The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has paved the way for complex tasks such as role-playing, which enhances user interactions by enabling models to imitate various characters. However, the closed-source nature of state-of-the-art LLMs and their general-purpose training limit role-playing optimization. In this paper, we introduce RoleLLM, a framework to benchmark, elicit, and enhance role-playing abilities in LLMs. RoleLLM comprises four stages: (1) Role Profile Construction for 100 roles; (2) Context-Based Instruction Generation (Context-Instruct) for role-specific knowledge extraction; (3) Role Prompting using GPT (RoleGPT) for speaking style imitation; and (4) Role-Conditioned Instruction Tuning (RoCIT) for fine-tuning open-source models along with role customization. By Context-Instruct and RoleGPT, we create RoleBench, the first systematic and fine-grained character-level benchmark dataset for role-playing with 168,093 samples. Moreover, RoCIT on RoleBench yields RoleLLaMA (English) and RoleGLM (Chinese), significantly enhancing role-playing abilities and even achieving comparable results with RoleGPT (using GPT-4).
@article{arxiv.2310.00746,
title = {RoleLLM: Benchmarking, Eliciting, and Enhancing Role-Playing Abilities of Large Language Models},
author = {Zekun Moore Wang and Zhongyuan Peng and Haoran Que and Jiaheng Liu and Wangchunshu Zhou and Yuhan Wu and Hongcheng Guo and Ruitong Gan and Zehao Ni and Jian Yang and Man Zhang and Zhaoxiang Zhang and Wanli Ouyang and Ke Xu and Stephen W. Huang and Jie Fu and Junran Peng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.00746},
year = {2024}
}
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30 pages, repo at https://github.com/InteractiveNLP-Team/RoleLLM-public