arXiv Computation and Language

Investigating Assistant Bias in LLM User Simulators Using a Role Vector

arXiv AI
Jun 4

Unlocking Proactivity in Task-Oriented Dialogue

arXiv:2605. 22240v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proactive task-oriented dialogue (TOD), such as outbound sales, demands a persuasive agent that actively probes the user's concerns and steers the conversation toward acceptance within a bounded number of turns.

By Azure Zhang, Ning Gao, Yuqin Dai, Ruiyuan Wu, Jinpeng Wang, Rena Wei Gao, Bingdong Tan, Shuzheng Gao, Zongjie Li, Chaozheng Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 19

KnowSim: Evaluating Information Calibration in LLM Assistants with User Simulators that Learn

KnowSim introduces an evaluation framework that uses a user simulator with explicit knowledge states to assess how well large language models calibrate information to users. The simulator represents knowledge as a graph of Information Units with prerequisite relationships and updates these states based on learning theory. KnowSim computes Knowledge Gain, Delivery Calibration, and Cognitive Overload metrics, and its rankings align with human judgments, outperforming baseline simulators and revealing model performance differences across user knowledge levels.

By Yoonjoo Lee, Hyoungwook Jin, Tae Soo Kim, Shaoyang Zhang, Philippe Laban, Q. Vera Liao
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