2 papers
cs.AI2026
EMPA: Evaluating Persona-Aligned Empathy as a Process
Shiya Zhang, Yuhan Zhan, Ruixi Su +4
Evaluating persona-aligned empathy in LLM-based dialogue agents remains challenging. User states are latent, feedback is sparse and difficult to verify in situ, and seemingly suppo…
cs.AI2025
Echo-N1: Affective RL Frontier
Naifan Zhang, Ruihan Sun, Ruixi Su +9
The LLM field has spent a year perfecting RL for tasks machines already excel at, math, code, and deterministic reasoning, while completely sidestepping the domain that actually de…