{"slug": "bridging-exploration-and-persona-information-directed-dueling-for-test-time", "title": "Bridging Exploration and Persona: Information-Directed Dueling for Test-Time Agent Personalization", "summary": "Researchers present ID-TAP, a scalable neural dueling-bandit framework inspired by information-directed sampling (IDS) that lets LLM agents personalize at test time by selecting a persona from binary comparisons between candidate responses as the online signal. The work frames persona selection as the core problem for adapting to query-dependent user preferences from lightweight interaction.", "body_md": "Effective test-time personalization requires LLM agents to adapt to query-dependent user preferences from lightweight interaction. We study persona selection with binary comparisons between candidate responses as the online signal. We present ID-TAP, a scalable, IDS-inspired neural dueling-bandit fr", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bridging-exploration-and-persona-information-directed-dueling-for-test-time", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/138231/", "published_at": "2026-10-23 17:40:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-23 17:41:42.758276+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "large-language-models", "machine-learning", "ai-research"], "entities": ["ID-TAP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bridging-exploration-and-persona-information-directed-dueling-for-test-time", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bridging-exploration-and-persona-information-directed-dueling-for-test-time.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bridging-exploration-and-persona-information-directed-dueling-for-test-time.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bridging-exploration-and-persona-information-directed-dueling-for-test-time.jsonld"}}