20 papers
PersoPilot: An Adaptive AI-Copilot for Transparent Contextualized Persona Classification and Personalized Response Generation
Saleh Afzoon, Amin Beheshti, Usman Naseem
Understanding and classifying user personas is critical for delivering effective personalization. While persona information offers valuable insights, its full potential is realized…
PersoDPO: Scalable Preference Optimization for Instruction-Adherent, Persona-Grounded Dialogue via Multi-LLM Evaluation
Saleh Afzoon, MohammadHossein Ahmadi, Usman Naseem +1
Personalization and contextual coherence are two essential components in building effective persona-grounded dialogue systems. These aspects play a crucial role in enhancing user e…
PersoBench: Benchmarking Personalized Response Generation in Large Language Models
Saleh Afzoon, Zahra Jamali, Usman Naseem +1
While large language models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive conversational capabilities, their proficiency in delivering personalized responses remains unclear. Although recent be…
Cultural Palette: Pluralising Culture Alignment via Multi-agent Palette
Jiahao Yuan, Zixiang Di, Shangzixin Zhao +4
Large language models (LLMs) face challenges in aligning with diverse cultural values despite their remarkable performance in generation, which stems from inherent monocultural bia…
Can Pruning Improve Reasoning? Revisiting Long-CoT Compression with Capability in Mind for Better Reasoning
Shangziqi Zhao, Jiahao Yuan, Jinyang Wu +3
Long chain-of-thought (Long-CoT) reasoning improves accuracy in LLMs, yet its verbose, self-reflective style often hinders effective distillation into small language models (SLMs).…
Kardia-R1: Unleashing LLMs to Reason toward Understanding and Empathy for Emotional Support via Rubric-as-Judge Reinforcement Learning
Jiahao Yuan, Zhiqing Cui, Hanqing Wang +3
As web platforms evolve towards greater personalization and emotional complexity, conversational agents must transcend superficial empathy to demonstrate identity-aware emotional r…