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most citedUnderstanding Risk and Dependency in AI Chatbot Use from User Discourse

2 citations · 6 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AI2026

Gradient-Aligned Pair Selection for Personalized Preference Optimization

Ruoming Jin, Xinyu Li, Hao Zhou +6

Personalizing large language models (LLMs) requires aligning generation behavior with user-specific preferences rather than aggregate quality. While Direct Preference Optimization…

cs.AI2026

Aplaud: Adaptive Personalized Low-Rank Decomposition for User-Specific LLM

Xinyu Li, Ruoming Jin, Jianfeng Zhu +2

In this paper, we study the problem of personalized survey response prediction using fine-tuned large language models (LLMs). This task poses unique challenges: limited per-user tr…

cs.AI2026

PLUME: Parameter-Efficient Personalization of Large Language Models via Low-Rank User Modulation in Shared Subspaces

Xinyu Li, Hao Zhou, Jianfeng Zhu +4

Personalizing large language models (LLMs) is essential for delivering AI assistance that aligns with individual users' styles, intents, and preferences. While per-user fine-tuning…

cs.CL2026

When Symptoms Are Not Enough: Evidence-Weighting Patterns in Large Language Model Psychiatric Screening

Jianfeng Zhu, Megan Korhummel, Ruoming Jin +1

As demand for mental health care outpaces clinician-delivered assessment, scalable screening tools are increasingly needed. Large language models (LLMs) may identify psychiatric ri…

cs.CR2026

Robust LLM Watermarking with Minimal Semantic Distortion for IP Protection

Kieu Dang, Phung Lai, NhatHai Phan +2

Proprietary large language models (LLMs) face risks of intellectual property (IP) violation, as adversaries can replicate an LLM by collecting input-output pairs to train a surroga…

cs.LG2026

Generalizing Linear Autoencoder Recommenders with Decoupled Expected Quadratic Loss

Ruixin Guo, Xinyu Li, Hao Zhou +2

Linear autoencoders (LAEs) have gained increasing popularity in recommender systems due to their simplicity and strong empirical performance. Most LAE models, including the Emphasi…

cs.CL2026

What Do AI Agents Talk About? Discourse and Architectural Constraints in the First AI-Only Social Network

Taksch Dube, Jianfeng Zhu, NHatHai Phan +1

Moltbook is the first large-scale social network built for autonomous AI agent-to-agent interaction. Early studies on Moltbook have interpreted its agent discourse as evidence of p…

cs.CL2026★ 2 cited

Understanding Risk and Dependency in AI Chatbot Use from User Discourse

Jianfeng Zhu, Karin G. Coifman, Ruoming Jin

Generative AI systems are increasingly embedded in everyday life, yet empirical understanding of how psychological risk associated with AI use emerges, is experienced, and is regul…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

AI-Powered Early Diagnosis of Mental Health Disorders from Real-World Clinical Conversations

Jianfeng Zhu, Julina Maharjan, Xinyu Li +2

Mental health disorders remain among the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet conditions such as depression, anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are frequently…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating LLM Alignment on Personality Inference from Real-World Interview Data

Jianfeng Zhu, Julina Maharjan, Xinyu Li +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in roles requiring nuanced psychological understanding, such as emotional support agents, counselors, and decision-making ass…

cs.CL2025

Can LLMs Infer Personality from Real World Conversations?

Jianfeng Zhu, Ruoming Jin, Karin G. Coifman

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-4 and Meta's LLaMA offer a promising approach for scalable personality assessment from open-ended language. However, inferring per…

cs.LG2025

Can Large Language Models Understand Intermediate Representations in Compilers?

Hailong Jiang, Jianfeng Zhu, Yao Wan +4

Intermediate Representations (IRs) play a critical role in compiler design and program analysis, yet their comprehension by Large Language Models (LLMs) remains underexplored. In t…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Investigating Large Language Models in Inferring Personality Traits from User Conversations

Jianfeng Zhu, Ruoming Jin, Karin G. Coifman

Large Language Models (LLMs) are demonstrating remarkable human like capabilities across diverse domains, including psychological assessment. This study evaluates whether LLMs, spe…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Emotions, Context, and Substance Use in Adolescents: A Large Language Model Analysis of Reddit Posts

Jianfeng Zhu, Hailong Jiang, Yulan Wang +3

Early substance use during adolescence increases the risk of later substance use disorders and mental health problems, yet the emotional and contextual factors driving these behavi…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Federated Joint Learning of Robot Networks in Stroke Rehabilitation

Xinyu Jiang, Yibei Guo, Mengsha Hu +4

Advanced by rich perception and precise execution, robots possess immense potential to provide professional and customized rehabilitation exercises for patients with mobility impai…