SocialRL: Refining LLMs' Social Intelligence through Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning and Reward Design

SocialRL is a multi-turn reinforcement learning framework that refines large language models’ social intelligence. It uses PPO to propagate delayed outcome rewards across turns, enabling long‑horizon planning, and introduces six process reward dimensions—such as goal advancement and relational attunement—to capture the goal‑relationship trade‑off. A reward model provides fine‑grained scoring and a stage‑aware weight schedule prioritizes relationship building early, goal pursuit mid‑way, and balanced closure later, yielding an average 9.2 percentage‑point improvement in goal achievement across multiple social‑dialogue benchmarks.

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• llms
• agents
• reinforcement-learning
• benchmarks