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most citedMust Read: A Comprehensive Survey of Computational Persuasion

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors

Shuhaib Mehri, Philippe Laban, Sumuk Shashidhar +4

As user simulators are increasingly used for interactive training and evaluation of AI assistants, it is essential that they represent the diverse behaviors of real users. While ex…

cs.CL2026

PSI-Bench: Towards Clinically Grounded and Interpretable Evaluation of Depression Patient Simulators

Nguyen Khoi Hoang, Shuhaib Mehri, Tse-An Hsu +4

Patient simulators are gaining traction in mental health training by providing scalable exposure to complex and sensitive patient interactions. Simulating depressed patients is par…

cs.CL2026

User Preference Modeling for Conversational LLM Agents: Weak Rewards from Retrieval-Augmented Interaction

Yuren Hao, Shuhaib Mehri, ChengXiang Zhai +1

Large language models are increasingly used as personal assistants, yet most lack a persistent user model, forcing users to repeatedly restate preferences across sessions. We propo…

cs.CL2026

Sparking Scientific Creativity via LLM-Driven Interdisciplinary Inspiration

Priyanka Kargupta, Shuhaib Mehri, Dilek Hakkani-Tur +1

Despite interdisciplinary research leading to larger and longer-term impact, most work remains confined to single-domain academic silos. Recent AI-based approaches to scientific di…

cs.AI2026

MultiSessionCollab: Learning User Preferences with Memory to Improve Long-Term Collaboration

Shuhaib Mehri, Priyanka Kargupta, Tal August +1

As conversational agents accumulate experience collaborating with users, adapting to user preferences is essential for fostering long-term relationships and improving collaboration…

cs.CL2025

Goal Alignment in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational AI

Shuhaib Mehri, Xiaocheng Yang, Takyoung Kim +3

User simulators are essential to conversational AI, enabling scalable agent development and evaluation through simulated interactions. While current Large Language Models (LLMs) ha…