通过桥接推理揭示大模型对话中的深层人格特征。
The Pragmatic Persona: Discovering LLM Persona through Bridging Inference

- 用桥接推理建模对话中隐含的概念关联,构建语义知识图谱。
- 在多类模型上验证,其识别的人格一致性显著优于传统方法。
- 适合对大模型人格、认知语言学感兴趣的 researchers 和工程师。
大语言模型在对话中展现出固有的独特人格,但现有发现方法多依赖表层词汇或风格线索,将对话视为扁平的词元序列,难以捕捉维持人格一致性的深层话语结构。为此,本文提出一种新分析框架,通过桥接推理——即基于共享世界知识和话语连贯性隐含连接各话语的机制——解析大模型对话。将这些关系建模为结构化知识图谱,可捕获驱动模型跨轮次意义组织的潜在语义联系,实现基于话语连贯性而非表面表达的人格发现。在多种推理主干和目标大模型(从小规模模型到800亿参数系统)上的实验表明,桥接推理图谱在语义连贯性和人格识别稳定性上均显著优于频率或风格基线。结果表明,人格特质被编码于话语结构之中,而非孤立的词汇模式。本工作系统地提出了基于认知话语理论探测、提取与可视化大模型潜在人格的框架,融合计算语言学、认知语义学与大模型人格推理。代码已开源:https://github.com/JiSoo-Yang/Persona_Bridging.git
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Models (LLMs) reveal inherent and distinctive personas through dialogue. However, most existing persona discovery approaches rely on surface-level lexical or stylistic cues, treating dialogue as a flat sequence of tokens and failing to capture the deeper discourse-level structures that sustain persona consistency. To address this limitation, we propose a novel analytical framework that interprets LLM dialogue through bridging inference -- implicit conceptual relations that connect utterances via shared world knowledge and discourse coherence. By modeling these relations as structured knowledge graphs, our approach captures latent semantic links that govern how LLMs organize meaning across turns, enabling persona discovery at the level of discourse coherence rather than surface realizations. Experimental results across multiple reasoning backbones and target LLMs, ranging from small-scale models to 80B-parameter systems, demonstrate that bridging-inference graphs yield significantly stronger semantic coherence and more stable persona identification than frequency or style-based baselines. These results show that persona traits are consistently encoded in the structural organization of discourse rather than isolated lexical patterns. This work presents a systematic framework for probing, extracting, and visualizing latent LLM personas through the lens of Cognitive Discourse Theory, bridging computational linguistics, cognitive semantics, and persona reasoning in large language models. Codes are available at https://github.com/JiSoo-Yang/Persona_Bridging.git
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