Mingjin Li
2025
MADS: Multi-Agent Dialogue Simulation for Diverse Persuasion Data Generation
Mingjin Li
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Yu Liu
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Huayi Liu
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Xiang Ye
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Chao Jiang
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Hongguang Zhang
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Yu Ruan
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
We propose MADS (Multi-Agent Dialogue Simulation), a scalable framework for generating persuasive multi-turn dialogues via agent self-play. MADS employs three coordinated agents: User Agents designed to simulate diverse persona-driven behaviors by leveraging personality signifiers such as Zodiac Signs and MBTI types, a Dialog Agent executing task-oriented persuasion strategies and an Optimization Agent evaluating and refining dialogue outcomes. We further validate its effectiveness through users’ Chain-of-Attitude (CoA) modeling and dedicated LLMs’ persuasion assessment. This approach enables low-cost generation of training data without human annotation, addressing key industry challenges such as lack of user data, cold-start evaluation difficulties, and prompt inefficiency. Applied to a real-world marketing scenario, MADS significantly improved the persuasion capacity of small LLMs, increasing the organic traffic conversion rate by 22.4% (from 1.83% to 2.24%) , demonstrating clear business value.