Summary of Characterbox: Evaluating the Role-playing Capabilities Of Llms in Text-based Virtual Worlds, by Lei Wang et al.
CharacterBox: Evaluating the Role-Playing Capabilities of LLMs in Text-Based Virtual Worlds
by Lei Wang, Jianxun Lian, Yi Huang, Yanqi Dai, Haoxuan Li, Xu Chen, Xing Xie, Ji-Rong Wen
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed CharacterBox simulation sandbox is designed to evaluate Large Language Models’ (LLMs) role-playing capabilities by generating situational fine-grained character behavior trajectories. This approach addresses the limitations of current evaluation methods that primarily focus on question-answering or conversational snapshots. The CharacterBox consists of a character agent grounded in psychological and behavioral science, which exhibits human-like behaviors, and a narrator agent that coordinates interactions between character agents and environmental changes. To reduce costs and facilitate adoption by public communities, the authors fine-tune two smaller models, CharacterNR and CharacterRM, as substitutes for GPT API calls, demonstrating their competitive performance compared to advanced GPT APIs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Role-playing is a special ability of computers that can understand language, like Large Language Models. This skill helps them create characters in games or stories that behave like humans. But it’s hard to test if these models are good at role-playing because it requires them to stay in character and make decisions based on the situation. The current way of testing is not very effective. In this paper, we introduce a new tool called CharacterBox that can help us evaluate LLMs’ role-playing abilities better. It has two parts: one that acts like a person and another that tells a story. We also show how to make smaller versions of these models that are faster and cheaper. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt » Question answering
