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Personalized Assistants

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How does LLM alignment affect representation across dialects?

When we align language models to specific preferences through RLHF or DPO, do these procedures inadvertently create disparities across English dialects and global opinions? Understanding alignment's unintended effects on representation matters for equitable AI.

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Can conversations themselves personalize without user profiles?

Can a conversational AI learn about user traits and adapt in real time by rewarding itself for asking insightful questions, rather than relying on pre-collected profiles or historical data?

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Can AI guidance reduce anchoring bias better than AI decisions?

When humans and AI collaborate on decisions, does providing interpretive guidance instead of proposed answers reduce both over-trust in machines and abandonment on hard cases?

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Why do LLM judges fail at predicting sparse user preferences?

When LLMs judge user preferences based on limited persona information, what causes their predictions to become unreliable? Understanding persona sparsity's role in judgment failure could improve personalization systems.

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Why do phone-use agents overfill optional personal data fields?

Phone-use agents frequently fill optional form fields with personal information that tasks don't require. Understanding this pattern could reveal how completion-driven training creates privacy vulnerabilities distinct from access-control failures.

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Can user preferences be learned from just ten questions?

Explores whether adaptive question selection can efficiently infer user-specific reward coefficients without historical data or fine-tuning. This matters for scaling personalization without per-user model updates.

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Do phone agents succeed at all three critical tasks equally?

Explores whether task success, privacy compliance, and preference reuse develop together in phone-use agents, or whether benchmarking one capability tells you nothing about the others.

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How stable is the trained Assistant personality in language models?

Explores whether post-training successfully anchors models to their default Assistant mode, or whether conversations can predictably pull them toward different personas. Understanding persona stability matters for safety and reliability.

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Can a two-category privacy boundary actually be auditable?

Most privacy frameworks are either too vague or too complex for agent deployment. Can a minimal binary split—LOW versus HIGH data categories—provide enough clarity for both users and automated compliance auditing?

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How do personalization granularity levels trade precision against scalability?

LLM personalization operates at user, persona, and global levels, each with different tradeoffs. Understanding these tradeoffs helps determine when to invest in individual user data versus broader patterns.

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