Yiting Ran


2024

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Capturing Minds, Not Just Words: Enhancing Role-Playing Language Models with Personality-Indicative Data
Yiting Ran | Xintao Wang | Rui Xu | Xinfeng Yuan | Jiaqing Liang | Yanghua Xiao | Deqing Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024

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 well portray the characters’ knowledge and tones, they face challenges in capturing their minds, especially for small role-playing language models (RPLMs). In this paper, we propose to enhance RPLMs via personality-indicative data. Specifically, we leverage questions from psychological scales and distill advanced RPAs to generate dialogues that grasp the minds of characters. Experimental results validate that RPLMs trained with our dataset exhibit advanced role-playing capabilities for both general and personality-related evaluations.