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most citedSurveying Attitudinal Alignment Between Large Language Models Vs. Humans Towards 17 Sustainable Development Goals

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27 papers

cs.CR2026

CyberArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Live Symmetric Attack-and-Defense Combat

Bangya Liu, Jianhong Tu, Yueyang Pan +18

AI agents are demonstrating increasingly strong offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities in the real world. Current benchmarks mostly evaluate agents in isolation against…

cs.CL2026

On the Behavioral Traits of LLM Agents

Haokai Zhao, Jie Gao, Yunze Xiao +5

Users increasingly describe different AI agents as distinct colleagues to work with. AI personality research aims to quantify such impressions by attributing human- like "traits" t…

cs.CL2026

MicroVerse: An Instrument for Measuring Self-Authored Identity Drift in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Language-Model Simulations

Sky Ng, Brihi Joshi, Ishan Gupta +47

Long-horizon, multi-agent language model (LM) simulations are widely proposed for studying social behavior, yet instruments to measure whether persona-conditioned agents maintain i…

cs.HC2026

PersonaEval: Persona-Based User Simulation for Evaluating Interactive Applications

Yifan Simon Liu, Qianfeng Wen, Yilan Fan +40

Real user studies are important for understanding how people interact with systems under test or already deployed. In practice, however, they are often costly, time-consuming, and…

cs.CL2026

Group Alignment-Induced Sycophancy: A Two-Sided Evaluation of Steerable Pluralistic Alignment

Haokai Zhao, Yunze Xiao, Weihao Xuan +3

Group alignment adapts a language model to a demographic group to produce responses that reflect the group's opinions, values, and preferences. Sycophancy, a well-documented by-pro…

cs.HC2026

ExpressionCueLens: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Human-AI Companion Conversations on Social Media

Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Yunze Xiao, Lionel Z. Wang +2

LLM-based AI companion agents are increasingly being perceived not only as tools but also as social companions. On social media, people recount conversations where these agents com…

cs.AI2026

PACE: A Proxy for Agentic Capability Evaluation

Yueqi Song, Lintang Sutawika, Jiarui Liu +8

Evaluating LLM agents on benchmarks like SWE-Bench and GAIA can be expensive, time-consuming, and requires complex infrastructure. A single evaluation can cost thousands of dollars…

cs.AI2026

Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark

Sheng Jin, Minghao Liu, Yunze Xiao +24

Knowledge benchmarks for LLMs face three issues: scaling-driven designs that do not operationalize disciplinary representativeness; flat-payment annotation that permits lazy consen…

cs.CL2026

Dr. DocBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Expert-Level and Difficult Document Parsing

Minglai Yang, Xinyan Velocity Yu, Pengyuan Li +22

Document parsing and recognition are fundamental capabilities for vision-language models (VLMs) and document processing systems. However, existing Optical Character Recognition (OC…

cs.CL2026

Is LLM's Moral Decision Compositional?

Weijia Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Yunze Xiao +1

Moral evaluations of language models typically infer a model's values from its choices between single acts, yet in everyday life a person is judged on their history of good and bad…

cs.CL2026

The Chameleon's Limit: Investigating Persona Collapse and Homogenization in Large Language Models

Yunze Xiao, Vivienne J. Zhang, Chenghao Yang +3

Large language models (LLMs) have powered multi-agent simulations such as survey respondents or application users. However, LLMs lack the population-level diversity required by the…

cs.AI2026

Superminds Test: Actively Evaluating Collective Intelligence of Agent Society via Probing Agents

Xirui Li, Ming Li, Yunze Xiao +4

Collective intelligence refers to the ability of a group to achieve outcomes beyond what any individual member can accomplish alone. As large language model agents scale to populat…

cs.CR2026

Say Something Else: Rethinking Contextual Privacy as Information Sufficiency

Yunze Xiao, Wenkai Li, Xiaoyuan Wu +3

LLM agents increasingly draft messages on behalf of users, yet users routinely overshare sensitive information and disagree on what counts as private. Existing systems support only…

cs.CL2026

Towards Valid Student Simulation with Large Language Models

Zhihao Yuan, Yunze Xiao, Ming Li +4

This paper presents a conceptual and methodological framework for large language model (LLM) based student simulation in educational settings. The authors identify a core failure m…

cs.AI2026

Sentipolis: Emotion-Aware Agents for Social Simulations

Chiyuan Fu, Lyuhao Chen, Yunze Xiao +3

LLM agents are increasingly used for social simulation, yet emotion is often treated as a transient cue, causing emotional amnesia and weak long-horizon continuity. We present Sent…

cs.CL2025

Hire Your Anthropologist! Rethinking Culture Benchmarks Through an Anthropological Lens

Mai AlKhamissi, Yunze Xiao, Badr AlKhamissi +1

Cultural evaluation of large language models has become increasingly important, yet current benchmarks often reduce culture to static facts or homogeneous values. This view conflic…

cs.CL2025

Humanizing Machines: Rethinking LLM Anthropomorphism Through a Multi-Level Framework of Design

Yunze Xiao, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Jiarui Liu +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit \textbf{anthropomorphism} characteristics -- human-like qualities portrayed across their outlook, language, behavior, and reasonin…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Synthetic Socratic Debates: Examining Persona Effects on Moral Decision and Persuasion Dynamics

Jiarui Liu, Yueqi Song, Yunze Xiao +5

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in morally sensitive domains, it is crucial to understand how persona traits affect their moral reasoning and persuasive behav…

cs.AI2025

Embracing Contradiction: Theoretical Inconsistency Will Not Impede the Road of Building Responsible AI Systems

Gordon Dai, Yunze Xiao

This position paper argues that the theoretical inconsistency often observed among Responsible AI (RAI) metrics, such as differing fairness definitions or tradeoffs between accurac…

cs.CL2025

Understanding Aha Moments: from External Observations to Internal Mechanisms

Shu Yang, Junchao Wu, Xin Chen +4

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), capable of reasoning through complex problems, have become crucial for tasks like programming, mathematics, and commonsense reasoning. However, a key…

cs.CL2025

MMLU-ProX: A Multilingual Benchmark for Advanced Large Language Model Evaluation

Weihao Xuan, Rui Yang, Heli Qi +29

Existing large language model (LLM) evaluation benchmarks primarily focus on English, while current multilingual tasks lack parallel questions that specifically assess cross-lingui…

cs.CL2024

ToxiCloakCN: Evaluating Robustness of Offensive Language Detection in Chinese with Cloaking Perturbations

Yunze Xiao, Yujia Hu, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo +1

Detecting hate speech and offensive language is essential for maintaining a safe and respectful digital environment. This study examines the limitations of state-of-the-art large l…

cs.CY2024★ 7 cited

Surveying Attitudinal Alignment Between Large Language Models Vs. Humans Towards 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Qingyang Wu, Ying Xu, Tingsong Xiao +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as potent tools for advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the attitudinal disparities between LLMs…

cs.CL2024

Chinese Offensive Language Detection:Current Status and Future Directions

Yunze Xiao, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani

Despite the considerable efforts being made to monitor and regulate user-generated content on social media platforms, the pervasiveness of offensive language, such as hate speech o…