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most citedPersona is a Double-edged Sword: Mitigating the Negative Impact of Role-playing Prompts in Zero-shot Reasoning Tasks

2 citations · 4 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

Personalized Privacy Control in LLMs via Attention Head Intervention

Junseok Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

The rise of agentic AI enables LLMs to access diverse user data, raising critical privacy concerns. Prior work on contextual privacy studies whether LLMs regulate information discl…

cs.CL2026

Are We Measuring Strategy or Phrasing? The Gap Between Surface- and Approach-Level Diversity in LLM Math Reasoning

Sangmook Lee, Minbeom Kim, Jeonghye Kim +3

Diversity in LLM mathematical reasoning is critical for exploration, but common diversity metrics mostly capture surface-level variation rather than differences in how a problem is…

cs.CL2026

How You Ask Matters! Adaptive RAG Robustness to Query Variations

Yunah Jang, Megha Sundriyal, Kyomin Jung +1

Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) promises accuracy and efficiency by dynamically triggering retrieval only when needed and is widely used in practice. However, real-wo…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Normalization: Rethinking the Partition Function as a Difficulty Scheduler for RLVR

Dohyung Kim, Minbeom Kim, Jeonghye Kim +3

Reward-maximizing RL methods have shown to be capable of enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs, but often lead to reduced generation diversity. Recent works address this issu…

cs.CL2026

Persona Switch: Mixing Distinct Perspectives in Decoding Time

Junseok Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

Role-play prompting is known to steer the behavior of language models by injecting a persona into the prompt, improving their zero-shot reasoning capabilities. However, such improv…

cs.CL2026

Reliability-Aware Adaptive Self-Consistency for Efficient Sampling in LLM Reasoning

Junseok Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyungmin Min +1

Self-Consistency improves reasoning reliability through multi-sample aggregation, but incurs substantial inference cost. Adaptive self-consistency methods mitigate this issue by ad…

cs.CL2025

Confidence-Guided Stepwise Model Routing for Cost-Efficient Reasoning

Sangmook Lee, Dohyung Kim, Hyukhun Koh +2

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) - particularly model scaling and test-time techniques - have greatly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of language models at the e…

cs.CL2025

How Training Data Shapes the Use of Parametric and In-Context Knowledge in Language Models

Minsung Kim, Dong-Kyum Kim, Jea Kwon +3

Large language models leverage both parametric knowledge acquired during pretraining and in-context knowledge provided at inference time. Crucially, when these sources conflict, mo…

cs.CL2025

Avoidance Decoding for Diverse Multi-Branch Story Generation

Kyeongman Park, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate repetitive and monotonous outputs, especially in tasks like story generation, due to limited creative diversity when given the same inpu…

cs.LG2025

Erase or Hide? Suppressing Spurious Unlearning Neurons for Robust Unlearning

Nakyeong Yang, Dong-Kyum Kim, Jea Kwon +3

Large language models trained on web-scale data can memorize private or sensitive knowledge, raising significant privacy risks. Although some unlearning methods mitigate these risk…

cs.LG2025

Rethinking Post-Unlearning Behavior of Large Vision-Language Models

Minsung Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can recognize individuals in images and disclose sensitive personal information about them, raising critical privacy concerns. Machine unlearni…

cs.CL2025

FaithUn: Toward Faithful Forgetting in Language Models by Investigating the Interconnectedness of Knowledge

Nakyeong Yang, Minsung Kim, Seunghyun Yoon +2

Various studies have attempted to remove sensitive or private knowledge from a language model to prevent its unauthorized exposure. However, prior studies have overlooked the compl…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Persona is a Double-edged Sword: Mitigating the Negative Impact of Role-playing Prompts in Zero-shot Reasoning Tasks

Junseok Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

Recent studies demonstrate that prompting a role-playing persona to an LLM improves reasoning capability. However, assigning an adequate persona is difficult since LLMs are extreme…

cs.CL2024

Unplug and Play Language Models: Decomposing Experts in Language Models at Inference Time

Nakyeong Yang, Jiwon Moon, Junseok Kim +2

Enabled by large-scale text corpora with huge parameters, pre-trained language models operate as multi-task experts using a single model architecture. However, recent studies have…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Can LLMs Recognize Toxicity? A Structured Investigation Framework and Toxicity Metric

Hyukhun Koh, Dohyung Kim, Minwoo Lee +1

In the pursuit of developing Large Language Models (LLMs) that adhere to societal standards, it is imperative to detect the toxicity in the generated text. The majority of existing…

cs.CL2023

LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generation

Kyeongman Park, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

A human author can write any length of story without losing coherence. Also, they always bring the story to a proper ending, an ability that current language models lack. In this w…

cs.AI2023

Mitigating Biases for Instruction-following Language Models via Bias Neurons Elimination

Nakyeong Yang, Taegwan Kang, Jungkyu Choi +2

Instruction-following language models often show undesirable biases. These undesirable biases may be accelerated in the real-world usage of language models, where a wide range of i…

eess.AS2023

DPP-TTS: Diversifying prosodic features of speech via determinantal point processes

Seongho Joo, Hyukhun Koh, Kyomin Jung

With the rapid advancement in deep generative models, recent neural Text-To-Speech(TTS) models have succeeded in synthesizing human-like speech. There have been some efforts to gen…