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Marwa Abdulhai

8 accepted papers

2025

Consistently Simulating Human Personas with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human users in interactive settings such as therapy, education, and social role-play. While these simulations enable scalable training and evaluation of AI agents, off-the-shelf LLMs often drift from their assigned personas, contradict e…

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2025

Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward

NeurIPS 2025poster

Effective conversational agents must personalize their interactions to adapt to user preferences, personalities, and attributes across diverse domains like education and healthcare. Current methods like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), often prioritize helpfulness and safety but fa…

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2025

Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive capabilities for social interaction and are increasingly being deployed in situations where they might engage with both human and artificial agents. These interactions represent a critical frontier for LLM-based agents, yet existing eval…

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2025

LMRL Gym: Benchmarks for Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning with Language Models

ICML 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) provide excellent text-generation capabilities, but standard prompting and generation methods generally do not lead to intentional or goal-directed agents and might necessitate considerable prompt tuning. Even the best current LLMs rarely ask clarifying questions, engage…

2024

Moral Foundations of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Moral foundations theory (MFT) is a psychological assessment tool that decomposes human moral reasoning into five factors, including care/harm, liberty/oppression, and sanctity/degradation (Graham et al., 2009). People vary in the weight they place on these dimensions when making moral decisions, in…

2024

Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) are trained from vast repositories of text authored by millions of distinct authors, reflecting an enormous diversity of human traits. While these models bear the potential to be used as approximations of human subjects in behavioral studies, prior efforts have been limi…

2022

Context-Specific Representation Abstraction for Deep Option Learning

AAAI 2022technical

Hierarchical reinforcement learning has focused on discovering temporally extended actions, such as options, that can provide benefits in problems requiring extensive exploration. One promising approach that learns these options end-to-end is the option-critic (OC) framework. We examine and show in…

2021

A Policy Gradient Algorithm for Learning to Learn in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2021spotlight

A fundamental challenge in multiagent reinforcement learning is to learn beneficial behaviors in a shared environment with other simultaneously learning agents. In particular, each agent perceives the environment as effectively non-stationary due to the changing policies of other agents. Moreover, e…