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Deepali Mishra
dblp:299/3952
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · unresolved
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › alignment
sycophancy |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Too Nice to Tell the Truth: Quantifying Agreeableness-Driven Sycophancy in Role-Playing Language Models · ACL (1) 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › pre-trained language model › conversational language models
role-playing language models |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Too Nice to Tell the Truth: Quantifying Agreeableness-Driven Sycophancy in Role-Playing Language Models · ACL (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
correlation analysis · 1.0benchmark construction · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Too Nice to Tell the Truth: Quantifying Agreeableness-Driven Sycophancy in Role-Playing Language ModelsabstractLarge language models increasingly serve as conversational agents that adopt personas and role-play characters at user request.This capability, while valuable, raises concerns about sycophancy: the tendency to provide responses that validate users rather than prioritize factual accuracy.While prior work has established that sycophancy poses risks to AI safety and alignment, the relationship between specific personality traits of adopted personas and the degree of sycophantic behavior remains unexplored.We present a systematic investigation of how persona agreeableness influences sycophancy across 13 small, open-weight language models ranging from 0.6B to 20B parameters.We develop a benchmark comprising 275 personas evaluated on NEO-IPIP agreeableness subscales and expose each persona to 4,950 sycophancy-eliciting prompts spanning 33 topic categories.Our analysis reveals that 9 of 13 models exhibit statistically significant positive correlations between persona agreeableness and sycophancy rates, with Pearson correlations reaching r = 0.87 and effect sizes as large as Cohen's d = 2.33.These findings demonstrate that agreeableness functions as a reliable predictor of persona-induced sycophancy, with direct implications for the deployment of role-playing AI systems and the development of alignment strategies that account for personality-mediated deceptive behaviors. Arya Shah, Deepali Mishra, Chaklam Silpasuwanchai |
ACL (1) | 2 |