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most citedRecExplainer: Aligning Large Language Models for Explaining Recommendation Models

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan +30

Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking pract…

cs.CY2026

Can Persona-Prompted LLMs Emulate Subgroup Values? An Empirical Analysis of Generalisability and Fairness in Cultural Alignment

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Zhengyuan Liu, Xiaoyuan Yi +4

Despite their global prevalence, many Large Language Models (LLMs) are aligned to a monolithic, often Western-centric set of values. This paper investigates the more challenging ta…

cs.CL2026

Human Values Matter: Investigating How Misalignment Shapes Collective Behaviors in LLM Agent Communities

Xiangxu Zhang, Jiamin Wang, Qinlin Zhao +6

As LLMs become increasingly integrated into human society, evaluating their orientations on human values from social science has drawn growing attention. Nevertheless, it is still…

cs.AI2026

BotzoneBench: Scalable LLM Evaluation via Graded AI Anchors

Lingfeng Li, Yunlong Lu, Yuefei Zhang +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive environments requiring strategic decision-making, yet systematic evaluation of these capabilities remains chal…

cs.CL2025

MMA-ASIA: A Multilingual and Multimodal Alignment Framework for Culturally-Grounded Evaluation

Weihua Zheng, Zhengyuan Liu, Tanmoy Chakraborty +32

Large language models (LLMs) are now used worldwide, yet their multimodal understanding and reasoning often degrade outside Western, high-resource settings. We propose MMA-ASIA, a…

cs.AI2025

Counterfactual Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Value Alignment of Large Language Models

Hanze Guo, Jing Yao, Xiao Zhou +2

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into applications serving users across diverse cultures, communities and demographics, it is critical to align LLMs w…

cs.CL2025

MoVa: Towards Generalizable Classification of Human Morals and Values

Ziyu Chen, Junfei Sun, Chenxi Li +6

Identifying human morals and values embedded in language is essential to empirical studies of communication. However, researchers often face substantial difficulty navigating the d…

cs.CL2025

IROTE: Human-like Traits Elicitation of Large Language Model via In-Context Self-Reflective Optimization

Yuzhuo Bai, Shitong Duan, Muhua Huang +7

Trained on various human-authored corpora, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a certain capability of reflecting specific human-like traits (e.g., personality or values…

cs.AI2025

MoHoBench: Assessing Honesty of Multimodal Large Language Models via Unanswerable Visual Questions

Yanxu Zhu, Shitong Duan, Xiangxu Zhang +7

Recently Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved considerable advancements in vision-language tasks, yet produce potentially harmful or untrustworthy content. Despit…

cs.CL2025

Unintended Harms of Value-Aligned LLMs: Psychological and Empirical Insights

Sooyung Choi, Jaehyeok Lee, Xiaoyuan Yi +3

The application scope of Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to expand, leading to increasing interest in personalized LLMs that align with human values. However, aligning these…

cs.CY2025

AdAEM: An Adaptively and Automated Extensible Measurement of LLMs' Value Difference

Jing Yao, Shitong Duan, Xiaoyuan Yi +6

Assessing Large Language Models'(LLMs) underlying value differences enables comprehensive comparison of their misalignment, cultural adaptability, and biases. Nevertheless, current…

cs.CL2025

CAReDiO: Cultural Alignment via Representativeness and Distinctiveness Guided Data Optimization

Jing Yao, Xiaoyuan Yi, Jindong Wang +2

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are deployed across diverse regions, aligning them with pluralistic cultures is crucial for improving user engagement and mitigating cultural confli…

cs.AI2025

Research Superalignment Should Advance Now with Alternating Competence and Conformity Optimization

HyunJin Kim, Xiaoyuan Yi, Jing Yao +4

The recent leap in AI capabilities, driven by big generative models, has sparked the possibility of achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and further triggered discussion…

cs.AI2025

Value Compass Benchmarks: A Platform for Fundamental and Validated Evaluation of LLMs Values

Jing Yao, Xiaoyuan Yi, Shitong Duan +8

As Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable breakthroughs, aligning their values with humans has become imperative for their responsible development and customized applicati…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

The Road to Artificial SuperIntelligence: A Comprehensive Survey of Superalignment

HyunJin Kim, DongHyun Ryu, Xiaoyuan Yi +6

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has sparked discussion on Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), a hypothetical AI system that surpasses human intelligence. Although ASI…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Assessing Dialect Fairness and Robustness of Large Language Models in Reasoning Tasks

Fangru Lin, Shaoguang Mao, Emanuele La Malfa +7

Language is not monolithic. While benchmarks, including those designed for multiple languages, are often used as proxies to evaluate the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs)…

cs.CL2024

Elephant in the Room: Unveiling the Impact of Reward Model Quality in Alignment

Yan Liu, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xiaokang Chen +6

The demand for regulating potentially risky behaviors of large language models (LLMs) has ignited research on alignment methods. Since LLM alignment heavily relies on reward models…

cs.CL2024

CLAVE: An Adaptive Framework for Evaluating Values of LLM Generated Responses

Jing Yao, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xing Xie

The rapid progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) poses potential risks such as generating unethical content. Assessing LLMs' values can help expose their misalignment, but relies…

cs.IR2024★ 13 cited

RecAI: Leveraging Large Language Models for Next-Generation Recommender Systems

Jianxun Lian, Yuxuan Lei, Xu Huang +3

This paper introduces RecAI, a practical toolkit designed to augment or even revolutionize recommender systems with the advanced capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). RecAI…

cs.AI2024

On the Essence and Prospect: An Investigation of Alignment Approaches for Big Models

Xinpeng Wang, Shitong Duan, Xiaoyuan Yi +7

Big models have achieved revolutionary breakthroughs in the field of AI, but they might also pose potential concerns. Addressing such concerns, alignment technologies were introduc…

cs.IR2024

Aligning Language Models for Versatile Text-based Item Retrieval

Yuxuan Lei, Jianxun Lian, Jing Yao +3

This paper addresses the gap between general-purpose text embeddings and the specific demands of item retrieval tasks. We demonstrate the shortcomings of existing models in capturi…

cs.IR2023★ 7 cited

Knowledge Plugins: Enhancing Large Language Models for Domain-Specific Recommendations

Jing Yao, Wei Xu, Jianxun Lian +3

The significant progress of large language models (LLMs) provides a promising opportunity to build human-like systems for various practical applications. However, when applied to s…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Value FULCRA: Mapping Large Language Models to the Multidimensional Spectrum of Basic Human Values

Jing Yao, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xiting Wang +2

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted much attention to value alignment for their responsible development. However, how to define values in this conte…

cs.IR2023★ 24 cited

RecExplainer: Aligning Large Language Models for Explaining Recommendation Models

Yuxuan Lei, Jianxun Lian, Jing Yao +3

Recommender systems are widely used in online services, with embedding-based models being particularly popular due to their expressiveness in representing complex signals. However,…