arXiv AI

Identifying High-Confidence Social Biases in LLMs for Trustworthy Conversational Tutoring Agents

arXiv:2606. 01584v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational tutoring agents have been shown to improve learning engagement and student outcomes, and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in these systems to provide scalable, personalized feedback.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 12

Learning to Persuade Exposes How Easily LLMs Abandon Correct Beliefs

Persuasion is a core dynamic of natural language communication, shaping how large language models (LLMs) update beliefs, resolve disagreements, and reach decisions. As LLMs increasingly debate, advise, and think collaboratively with humans and each other, resistance to harmful persuasion becomes a core requirement for reliable behavior.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 30

Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action

Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks for Large Language Models (LLMs) typically rely on passive question-answering formats, but the deployment of LLMs in increasingly agentic and autonomous forms demands new evaluations. In this paper we evaluate an agent's ability to induce specific belief states in other agents by taking actions rather than using conversational persuasion, a capability we call Non-Conversational Planning ToM (NCP-ToM).

arXiv AI
Jul 31

Facial-Expression-Aware Prompting for Empathetic LLM Tutoring

arXiv:2604. 15336v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) enable increasingly capable tutoring-style conversational agents, yet effective tutoring requires sensitivity to learners' affective and cognitive states beyond text alone.

By Shuangquan Feng, Laura Fleig, Ruisen Tu, Philip Chi, Edmund Bu, Melinda Ozel, Junhua Ma, Teng Fei, Virginia R. de Sa