UPLex: Fine-Grained Personality Control in Large Language Models via Unsupervised Lexical Modulation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Tianlong Li, Wenhao Liu, Muling Wu, Shihan Dou, Zhenghua Wang, Changze Lv, Xiaohua Wang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Personality is a crucial factor that shapes human communication patterns, thereby regulating the personalities of large language models (LLMs). |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses an Unsupervisedly-Built Personalized Lexicon (UPL) during the decoding phase to manipulate LLM’s personality traits. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can modulate the personality expression of large language models by dynamically altering their predicted probability of upcoming words in a pluggable fashion. |
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