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Jiaxin Pei

16 accepted papers

2026

Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks

ICML 2026poster

Existing evaluations of agents with memory typically assess **memorization** and **action** in isolation. One class of benchmarks evaluates memorization by testing recall of past conversations or text but fails to capture how memory is used to guide future decisions. Another class focuses on agents …

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2026

Benchmarking Overton Pluralism in LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce a novel framework for measuring Overton pluralism in LLMs—the extent to which diverse viewpoints are represented in model outputs. We (i) formalize Overton pluralism as a set-coverage metric (OVERTONSCORE), (ii) conduct a large-scale US-representative human study (N=1209; 60 questions;…

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2026

Position: Robust AI Personalization Will Require a Human Context Protocol

ICML 2026poster

Personalization underpins the modern digital economy. Today, personalization is largely implemented through provider-managed infrastructure that infers user preferences from behavioral data, with limited portability or user control. However, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used t…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2025

Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals’ Subjective Text Perceptions

ACL 2025long

People naturally vary in their annotations for subjective questions and some of this variation is thought to be due to the person’s sociodemographic characteristics. LLMs have also been used to label data, but recent work has shown that models perform poorly when prompted with sociodemographic attri…

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2025

Causally Modeling the Linguistic and Social Factors that Predict Email Response

NAACL 2025long

Email is a vital conduit for human communication across businesses, organizations, and broader societal contexts. In this study, we aim to model the intents, expectations, and responsiveness in email exchanges. To this end, we release SIZZLER, a new dataset containing 1800 emails annotated with nuan…

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2025

ReCAP: Recursive Context-Aware Reasoning and Planning for Large Language Model Agents

NeurIPS 2025poster

Long-horizon tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and dynamic re-planning remain challenging for large language models (LLMs). Sequential prompting methods are prone to context drift, loss of goal information, and recurrent failure cycles, while hierarchical prompting methods often weaken cross-leve…

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2025

Sociodemographic Prompting is Not Yet an Effective Approach for Simulating Subjective Judgments with LLMs

NAACL 2025short

Human judgments are inherently subjective and are actively affected by personal traits such as gender and ethnicity. While Large LanguageModels (LLMs) are widely used to simulate human responses across diverse contexts, their ability to account for demographic differencesin subjective tasks remains…

2024

Modeling and Detecting Company Risks from News

NAACL 2024industry

Identifying risks associated with a company is important to investors and the wellbeing of the overall financial markets. In this study, we build a computational framework to automatically extract company risk factors from news articles. Our newly proposed schema comprises seven distinct aspects, su…

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2024

When ”A Helpful Assistant” Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Prompting serves as the major way humans interact with Large Language Models (LLM). Commercial AI systems commonly define the role of the LLM in system prompts. For example, ChatGPT uses ”You are a helpful assistant” as part of its default system prompt. Despite current practices of adding personas…

2023

Do LLMs Understand Social Knowledge? Evaluating the Sociability of Large Language Models with SocKET Benchmark

EMNLP 2023long main

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform well at a variety of syntactic, discourse, and reasoning tasks. While LLMs are increasingly deployed in many forms including conversational agents that interact with humans, we lack a grounded benchmark to measure how well LLMs understand socia…

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2023

SuperTweetEval: A Challenging, Unified and Heterogeneous Benchmark for Social Media NLP Research

EMNLP 2023long findings

Despite its relevance, the maturity of NLP for social media pales in comparison with general-purpose models, metrics and benchmarks. This fragmented landscape makes it hard for the community to know, for instance, given a task, which is the best performing model and how it compares with others. To a…

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2022

Modeling Information Change in Science Communication with Semantically Matched Paraphrases

EMNLP 2022main

Whether the media faithfully communicate scientific information has long been a core issue to the science community. Automatically identifying paraphrased scientific findings could enable large-scale tracking and analysis of information changes in the science communication process, but this requires…