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Controlling and Assessing Appropriate Persona Use in LLM-based Dialogue Generation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 4, 2026 · UTC

In persona-based dialogue generation (PDG), LLMs often overuse persona attributes by incorporating them regardless of dialogue context, resulting in unnatural responses. Despite its practical significance, the underlying causes remain unexplored, with no method to mitigate this problem or metric to assess the appropriateness of persona use. To address these issues, we first conduct a comprehensive analysis of LLM-based PDG, revealing that LLMs exhibit a systematic bias to incorporate all given persona attributes, and that existing metrics fail to capture contextual appropriateness. Building on

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