arXiv:2609.22607v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We argue here that the current dominant practice in LLM human simulation: prompting instruction-tuned assistant language models to role-play personas,...
By Minwoo Kang, T\'ea Wright, Seun Eisape, Ayush Raj, Suhong Moon, Joseph Suh, Alane Suhr, David M. Chan, John Canny
The same Persona behavior can be beneficial in one context but harmful in another, causing static Persona elicitation to perform inconsistently across tasks. We introduce the Persona Selection--Realiz...
arXiv:2609.39882v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pre-training equips large language models (LLMs) with a broad repertoire of behavioral patterns associated with roles, styles, values, and goals. Post-...
By Kemou Li, Zhuan Shi, Qizhou Wang, Fengpeng Li, Negar Rostamzadeh, Golnoosh Farnadi, Jiantao Zhou
arXiv:2608.11025v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Emergent misalignment (EM) is the phenomenon where fine-tuning a language model on a narrow task leads to harmful behavior in unrelated domains. A...
By Clemens Vetter, David Kacz\'er, Lucie Flek, Florian Mai
arXiv:2608.29798v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The same Persona behavior can be beneficial in one context but harmful in another, causing static Persona elicitation to perform inconsistently acros...
By Mohan Zhang, Chengsong You, Xiaoyu Cao, Zhen Sun, Xiaohan Jia, Junwei Zhou, Yongchao Chen
Emergent misalignment (EM) is the phenomenon where fine-tuning a language model on a narrow task leads to harmful behavior in unrelated domains. A leading mechanistic account attributes EM to persona features: latent directions acquired during pre-training that misaligned fine-tuning amplifies.