arXiv AI

AgentWorld: Personality-Aware Reliability Evaluation for Agentic Information Retrieval

AgentWorld is a simulation framework that evaluates agentic information retrieval by incorporating diverse user personalities based on the Big Five (OCEAN) traits, stateful tool-use environments, and a pass$^k$ consistency metric with structured fault classification and partial-credit scoring. It includes a risk analyzer that uses Monte‑Carlo rollouts and advanced scoring methods to quantify trajectory brittleness and attack attribution. Experiments with conversational analytics, customer‑support agents, and adversarial stress‑testing demonstrate that personality variation reveals failure modes hidden by uniform testing, such as cross‑domain leakage, contextual drift, and significant quality gaps across personas.

arXiv AI
Jul 10

Persona Cartography: Charting Language Model Personality Traits in Weight Space

arXiv:2607. 07916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models exhibit recurring behavioural patterns -- personas -- that shape generalisation and safety, but we lack reliable tools for decomposing, measuring, and controlling them.

By Luke Baines, Anton Gonzalvez Hawthorne, Mariia Koroliuk, Irakli Shalibashvili, Cl\'ement Dumas, Konstantinos Voudouris, David Demitri Africa
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Adversarial Stress Testing of Role-Playing Language Agents using Multi-Agent Evaluation

arXiv:2608. 03166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Role-Playing Language Agents (RPLAs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes applications such as healthcare assistance, customer support, and education, where maintaining consistent personas, ethical constraints, and behavioral coherence under adversarial pressure is critical.

By Saqib Shouqi, Abdullah Nazly, Januki Wanniarachchi, Ravisha De Alwis
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

When Personality Meets Quantization: A Layer-wise MBTI Analysis of Quantized LLMs

The paper presents a systematic MBTI analysis of open‑source large language models (LLMs) across various quantization levels, including mainstream 4‑bit and extreme 2‑bit settings. It examines how personality traits emerge layer‑by‑layer through entropy and confidence‑gap dynamics, and introduces Uncertainty‑Amplified Layer Decoding (UALD) to study decoding‑induced personality drift. Findings show that personality is not static but depends on layer, quantization, prompting, and decoding, with ENFJ traits dominating, 4‑bit quantization preserving coarse structure, and 2‑bit quantization disrupting fine‑grained consistency.

By Yao Fu, Lijia Huang, Xiaomin Li, Runchao Li, Yu Yin, Kenneth A. Loparo
arXiv AI
Aug 6

MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

arXiv:2608. 04205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human evaluation of AI systems and digital products is costly, slow, and difficult to scale.

By Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou, Jintao Huang, Qianfeng Wen, Shirley Huang, Yifan Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yilan Fan, Yijun Wang, Koutian Wu, Ruoqi Gao, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Jing Tang, Brihi Joshi, Heming Liu, Zheyuan Deng, Zonglin Di, Sankalp Jajee, Jiuyao Lu, Zhiwei Zhang, Saksham Kapoor, Ishan Gupta, Yunhan Zhao, Chanwoo Park, Yucheng Lu, Bing Hu, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Hanwen Xing, Runyu Zhang, Mihir Kulshreshtha, Yuanda Xu, Qianyu Zhu, Dianzhuo Wang, Yuxin Xiao, Bowen Jiang, Yongye Su, Wenhao Chai, Zuxin Liu, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Xuandong Zhao, Ethan Ye, Shivam Patel, Jason Xie, Alex Martin Richmond, Weixiang Ding, Emre Okcular, Diya Mathew, Ziheng Wang, Rana M. Shahroz Khan, Zhejian Peng, Fang Wu, Fan Nie, Xinyang Han, Yubin Kim, Jiawei Zhang, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su, Xu Pan, Abinitha Gourabathina, Hyewon Jeong, Hemanth Neelgund Ramesh, Kumail Alhamoud, Kimia Hamidieh, Zidi Xiong, Samuel Schmidgall, Pengrui Han, Yepeng Huang, Yongheng Wang, Bowen Yang, Alex Gu, Yuchu Wang, Akshay Paruchuri, Brenna Li, Hejie Cui, Jiayuan Ding, Chaosheng Dong, Jiahao Wang, Yixuan He, Chi Wang, Pamela Bhattacharya, Tianyi Peng, Paul Pu Liang, Mitchell Gordon, Yilun Du, Marinka Zitnik, James Zou, Prasanna Tambe, Philip Torr, Emily Fox, Asu Ozdaglar, Dawn Song
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Beyond BFI: The CSI for Enhanced Reliability and Validity in Evaluating LLM Personality Traits

The paper introduces the Core Sentiment Inventory (CSI), a new personality trait evaluation tool for large language models (LLMs) that addresses reliability and validity issues found in existing methods like the Big Five Inventory (BFI). CSI is designed specifically for LLMs, supports both English and Chinese, and provides detailed psychological portraits of model behavior. Experiments show that CSI captures nuanced behavioral patterns, improves reliability, and correlates strongly (above 0.85) with real-world LLM outputs.

By Huanhuan Ma, Haisong Gong, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xing Xie, Philip S. Yu, Dongkuan Xu
arXiv AI
Jun 18

How Well Do Large Language Models Capture Human Personality?

arXiv:2606. 18263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human populations via persona prompting, often under the assumptions that richer persona descriptions improve behavioral fidelity, similarly sized attribute combinations are equally simulatable, and persona definitions generalize across tasks.

By Aanisha Bhattacharyya, Yaman Kumar Singla, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Changyou Chen, Jitendra Ajmera