Rochester Human-Computer Interaction

ROC-HCI Lab

University of Rochester  ·  PI: Ehsan Hoque

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Human-Computer Interaction Affective Computing AI for Health LLM Alignment Conversational AI Social Signal Processing

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arXiv 2026  ·  LLM Alignment
HAL: Inducing Human-likeness in LLMs with Alignment
Masum Hasan, Junjie Zhao, Ehsan Hoque
A framework for aligning language models to conversational human-likeness using an interpretable, data-driven reward derived from explicit conversational traits.
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