arXiv:2607. 20426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LLM hallucination mitigation methods, including prompt engineering and model optimization, either hardly alter models'internal knowledge or have poor cross-domain generalization.
By Xinyue Fang, Zhiliang Tian, Zhen Huang, Ziyi Pan, Zhihua Wen, Xi Wang, Quntian Fang, Dongsheng Li
The study investigates how the visibility of speaker biographies to interlocutors during training, inference, and evaluation affects persona-based dialogue generation. It finds that training-time visibility is the primary factor determining whether models express persona traits or simply copy biographical text, and that providing interlocutor-biography visibility during training reduces target-biography copying. Additionally, asymmetric disclosure—where only the interlocutor sees the target biography—leads to more frequent leakage of target content into interlocutor turns, making such dialogues easier for a judge to identify.
By Daniela Occhipinti, Malvina Nissim, Marco Guerini
MIRAGE is a controlled study that examines how multimodal personal agents use historical evidence when conversation state changes. The study keeps evidence, questions, and scoring constant while varying only the conversation state, then checks if agents can determine answerability, recover the correct source, and answer from it. Results across seven multimodal backbones show distinct failure regimes before and after compaction, heavy reliance on context continuity by open-weight models, and mixed effects of retrieval pressure on source attribution.
By Yu Liu, Wenxiao Zhang, Cheng Hu, Cong Cao, Fangfang Yuan, Xinyu Wang, Jin B. Hong, Yanbing Liu
arXiv:2605. 09159v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work shows that large language models (LLMs) encode behavioral traits ("personas") as linear directions in activation space, often called "persona vectors".
By Nils A. Herrmann, Leander Girrbach, Kirill Bykov, Zeynep Akata
arXiv:2607. 15883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are broadly capable, yet in sustained one-to-one conversation they still read as flat: competent, responsive, and somehow not quite the presence of a mind.
By Sebastian Cochinescu
arXiv:2502. 15543v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) integrated with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have improved factuality by grounding outputs in external evidence.
By Pengcheng Huang, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Haiyan Zhao, Xiaoyuan Yi, Hao Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Tong Xiao, Ge Yu, Chenyan Xiong
The paper examines how skill representations influence selection in a multimodal video agent harness called Tinycloud. It compares two types of skill representations—tool-skills and workflow-skills—and two prompt surfaces—full inlined bodies and one-line listings—across three exposure regimes. The study finds that full autoload exposure consistently selects the correct skill, while partial exposure can cause lexical competition that misroutes tasks, highlighting that in-prompt exposure is not always beneficial.
By Kevin Dela Rosa
arXiv:2602. 04291v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-expert systems, where multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) collaborate to solve complex tasks, are increasingly adopted for high-performance reasoning and generation.
By Sudipto Ghosh, Sujoy Nath, Sunny Manchanda, Tanmoy Chakraborty
arXiv:2609.22607v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We argue here that the current dominant practice in LLM human simulation: prompting instruction-tuned assistant language models to role-play personas,...
By Minwoo Kang, T\'ea Wright, Seun Eisape, Ayush Raj, Suhong Moon, Joseph Suh, Alane Suhr, David M. Chan, John Canny
arXiv:2606. 29613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have recently been extended with role-based mechanisms for interpretability.
By Yeji Kim, Housam Babiker, Mi-Young Kim, Randy Goebel
The paper investigates how the way users phrase advice‑seeking requests—termed articulation—creates stable, measurable patterns distinct from the topics of the requests. By analyzing 16,447 prompts from public chat corpora, the authors identify a small set of latent articulation factors that consistently appear across datasets and splits. One key finding is a long‑form, information‑poor style that leads language models to give shorter, vaguer answers without seeking clarification, a pattern that persists across topics and prompt lengths.
By Juneha Baek, Suhyeon Lee, Donghyuk Shin
arXiv:2606. 12747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-relevant studies of language models, including alignment and jailbreaking evaluations and AI control protocols, often rely on prefilling model outputs.
By Andy Wang, Parv Mahajan, David Demitri Africa, Alexandra Souly, Jordan Taylor, Robert Kirk