arXiv:2603. 03915v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable potential in developing role-playing agents (RPAs).
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The paper introduces a Situation–Internal state–Behavior Persona method to improve large language models’ ability to impersonate real individuals in social media contexts. It also proposes an evaluation protocol that supplies LLM evaluators with reference information about the target individual. Experiments on a new dataset of social media replies show the method surpasses state‑of‑the‑art in‑context learning baselines, and the protocol correlates moderately with human judgments, while additional tests on fictional characters confirm broader applicability.
arXiv:2609.22255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing approaches to persona simulation with Large Language Models (LLMs) mostly rely on shallow character descriptions that fail to sustain coherent...
The paper introduces a diagnostic framework to disentangle the effects of character profile axes—Familiarity, Structure, and Disposition—on large language model role‑playing agents. Experiments on 211 personas and five LLMs show that Familiarity and Structure have little impact, whereas Disposition, particularly immoral traits, consistently degrades performance. The authors propose Field‑Aware Contrastive Decoding (FACD), a training‑free method that mitigates this performance gap without harming moral‑character performance.
arXiv:2606. 14695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language Models (LMs) have shown remarkable potential as role-playing chatbots, delivering consistent, stylized interactions when given a specification of a character or user persona.
arXiv:2606. 18263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human populations via persona prompting, often under the assumptions that richer persona descriptions improve behavioral fidelity, similarly sized attribute combinations are equally simulatable, and persona definitions generalize across tasks.
The paper examines whether fine‑tuning large language models (LLMs) with personality‑labelled data improves their ability to act as socially interactive agents. Two small open‑weight LLMs were fine‑tuned on a corpus of personality‑labelled social media posts and dialogues, and the resulting models were evaluated in various social interaction scenarios by independent LLM judges. The findings show that the fine‑tuned models do not outperform their baseline counterparts in role‑playing personalities, though they offer comparable text quality and increased linguistic diversity for the Qwen models; low inter‑rater agreement limits confidence in the results, suggesting future work should focus on training data quality and domain alignment.