Know You First and Be You Better: Modeling Human-Like User Simulators via Implicit Profiles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18968v2
• Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:41:20 GMT
• Title: Know You First and Be You Better: Modeling Human-Like User Simulators via Implicit Profiles
• Authors: Kuang Wang, Xianfei Li, Shenghao Yang, Li Zhou, Feng Jiang, Haizhou Li,
• Abstract summary: User simulators are crucial for replicating human interactions with dialogue systems.<n>We propose User Simulator with implicit Profiles (USP), a framework that infers implicit user profiles from human-machine conversations.<n>USP outperforms strong baselines in terms of authenticity and diversity while achieving comparable performance in consistency.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: User simulators are crucial for replicating human interactions with dialogue systems, supporting both collaborative training and automatic evaluation, especially for large language models (LLMs). However, existing simulators often rely solely on text utterances, missing implicit user traits such as personality, speaking style, and goals. In contrast, persona-based methods lack generalizability, as they depend on predefined profiles of famous individuals or archetypes. To address these challenges, we propose User Simulator with implicit Profiles (USP), a framework that infers implicit user profiles from human-machine conversations and uses them to generate more personalized and realistic dialogues. We first develop an LLM-driven extractor with a comprehensive profile schema. Then, we refine the simulation through conditional supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with cycle consistency, optimizing it at both the utterance and conversation levels. Finally, we adopt a diverse profile sampler to capture the distribution of real-world user profiles. Experimental results demonstrate that USP outperforms strong baselines in terms of authenticity and diversity while achieving comparable performance in consistency. Furthermore, dynamic multi-turn evaluations based on USP strongly align with mainstream benchmarks, demonstrating its effectiveness in real-world applications.

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