10 papers
Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events
Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4
Personality-conditioned LLM agents (PC-Agents) are increasingly used in emotional support, social simulation, and role-playing, motivating the development of lifelong agents that r…
MIThinker: A Plug-and-Play Policy-Optimized Thinker For Motivational Interviewing Counseling
Yizhe Yang, Palakorn Achananuparp, Heyan Huang +2
Reasoning large language models (LLMs) have recently made much progress in complex problem-solving, leveraging internal reasoning (or thought) to guide their solution generation. H…
DialToM: A Theory of Mind Benchmark for Forecasting State-Driven Dialogue Trajectories
Neemesh Yadav, Palakorn Achananuparp, Jing Jiang +1
We introduce DialToM, an annotated Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmark built from naturalistic human-human dialogues using a multiple-choice evaluation framework. Concurrent with recent…
VerifyMAS: Hypothesis Verification for Failure Attribution in LLM Multi-Agent Systems
Hezhe Qiao, Hanghang Tong, Ee-Peng Lim +2
Large language model-driven multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS) excel at complex tasks, yet unreliable agents remain a key bottleneck to system-level reliability. Automatic failure attri…
MHSafeEval: Role-Aware Interaction-Level Evaluation of Mental Health Safety in Large Language Models
Suhyun Lee, Palakorn Achananuparp, Neemesh Yadav +2
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly explored as scalable tools for mental health counseling, yet evaluating their safety remains challenging due to the interactional and…
Leveraging Large Language Models for Career Mobility Analysis: A Study of Gender, Race, and Job Change Using U.S. Online Resume Profiles
Palakorn Achananuparp, Ye Xu, Yao Lu +2
We present a large-scale analysis of career mobility of college-educated U.S. workers using online resume profiles to investigate how gender, race, and job change options are assoc…