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cs.CL2026

Pretrained Persona Mixture Models and Tandem Models for Human Simulation

Minwoo Kang, Téa Wright, Seun Eisape +6

We argue here that the current dominant practice in LLM human simulation: prompting instruction-tuned assistant language models to role-play personas, is inaccurate and produces st…

cs.AI2026

INSIDE the Student's Mind: Jointly Modeling Latent Reasoning and Action in LLM Student Simulators

Rose Niousha, Minwoo Kang, Narges Norouzi

Large Language Model (LLM)-based simulators often reproduce observable actions but fail to capture the underlying reasoning behind them. In education, where student simulation is i…

cs.LG2026

Speculative Interaction Agents: Building Real-Time Agents with Asynchronous I/O and Speculative Tool Calling

Coleman Hooper, Minwoo Kang, Suhong Moon +7

There is a growing demand for agentic AI technologies for a range of downstream applications like customer service and personal assistants. For applications where the agent needs t…

cs.CL2026

Quantifying the Utility of User Simulators for Building Collaborative LLM Assistants

Joseph Suh, Ayush Raj, Minwoo Kang +1

User simulators are increasingly leveraged to build interactive AI assistants, yet how to measure the quality of these simulators remains an open question. In this work, we show ho…

cs.HC2026

Dynamic In-Group Persona Generation for Enhancing Human-AI Rapport

Yoonseok Oh, Inseo Jung, Jinkyu Kim +3

LLM-based chatbots are increasingly applied in interpersonal domains such as counseling and peer support, where establishing human-AI rapport is crucial yet remains challenging. In…

cs.CL2026

Identity, Cooperation and Framing Effects within Groups of Real and Simulated Humans

Suhong Moon, Minwoo Kang, Joseph Suh +2

Humans act via a nuanced process that depends both on rational deliberation and also on identity and contextual factors. In this work, we study how large language models (LLMs) can…