Pingyu Wu
2026
Trait Activation in Silicon: A Situation-Aware Framework for Psychologically Grounded Role-Playing
Zuolong Li | Pingyu Wu | Xianwen Huang | Tianyi Wei | Wenbo Zhou
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zuolong Li | Pingyu Wu | Xianwen Huang | Tianyi Wei | Wenbo Zhou
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Role-playing agents (RPAs) have made significant strides in mimicking static character identities. However, their personality simulations remain superficial, lacking a profound understanding of complex human psychological mechanisms. We identify a critical bottleneck termed "**Personality Inertia**"—a behavioral rigidity where RLHF-induced alignment bias traps models in a sanitized, "helpful assistant" persona. This inertia prevents models from adapting to diverse social contexts or expressing essential but negative traits under pressure. To bridge this gap, we propose **PD-LLM**, a situation-aware framework grounded in *Trait Activation Theory*. PD-LLM introduces **Bipolar Latent Decomposition**, which decouples personality traits into bidirectional LoRA adapters. These adapters are dynamically modulated by a situation-aware module based on the *DIAMONDS taxonomy*, allowing for precise behavioral regulation. Empirical results show that while baseline methods fail to synchronize multidimensional traits under pressure, PD-LLM achieves superior performance in both **static fidelity** and **dynamic adaptability**. By advancing from prompt engineering to intrinsic parameter control, PD-LLM effectively overcomes personality rigidity, facilitating the creation of vivid and psychologically consistent agents.
2025
MES-RAG: Bringing Multi-modal, Entity-Storage, and Secure Enhancements to RAG
Pingyu Wu | Daiheng Gao | Jing Tang | Huimin Chen | Wenbo Zhou | Weiming Zhang | Nenghai Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
Pingyu Wu | Daiheng Gao | Jing Tang | Huimin Chen | Wenbo Zhou | Weiming Zhang | Nenghai Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves Large Language Models (LLMs) by using external knowledge, but it struggles with precise entity information retrieval. Our proposed **MES-RAG** framework enhances entity-specific query handling and provides accurate, secure, and consistent responses. MES-RAG introduces proactive security measures that ensure system integrity by applying protections prior to data access. Additionally, the system supports real-time multi-modal outputs, including text, images, audio, and video, seamlessly integrating into existing RAG architectures. Experimental results demonstrate that MES-RAG significantly improves both accuracy and recall, highlighting its effectiveness in advancing the security and utility of question-answering, increasing accuracy to **0.83 (+0.25)** on targeted task. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/wpydcr/MES-RAG.