arXiv AI

Encoded Early, Used Late: Where Transformers Begin to Act on an Inferred Partner's Expertise

arXiv AI
Jul 24

Knowledge Injection Exists in MoE? Exploring Expert-Aware Contrast Decoding in MoE for Mitigating LLMs'Hallucinations

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
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

Stranger, Fan, or Peer? A Systematic Study on the Role of Interlocutor in Persona-Based Dialogue Generation

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
arXiv AI
Sep 17

MIRAGE: How Conversation State Shapes Historical Evidence Use in Multimodal Personal Agents

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 AI
Aug 24

Representation Affects Retrieval: A Case Study of Skill Discovery and Routing in a Multimodal Agent Harness

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 Computation and Language
Sep 1

How You Ask Shapes What You Get: A Theory-Seeded Measurement of Articulation in Advice-Seeking LLM Conversations

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