most citedToo Good to be Bad: On the Failure of LLMs to Role-Play Villains

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14 papers

cs.AI2026

Think Fast and Slow: Step-Level Cognitive Depth Adaptation for LLM Agents

Ruihan Yang, Fanghua Ye, Xiang We +10

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents for multi-turn decision-making tasks. However, current agents typically rely on fixed cognitive patterns…

cs.CV2026

The Script is All You Need: An Agentic Framework for Long-Horizon Dialogue-to-Cinematic Video Generation

Chenyu Mu, Xin He, Qu Yang +13

Recent advances in video generation have produced models capable of synthesizing stunning visual content from simple text prompts. However, these models struggle to generate long-f…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Too Good to be Bad: On the Failure of LLMs to Role-Play Villains

Zihao Yi, Qingxuan Jiang, Ruotian Ma +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly tasked with creative generation, including the simulation of fictional characters. However, their ability to portray non-prosocial, an…

cs.CL2025

Social Welfare Function Leaderboard: When LLM Agents Allocate Social Welfare

Zhengliang Shi, Ruotian Ma, Jen-tse Huang +14

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly entrusted with high-stakes decisions that affect human welfare. However, the principles and values that guide these models when distri…

cs.CL2025

BatonVoice: An Operationalist Framework for Enhancing Controllable Speech Synthesis with Linguistic Intelligence from LLMs

Yue Wang, Ruotian Ma, Xingyu Chen +12

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) is reshaping multimodel models, with speech synthesis being a prominent application. However, existing approaches often underutilize the li…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

The Hunger Game Debate: On the Emergence of Over-Competition in Multi-Agent Systems

Xinbei Ma, Ruotian Ma, Xingyu Chen +14

LLM-based multi-agent systems demonstrate great potential for tackling complex problems, but how competition shapes their behavior remains underexplored. This paper investigates th…

cs.CL2025

CogDual: Enhancing Dual Cognition of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Rule-Based Rewards

Cheng Liu, Yifei Lu, Fanghua Ye +5

Role-Playing Language Agents (RPLAs) have emerged as a significant application direction for Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing approaches typically rely on prompt engineering…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

RLVER: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Emotion Rewards for Empathetic Agents

Peisong Wang, Ruotian Ma, Bang Zhang +13

Large language models (LLMs) excel at logical and algorithmic reasoning, yet their emotional intelligence (EQ) still lags far behind their cognitive prowess. While reinforcement le…

cs.CL2025

CogniBench: A Legal-inspired Framework and Dataset for Assessing Cognitive Faithfulness of Large Language Models

Xiaqiang Tang, Jian Li, Keyu Hu +5

Faithfulness hallucinations are claims generated by a Large Language Model (LLM) not supported by contexts provided to the LLM. Lacking assessment standards, existing benchmarks fo…

cs.AI2025

Two Experts Are All You Need for Steering Thinking: Reinforcing Cognitive Effort in MoE Reasoning Models Without Additional Training

Mengru Wang, Xingyu Chen, Yue Wang +12

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures within Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved impressive reasoning capabilities by selectively activating experts to facilitate structur…

cs.CL2025

Sentient Agent as a Judge: Evaluating Higher-Order Social Cognition in Large Language Models

Bang Zhang, Ruotian Ma, Qingxuan Jiang +10

Assessing how well a large language model (LLM) understands human, rather than merely text, remains an open challenge. To bridge the gap, we introduce Sentient Agent as a Judge (SA…

cs.CL2025

SPC: Evolving Self-Play Critic via Adversarial Games for LLM Reasoning

Jiaqi Chen, Bang Zhang, Ruotian Ma +5

Evaluating the step-by-step reliability of large language model (LLM) reasoning, such as Chain-of-Thought, remains challenging due to the difficulty and cost of obtaining high-qual…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

CodeTool: Enhancing Programmatic Tool Invocation of LLMs via Process Supervision

Yifei Lu, Fanghua Ye, Jian Li +6

Tool invocation significantly enhances the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet challenges persist, particularly in complex task scenarios. Current methods, such as in…

cs.CL2025

The Lighthouse of Language: Enhancing LLM Agents via Critique-Guided Improvement

Ruihan Yang, Fanghua Ye, Jian Li +5

Large language models (LLMs) have recently transformed from text-based assistants to autonomous agents capable of planning, reasoning, and iteratively improving their actions. Whil…