ChARM: Character-based Act-adaptive Reward Modeling for Advanced Role-Playing Language Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23923v1
• Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 18:15:18 GMT
• Title: ChARM: Character-based Act-adaptive Reward Modeling for Advanced Role-Playing Language Agents
• Authors: Feiteng Fang, Ting-En Lin, Yuchuan Wu, Xiong Liu, Xiang Huang, Dingwei Chen, Jing Ye, Haonan Zhang, Liang Zhu, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li,
• Abstract summary: Role-Playing Language Agents (RPLAs) aim to simulate characters for realistic and engaging human-computer interactions.<n>We propose ChARM, a Character-based Act-adaptive Reward Model.<n>We introduce RoleplayPref, the first large-scale preference dataset specifically for RPLAs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Role-Playing Language Agents (RPLAs) aim to simulate characters for realistic and engaging human-computer interactions. However, traditional reward models often struggle with scalability and adapting to subjective conversational preferences. We propose ChARM, a Character-based Act-adaptive Reward Model, addressing these challenges through two innovations: (1) an act-adaptive margin that significantly enhances learning efficiency and generalizability, and (2) a self-evolution mechanism leveraging large-scale unlabeled data to improve training coverage. Additionally, we introduce RoleplayPref, the first large-scale preference dataset specifically for RPLAs, featuring 1,108 characters, 13 subcategories, and 16,888 bilingual dialogues, alongside RoleplayEval, a dedicated evaluation benchmark. Experimental results show a 13% improvement over the conventional Bradley-Terry model in preference rankings. Furthermore, applying ChARM-generated rewards to preference learning techniques (e.g., direct preference optimization) achieves state-of-the-art results on CharacterEval and RoleplayEval. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/calubkk/ChARM.

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