@article{howdodecoderonlyllmsperceiveusersrethink,
  title = {How Do Decoder-Only LLMs Perceive Users? Rethinking Attention Masking for User Representation Learning},
  author = {Jiahao Yuan and Yike Xu and Jinyong Wen and Baokun Wang and Yang Chen and Xiaotong Lin and Wuliang Huang and Ziyi Gao and Xing Fu and Yu Cheng and Weiqiang Wang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.10622},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10622},
}