Zhaoxia Zhang
2026
ExpertIVS: Sociological Expert Driven Individual Value Simulation in Large Language Models
Zhen Wang | Yuqi Ren | Yuehan Cui | Hongxiang Wang | Jianxiang Peng | Zhaoxia Zhang | Bingkun Zhu | Tongxuan Zhang | Dezhi Tong | Deyi Xiong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zhen Wang | Yuqi Ren | Yuehan Cui | Hongxiang Wang | Jianxiang Peng | Zhaoxia Zhang | Bingkun Zhu | Tongxuan Zhang | Dezhi Tong | Deyi Xiong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated considerable potential for social simulation, yet struggle to accurately model individual value systems. Most existing methods mechanically stitch survey responses into prompts, which suffer from semantic fragmentation, failing to capture the internal coherence of human value systems. The value systems of LLMs are typically assessed using static multiple-choice questions, which fail to evaluate the value orientation in real-world dialogue interactions. To address these issues, we propose ExpertIVS, a framework employing 14 Sociological Expert Agents to interpret World Values Survey (WVS) responses through structured professional perspectives, rather than direct responses concatenation. These expert agents perform deep semantic reconstruction to generate robust and internally consistent individual profiles. To evaluate the consistency between LLMs and individual value systems during dynamic interactions, we further introduce a multi-agent debate mechanism. Extensive experiments across 480 individuals from 12 countries demonstrate that ExpertIVS achieves 90.78% value restoration fidelity and significantly outperforms baselines in value generalization (+5.3%). Moreover, ExpertIVS exhibits strong personality discriminability and behavioral consistency, enabling a shift from mere response concatenation to genuine sociological role-playing.
2007
CHAT to Your Destination
Fuliang Weng | Baoshi Yan | Zhe Feng | Florin Ratiu | Madhuri Raya | Brian Lathrop | Annie Lien | Sebastian Varges | Rohit Mishra | Feng Lin | Matthew Purver | Harry Bratt | Yao Meng | Stanley Peters | Tobias Scheideck | Badri Raghunathan | Zhaoxia Zhang
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Fuliang Weng | Baoshi Yan | Zhe Feng | Florin Ratiu | Madhuri Raya | Brian Lathrop | Annie Lien | Sebastian Varges | Rohit Mishra | Feng Lin | Matthew Purver | Harry Bratt | Yao Meng | Stanley Peters | Tobias Scheideck | Badri Raghunathan | Zhaoxia Zhang
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
A Conversational In-Car Dialog System
Baoshi Yan | Fuliang Weng | Zhe Feng | Florin Ratiu | Madhuri Raya | Yao Meng | Sebastian Varges | Matthew Purver | Annie Lien | Tobias Scheideck | Badri Raghunathan | Feng Lin | Rohit Mishra | Brian Lathrop | Zhaoxia Zhang | Harry Bratt | Stanley Peters
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)
Baoshi Yan | Fuliang Weng | Zhe Feng | Florin Ratiu | Madhuri Raya | Yao Meng | Sebastian Varges | Matthew Purver | Annie Lien | Tobias Scheideck | Badri Raghunathan | Feng Lin | Rohit Mishra | Brian Lathrop | Zhaoxia Zhang | Harry Bratt | Stanley Peters
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)