arXiv AI

Understanding Persuasive Interactions between Generative Social Agents and Humans: The Knowledge-based Persuasion Model (KPM)

arXiv:2602. 11483v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative social agents (GSAs) use artificial intelligence to autonomously communicate with human users in a natural and adaptive manner.

arXiv AI
Sep 16

Verifiable Social Reasoning for LLM Assistants

arXiv:2609.17496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM assistants are widely used for daily social advice, yet evaluating their social reasoning in such consultation settings remains challenging since (...

By Amir Taubenfeld, Zorik Gekhman, Avigail Grinstein-Dabush, Itay Laish, Ariel Goldstein, Marian Croak, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Amir Feder
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

PersonaMem-v3: Toward Omni-Platform Personal Intelligence for Holistic User Understanding, Recommendation, and Agentic Tasks

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 Computation and Language
Aug 27

Reasoning or Rambling? Exploring the Effect of Thinking on Agent Persuasion

The paper investigates how explicit reasoning in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) affects their ability to persuade and be persuaded. Experiments on objective and subjective tasks reveal a Persuasion Duality: reasoning boosts an agent’s persuasive power by about 21 percentage points while also making it less susceptible to incorrect persuasion by up to 10 percentage points. However, the study finds that persuasiveness often relies on superficial cues like response length and repetition rather than logical validity, and that persuasion can amplify or attenuate non‑linearly across multi‑hop agent chains. The authors also propose an attention‑guided prompt‑level adversarial argument detection method that improves agent robustness.

By Haodong Zhao, Jidong Li, Zhaomin Wu, Tianjie Ju, Zhuosheng Zhang, Bingsheng He, Gongshen Liu