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Reasoning about the "why" behind user behavior can improve LLM personas! ✨🧠📈

📝Excited to share our new work: Improving LLM Personas via Rationalization with Psychological Scaffolds

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2504.17993
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29.04.2025 01:05 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

Improving LLM Personas via Rationalization with Psychological Scaffolds Language models prompted with a user description or persona can predict a user's preferences and opinions, but existing approaches to building personas -- based solely on a user's demographic attribut...

📖 So fun to collaborate with amazing folks at USC (Xiang Ren, @swabhs.bsky.social ) and Apple (Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Tim Paek) on this work! 🤝💡📣
Excited to finally share this—let us know what you think! 🙌🏽✨🎉

More details in our draft here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.17993

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29.04.2025 01:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

#socalnlp is the biggest it's ever been in 2024! We have 3 poster sessions up from 2! How many years until it's a two-day event?? 🤯

22.11.2024 21:50 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

We at UT Linguistics are hiring for 🔥 2 faculty positions in Computational Linguistics! Assistant or Associate professors, deadline Dec 1.
UT has a super vibrant comp ling & #nlp community!!

Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/158280

19.11.2024 22:38 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

And we're having a great time at #EMNLP2024, come talk to us!

14.11.2024 23:34 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

#EMNLP2024 has been a treat so far! Of course it doesn't hurt to win an outstanding paper award with my incredible PhD students Jaspreet Ranjit and @brihi.bsky.social and our wonderful collaborators at USC 😜
Paper: dill-lab.github.io/oath-frames/

14.11.2024 23:31 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Ahh sorry I missed Lucy - I was oot

08.10.2023 12:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hoping against hope that bluesky will be a breath of fresh air🤞Bit much?

17.05.2023 03:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Try sweet maria

17.05.2023 03:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@swabhs is following 20 prominent accounts

Lianhui Qin
@lianhui

NLP/ML Assistant Professor @UCSD

Rebecca Dorn
@rebeccadorn

PhD candidate at USC. Studying inequitable social systems in NLP, social media and content moderation. They/She http://rebedorn.github.io

Atharva Kulkarni
@athrvkk

CS PhD at USC | Prev - CMU, Apple, IIIT Delhi | Robust, Generalizable, and Trustworthy NLP https://athrvkk.github.io/

Deqing Fu
@deqing

CS PhD Student @USC. deqingfu.github.io

Berk Ustun
@berkustun

Assistant Prof at UCSD. I work on safety, interpretability, and fairness in machine learning. www.berkustun.com

Guy Van den Broeck
@guyvdb

🎓 CS Prof at UCLA 🧠 Researching reasoning and learning in artificial intelligence: tactable deep generative models, probabilistic circuits, probabilistic programming, neurosymbolic AI https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~guyvdb/

Sameer Singh
@sameer-singh

CS Prof at UC Irvine, CTO/Cofounder at Envive AI Work on evaluation and robustness of LLMs

Yisong Yue
@yisongyue

AI professor at Caltech. General Chair ICLR 2025. http://www.yisongyue.com

Marek Rei
@marekrei

AI/ML/NLP researcher and Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Working on language models for planning, reasoning and interpretable decision making

Alisa Liu
@alisawuffles

phd student at @uwcse

Mina Lee
@mnlee

Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS/DSI (NLP & HCI) | Writing with AI ✍️ https://minalee-research.github.io/

Mechanical Dirk
@mechanicaldirk

Training big models at @ai2.bsky.social.

Hamish Ivison
@hamishivi

I (try to) do NLP research. Antipodean abroad. currently doing PhD @uwcse, prev @usyd @ai2 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 ivison.id.au

Serena Booth
@reniebird

CS Prof at Brown University, PI of the GIRAFFE lab, former AI Policy Advisor in the US Senate, co-chair of the ACM Tech Policy Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms. PhD at MIT CSAIL '23, Harvard '16, former Google APM. Dog mom to Ducki.

Ari
@ari-holtzman

Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS & DSI UChicao Leading Conceptualization Lab http://conceptualization.ai Minting new vocabulary to conceptualize generative models.

Sunipa Dev
@sunipadev

Responsible, and Inclusive #NLProc. Senior RS @ Google Research. she/her

Kawin Ethayarajh
@kawinethayarajh

Postdoc at Princeton PLI. Formerly PhD at Stanford CS. Working on behavioral machine learning. https://kawine.github.io/

Xinyan Velocity Yu
@velocityyu

NLP/ML @usc, @uwcse. she/her.🏹🤖👩🏻‍🍳. velocitycavalry.github.io. Multilinguality, retrieval, refining LLMs…

Ameya Godbole
@ameyagodbole

PhD student USC NLP working on generalization and reasoning, prev UMassAmherst, IITG (he/him)

Noah A. Smith
@nlpnoah

Researcher in NLP, ML, computer music. Prof @uwcse @uwnlp & helper @allen_ai @ai2_allennlp & familiar to two cats. Single reeds, tango, swim, run, cocktails, מאַמע־לשון, GenX. Opinions not your business.