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5 papers

cs.LG2026

LLMs Get Lost in Evolving User Intent

Jihoon Tack, Philippe Laban, Jennifer Neville

As LLMs become more capable, they are increasingly deployed as collaborative agents, taking on user-delegated tasks through iterative interaction. Yet genuine interaction is inhere…

cs.AI2026

Response-Aware User Memory Selection for LLM Personalization

Jillian Fisher, Jennifer Neville, Chan Young Park

A common approach to personalization in large language models (LLMs) is to incorporate a subset of the user memory into the prompt at inference time to guide the model's generation…

cs.CL2026

Flipping the Dialogue: Training and Evaluating User Language Models

Tarek Naous, Philippe Laban, Wei Xu +1

Conversations with LMs involve two participants: a human user leading the conversation, and an LM assistant responding to the user's request. To satisfy this specific role, LMs are…

cs.CL2026

ConvApparel: A Benchmark Dataset and Validation Framework for User Simulators in Conversational Recommenders

Ofer Meshi, Krisztian Balog, Sally Goldman +5

The promise of LLM-based user simulators to improve conversational AI is hindered by a critical "realism gap," leading to systems that are optimized for simulated interactions, but…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation

Philippe Laban, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yingbo Zhou +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also t…