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20222026
most citedFrom Persona to Personalization: A Survey on Role-Playing Language Agents

14 citations · 46 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.CL2026

DREAM: LLM-based Dynamic Role-playing via Event-Aware Memory Graph

Zhihao Xiao, Mengting Li, Xintao Wang +4

Role-playing agents (RPAs) have emerged as a key application of large language models, enabling immersive and high-fidelity character simulation. Accurate role-playing of establish…

cs.LG2026

HER: Human-like Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning for LLM Role-playing

Chengyu Du, Xintao Wang, Aili Chen +11

LLM role-playing, i.e., using LLMs to simulate specific personas, has emerged as a key capability in various applications, such as companionship, content creation and digital games…

cs.CL2026

HumanLLM: Benchmarking and Improving LLM Anthropomorphism via Human Cognitive Patterns

Xintao Wang, Jian Yang, Weiyuan Li +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and generation, serving as the foundation for advanced persona simulation and Role-Playing Langu…

cs.AI2025

ORIGAMISPACE: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs in Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning with Mathematical Constraints

Rui Xu, Dakuan Lu, Zicheng Zhao +5

Spatial reasoning is a key capability in the field of artificial intelligence, especially crucial in areas such as robotics, computer vision, and natural language understanding. Ho…

cs.CL2025

Curse of Knowledge: When Complex Evaluation Context Benefits yet Biases LLM Judges

Weiyuan Li, Xintao Wang, Siyu Yuan +5

As large language models (LLMs) grow more capable, they face increasingly diverse and complex tasks, making reliable evaluation challenging. The paradigm of LLMs as judges has emer…

cs.CL2025

ARIA: Training Language Agents with Intention-Driven Reward Aggregation

Ruihan Yang, Yikai Zhang, Aili Chen +5

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled agents to perform complex reasoning and decision-making through free-form language interactions. However, in open-ended language action en…

cs.CL2025

Can LLMs Learn to Map the World from Local Descriptions?

Sirui Xia, Aili Chen, Xintao Wang +4

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in tasks such as code and mathematics. However, their potential to internalize structured spat…

cs.CL2025

BookWorld: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Creative Story Generation

Yiting Ran, Xintao Wang, Tian Qiu +3

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled social simulation through multi-agent systems. Prior efforts focus on agent societies created from scratch, assigning a…

cs.AI2025

Guess What I am Thinking: A Benchmark for Inner Thought Reasoning of Role-Playing Language Agents

Rui Xu, MingYu Wang, XinTao Wang +4

Recent advances in LLM-based role-playing language agents (RPLAs) have attracted broad attention in various applications. While chain-of-thought reasoning has shown importance in m…

cs.CL2025

PowerAttention: Exponentially Scaling of Receptive Fields for Effective Sparse Attention

Lida Chen, Dong Xu, Chenxin An +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) face efficiency bottlenecks due to the quadratic complexity of the attention mechanism when processing long contexts. Sparse attention methods offer a…

cs.CL2025

CoSER: A Comprehensive Literary Dataset and Framework for Training and Evaluating LLM Role-Playing and Persona Simulation

Xintao Wang, Heng Wang, Yifei Zhang +9

Role-playing language agents (RPLAs) have emerged as promising applications of large language models (LLMs). However, simulating established characters presents a challenging task…

cs.CL2024

PERSONA: A Reproducible Testbed for Pluralistic Alignment

Louis Castricato, Nathan Lile, Rafael Rafailov +2

The rapid advancement of language models (LMs) necessitates robust alignment with diverse user values. However, current preference optimization approaches often fail to capture the…

cs.AI2024

MINDECHO: Role-Playing Language Agents for Key Opinion Leaders

Rui Xu, Dakuan Lu, Xiaoyu Tan +5

Large language models~(LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various applications, among which role-playing language agents (RPLAs) have engaged a broad user base. Now,…

cs.CL2024

Ground Every Sentence: Improving Retrieval-Augmented LLMs with Interleaved Reference-Claim Generation

Sirui Xia, Xintao Wang, Jiaqing Liang +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been widely adopted to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks. To enhance credibility and verifiability in RAG s…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Chain-of-Knowledge: Integrating Knowledge Reasoning into Large Language Models by Learning from Knowledge Graphs

Yifei Zhang, Xintao Wang, Jiaqing Liang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive proficiency in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which involve increasingly complex reasoning. Knowledge reaso…

cs.CV2024

Light Up the Shadows: Enhance Long-Tailed Entity Grounding with Concept-Guided Vision-Language Models

Yikai Zhang, Qianyu He, Xintao Wang +3

Multi-Modal Knowledge Graphs (MMKGs) have proven valuable for various downstream tasks. However, scaling them up is challenging because building large-scale MMKGs often introduces…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Teaching Large Language Models to Express Knowledge Boundary from Their Own Signals

Lida Chen, Zujie Liang, Xintao Wang +7

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success, but their occasional content fabrication, or hallucination, limits their practical application. Hallucination arises becau…

cs.CL2024

Capturing Minds, Not Just Words: Enhancing Role-Playing Language Models with Personality-Indicative Data

Yiting Ran, Xintao Wang, Rui Xu +4

Role-playing agents (RPA) have been a popular application area for large language models (LLMs), attracting significant interest from both industry and academia.While existing RPAs…

cs.CL2024

SurveyAgent: A Conversational System for Personalized and Efficient Research Survey

Xintao Wang, Jiangjie Chen, Nianqi Li +6

In the rapidly advancing research fields such as AI, managing and staying abreast of the latest scientific literature has become a significant challenge for researchers. Although p…

cs.CL2024★ 14 cited

From Persona to Personalization: A Survey on Role-Playing Language Agents

Jiangjie Chen, Xintao Wang, Rui Xu +15

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly boosted the rise of Role-Playing Language Agents (RPLAs), i.e., specialized AI systems designed to simulate a…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Evaluating Character Understanding of Large Language Models via Character Profiling from Fictional Works

Xinfeng Yuan, Siyu Yuan, Yuhan Cui +5

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance and spurred numerous AI applications, in which role-playing agents (RPAs) are particularly popular, especially…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Character is Destiny: Can Role-Playing Language Agents Make Persona-Driven Decisions?

Rui Xu, Xintao Wang, Jiangjie Chen +6

Can Large Language Models (LLMs) simulate humans in making important decisions? Recent research has unveiled the potential of using LLMs to develop role-playing language agents (RP…

cs.CL2024

ConcEPT: Concept-Enhanced Pre-Training for Language Models

Xintao Wang, Zhouhong Gu, Jiaqing Liang +3

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been prevailing in state-of-the-art methods for natural language processing, and knowledge-enhanced PLMs are further proposed to promote mod…

cs.CL2023

Source Prompt: Coordinated Pre-training of Language Models on Diverse Corpora from Multiple Sources

Yipei Xu, Dakuan Lu, Jiaqing Liang +7

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have established the new paradigm in the field of NLP. For more powerful PLMs, one of the most popular and successful way is to continuously scal…