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7 papers

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.LG2025

ExBigBang: A Dynamic Approach for Explainable Persona Classification through Contextualized Hybrid Transformer Analysis

Saleh Afzoon, Amin Beheshti, Nabi Rezvani +7

In user-centric design, persona development plays a vital role in understanding user behaviour, capturing needs, segmenting audiences, and guiding design decisions. However, the gr…

cs.AI2025

Modeling and Optimizing User Preferences in AI Copilots: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy

Saleh Afzoon, Zahra Jahanandish, Phuong Thao Huynh +2

AI copilots represent a new generation of AI-powered systems designed to assist users, particularly knowledge workers and developers, in complex, context-rich tasks. As these syste…

cs.CL2025

VITAL: A New Dataset for Benchmarking Pluralistic Alignment in Healthcare

Anudeex Shetty, Amin Beheshti, Mark Dras +1

Alignment techniques have become central to ensuring that Large Language Models (LLMs) generate outputs consistent with human values. However, existing alignment paradigms often mo…