Summary of Character Is Destiny: Can Role-playing Language Agents Make Persona-driven Decisions?, by Rui Xu et al.
Character is Destiny: Can Role-Playing Language Agents Make Persona-Driven Decisions?
by Rui Xu, Xintao Wang, Jiangjie Chen, Siyu Yuan, Xinfeng Yuan, Jiaqing Liang, Zulong Chen, Xiaoqing Dong, Yanghua Xiao
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can simulate humans in making important decisions by predicting characters’ decisions based on preceding stories in high-quality novels. The authors create a dataset LIFECHOICE comprising 1,462 characters’ decision points from 388 books and benchmark the ability of LLMs in persona-driven decision-making using various RPLA methodologies. The results show that state-of-the-art LLMs exhibit promising capabilities but leave room for improvement. To address this limitation, the authors propose the CHARMAP method, which adopts persona-based memory retrieval and achieves a 5.03% increase in accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large Language Models (LLMs) are really smart computers that can understand and generate human-like language. Researchers want to know if these LLMs can make good decisions like humans do when they have to choose what to do next. To find out, the authors created a special set of stories from novels and asked the LLMs to predict what characters would do in each situation. They also compared how well different LLMs did this task using different methods. The results showed that some LLMs were pretty good at making these predictions, but there was still room for improvement. To help them improve, the authors came up with a new way called CHARMAP that uses special memories to help the LLMs make better decisions. |
