arXiv:2609.00565v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Cultural fine-tuning has become the de facto paradigm for building culture-aware large language models (LLMs), yet existing optimization exclusively...
By Jingshen Zhang, Shaoyang Xu, Wenxuan Zhang
The study introduces a World Values Survey–grounded simulation framework to test whether large language model agents can faithfully represent diverse human value systems. In about 4,000 conversations with 1,200 personas across three models, more than half of the agents failed to express their assigned value profiles from the start, and only 2–7% drifted over time. The results show systematic deviations from the intended value distributions and reveal that simulated dialogues differ from human discussions in their balance of stylistic consistency and semantic diversity.
By Farah Atif, Sougata Saha, Monojit Choudhury
arXiv:2607. 08034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are used worldwide, yet disproportionately reflect Western values, limiting their ability to represent diverse value systems.
By Dhruv Agarwal, Anya Shukla, Tanya Goyal, Aditya Vashistha
arXiv:2601. 21700v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly support culturally sensitive decision making, yet often exhibit misalignment due to skewed pretraining data and the absence of structured value representations.
By Wonduk Seo, Wonseok Choi, Junseo Koh, Juhyeon Lee, Hyunjin An, Minhyeong Yu, Jian Park, Qingshan Zhou, Seunghyun Lee, Yi Bu
Large language models (LLMs) are used worldwide, yet disproportionately reflect Western values, limiting their ability to represent diverse value systems. We introduce PLURAL, a large-scale, value-focused preference dataset grounded in the Integrated Values Survey (IVS), a nationally representative survey spanning 92 countries.
ExpertIVS is a framework that uses 14 sociological expert agents to interpret World Values Survey responses, reconstructing individual value systems in a coherent, internally consistent manner rather than simply concatenating survey answers. It introduces a multi‑agent debate mechanism to assess LLM alignment with these value profiles during dynamic interactions. Experiments on 480 individuals from 12 countries show a 90.78% value restoration fidelity and a 5.3% improvement in value generalization over baseline methods, while also demonstrating strong personality discriminability and behavioral consistency.
By Zhen Wang, Yuqi Ren, Yuehan Cui, Hongxiang Wang, Jianxiang Peng, Zhaoxia Zhang, Bingkun Zhu, Tongxuan Zhang, Dezhi Tong, Deyi Xiong
arXiv:2610.41793v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cultural value alignment requires not only model optimization but also a well-specified target grounded in real-human evidence. Yet how such targets sh...
By Jing Yao, Hyunjin Hwang, Weihua Zheng, Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Jia Wang Peh, Dylan Raharja, JinYeong Bak, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Rui Cao, Yuki Arase, Jacki O'Neill, Zhicheng Dou, Xing Xie, Xiaoyuan Yi, Furu Wei
arXiv:2607. 24782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM behavior may be conditioned by human identity in several ways: they may be asked to adapt to users, role-play populations, or forecast how people would answer value-laden questions.
By James Wedgwood, Pratiksha Thaker, Neil Kale, Virginia Smith
arXiv:2601. 04885v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) serve a global audience, alignment must transition from enforcing universal consensus to respecting cultural pluralism.
By Ao Sun, Xiaoyu Wang, Zhe Tan, Yu Li, Jiachen Zhu, Shu Su, Yuheng Jia
arXiv:2608.23541v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Does multi-agent LLM interaction help or hurt? Some work reports gains from debate (Du et al., 2024), critique loops (Chen et al., 2025), and mixture...
By Summer Eunhyung Ann, Haokun Liu, Chenhao Tan
The paper "Value-Preserving Architectures for Agentic AI Systems" discusses how architectural choices in large language model-based multi‑agent systems (MAS) can promote human‑centered values such as privacy, fairness, and safety. It introduces three value‑preserving architectural patterns: a privacy‑aware federated topology, a distributed architecture that encourages pluralism and diversity, and a guard‑agent design to detect and mitigate unfairness. Representative use cases illustrate how these patterns can be applied in real‑world scenarios, aiming to provide guidelines for building trustworthy MAS.
By Alessandro Pesare, Tommaso Dolci, Katja Hose, Emanuel Sallinger
arXiv:2402. 06359v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: One of today's most pressing societal challenges is building AI systems whose behaviour, or the behaviour it enables within communities of interacting human and artificial agents, aligns with relevant human values.
By Nardine Osman, Mark d'Inverno