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Amanda Rasille Røn Volf, Morten Roed Frederiksen/Diminishing Returns of Intelligence: The Non-Linear Relationship Between LLM Scale and User Perception in Short-Duration Open-Ended Social Human-Robot InteractionsUnknown

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to drive embodied social agents, yet it remains unclear whether larger models improve user perception during brief human-robot encounters. This paper examines the effect of LLM parameter size on short-duration, open-ended social interactions with a robot interface. In a within-subjects study, 19 participants interacted with robot faces driven by Qwen3-VL models at 4B, 8B, and 30B parameters. Participants evaluated the interactions in terms of perceived intelligence, naturalness, enjoyment, and humor. Results showed no significant overall preference for the 30B model over the smaller variants, including no significant advantage over the 4B model in perceived naturalness or intelligence. A significant relationship between AI interaction frequency and intelligence rankings for the 30B model suggests that more experienced users may be more sensitive to differences in model capability. Overall, the findings indicate diminishing returns from model scaling in brief open-ended social HRI, where conversational flow, responsiveness, and socially appropriate behavior potentially matter as much as raw parameter count.

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