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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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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#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?? 🤯

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

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

#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/

Ahh sorry I missed Lucy - I was oot

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

Try sweet maria