arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3
$\Psi$-Bench: Evaluating Persona-Sensitive Influencing in Persuasive Dialogues
arXiv:2606. 02754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalization is a crucial capability of modern language agents.
Contextualized Counterspeech Can Be More Persuasive Than Generic Counterspeech
arXiv:2607. 26236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-generated counterspeech offers a scalable and effective strategy to mitigate online toxicity by promoting more constructive dialogue.
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arXiv AI
Sep 1
Evaluating the Hidden Costs of Personalization in Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.28833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large language models (LLMs) incorporate user personalization signals to improve usability and helpfulness, they increasingly shift from providin...
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1
Evaluating the Capabilities of LLMs for Persuasive Dialogue
The paper introduces “Persuasio”, a multi‑agent dialogue platform that uses a formal argumentation theory to adjudicate winners in free‑text debates. Using this system, the authors generated 192 debates on a UK political topic involving humans and large language models (LLMs), and evaluated 22 interlocutors through automated adjudication and 9,702 crowdsourced pairwise judgments across 1,386 annotation instances. The results show a consistent decoupling between subjective persuasiveness—where LLMs dominate—and formal argumentative strength—where humans remain competitive, with multi‑agent and retrieval‑augmented variants widening this gap.
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25
Counter with Evidence! A Multi-Agent Memory Efficient Reasoning Framework for Hate Category Informed Counterspeech Generation
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...
arXiv AI
Sep 24
Safety Nudges: User-Facing Interventions for Real-Time AI Risk Awareness
The paper introduces Safety Nudges, a browser-based tool that displays lightweight, in situ flags when a conversational AI exhibits risky behavior such as hallucination or overconfidence. In a two‑week field study with 45 frequent chatbot users, participants reported that the nudges were useful, clear, and minimally disruptive, and most felt more aware of potential AI harms. However, increased awareness did not automatically translate into measurable changes in user behavior, underscoring the need for relevance, calibration, and user control in nudge design.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26
GRAG: Generic Response-Augmented Generation Framework for Personalized Conversational Systems
arXiv:2606. 21097v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying highly capable personalized conversational agents in resource-constrained or privacy-sensitive environments remains a significant challenge.
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.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
How Human Feedback Shapes AI-generated Community Notes
arXiv:2606. 30905v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Community Notes, a bridging-based crowd-sourced fact-checking system, has emerged as a new mechanism for moderating misleading information on social media and has been adopted by major platforms including X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok.
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 16
Towards Detecting AI-Assisted Responses in Online Surveys
The paper introduces ASURRE, a benchmark dataset for detecting AI‑assisted responses in online surveys. It evaluates how different LLM usage strategies—ranging from full generation to persona‑grounded agentic completion—affect the performance of existing machine‑generated text detectors. The study finds that while naive AI usage is easily detected, more sophisticated persona‑grounded agents approach chance performance, yet still leave identifiable behavioural traces that can be aggregated to improve detection.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
Mecha-nudges for Machines
arXiv:2603. 23433v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents are becoming active decision-makers on the Internet.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
"I understand your perspective": LLM Persuasion and Sycophancy through the Lens of Communicative Action Theory
arXiv:2606. 08076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate high-quality arguments, yet their ability to engage in nuanced and persuasive communicative actions remains largely unexplored.
arXiv AI
Jun 8
Re-Centering Humans in LLM Personalization
arXiv:2606. 06614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite growing interest, most evaluations of large language models' (LLMs') personalization abilities have relied on synthetic data.