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Role-Playing Evaluation for Large Language Models

Computation and Language 2025-05-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate a notable capacity for adopting personas and engaging in role-playing. However, evaluating this ability presents significant challenges, as human assessments are resource-intensive and automated evaluations can be biased. To address this, we introduce Role-Playing Eval (RPEval), a novel benchmark designed to assess LLM role-playing capabilities across four key dimensions: emotional understanding, decision-making, moral alignment, and in-character consistency. This article details the construction of RPEval and presents baseline evaluations. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/yelboudouri/RPEval

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@article{arxiv.2505.13157,
  title  = {Role-Playing Evaluation for Large Language Models},
  author = {Yassine El Boudouri and Walter Nuninger and Julian Alvarez and Yvan Peter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13157},
  year   = {2025}
}
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