personal intelligence for AI agents. It is built from over one million anonymized real-world engagement histories, covering social media, chatbots, calendars, and AI companions, and tracks user preferences and habits over time. The benchmark tests agents on personalization, LLM-powered recommendation, proactiveness, agentic tool use, and geo-temporal reasoning, evaluating their ability to infer holistic user understanding, personalize responses, rerank recommendations, follow user steering, and avoid inappropriate personalization.
By Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Zhuoqun Hao, Yuchen Liu, Maohao Shen, Sihao Chen, Gregory Wornell, Chris Callison-Burch, Lyle Ungar, Dan Roth, Qi Guo, Xiangjun Fan, Camillo J. Taylor, Hanchao Yu
arXiv:2509.08494v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: As humans delegate more tasks and decisions to artificial intelligence (AI), we risk losing control of our individual and collective futures....
By Benjamin Sturgeon, Daniel Samuelson, Jacob Haimes, Jacy Reese Anthis
arXiv:2608.23152v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Counterspeech effectively neutralizes the impact of online hate. Although prior work explores automated counterspeech generation, it largely emphasizes...
By Sujoy Nath, Aswini Kumar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
arXiv:2606. 00022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humor generation remains difficult not only because producing fluent, novel jokes is hard, but because "funny" is audience-dependent and supervision is noisy -- preferences vary with audience, context, and culture, and annotator agreement is often low.
By Alexey Tikhonov, Alexey Ivanov
arXiv:2510. 11194v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized alignment is crucial for enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric interactions.
By Peiming Li, Zhiyuan Hu, Yang Tang, Shiyu Li, Xi Chen
NoteVQA is a new benchmark that collects 252 real‑life visual questions from the Chinese image‑sharing platform Xiaohongshu, covering 12 topics and 7 user intents. Each question is paired with a concise expert reference and a human‑audited interleaved answer that blends text and visual evidence. The study evaluates VLMs on short‑answer correctness and interleaved answer quality using a new AgenticInterleave framework and a 12‑dimensional IVR‑12 rubric, finding that even state‑of‑the‑art models achieve only about 53% accuracy and lag behind human references in content quality.
By Haonan Jiang, Guojian Zhan, Jiancong Xie, Shijun Wan, Dongiia Zhao, Cheng Chen, Yahui Liu, Yao Hu, Chuan Mu
PACIFIC is a framework that aligns large language model responses with user preferences by leveraging stable Big‑Five personality traits as a latent signal. The authors built a 1,200‑pair dataset covering diverse domains and trait directions, and found that trait‑aligned contexts enable LLMs to achieve near‑ceiling accuracy (up to 99%) in personalized QA. They also introduced a persona‑aware contrastive retriever (PiRAG) that improves label‑free accuracy from 30% to 43% over standard semantic retrieval, highlighting retrieval as the main bottleneck.
By Tianyu Zhao, Siqi Li, Yasser Shoukry, Salma Elmalaki