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Role-playing (RP) agents rely on behavioral profiles to act consistently across diverse narrative contexts, yet existing profiles are largely unstructured, non-executable, and weakly validated, leading to brittle agent behavior. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Letian Peng , Kun Zhou , Longfei Yun , Yupeng Hou , Jingbo Shang

Modeling latent character states is crucial for consistent and engaging role-playing (RP) with large language models (LLMs). Yet, existing prompting-based approaches mainly capture surface actions, often failing to track the latent states…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Letian Peng , Yupeng Hou , Kun Zhou , Jingbo Shang

System prompts provide a lightweight yet powerful mechanism for conditioning large language models (LLMs) at inference time. While prior work has focused on English-only settings, real-world deployments benefit from having a single prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lechen Zhang , Yusheng Zhou , Tolga Ergen , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Moontae Lee , David Jurgens

Character description generation is an important capability for narrative-focused applications such as summarization, story analysis, and character-driven simulations. However, generating accurate character descriptions from long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Argyrios Papoudakis , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

Recent advances in scene-based video generation enable coherent visual narratives from structured prompts, yet a key aspect of storytelling -- character-driven dialogue and speech -- remains underexplored. We present a modular pipeline that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taewon Kang , Ming C. Lin

Role-play prompting is known to steer the behavior of language models by injecting a persona into the prompt, improving their zero-shot reasoning capabilities. However, such improvements are inconsistent across different tasks or instances.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Junseok Kim , Nakyeong Yang , Kyomin Jung

Due to their architecture and vast pre-training data, large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong text classification performance. However, LLM output - here, the category assigned to a text - depends heavily on the wording of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Kylie L. Anglin , Stephanie Milan , Brittney Hernandez , Claudia Ventura

Personalized Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be an effective way to create more engaging and enjoyable user-AI interactions. While previous studies have explored using prompts to elicit specific personality traits in LLMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shi-Wei Dai , Yan-Wei Shie , Tsung-Huan Yang , Lun-Wei Ku , Yung-Hui Li

Background and Context. The increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) in computing education presents an emerging challenge in understanding how students use LLMs and craft prompts to solve computational tasks. Prior research…

Reasoning is a fundamental component of language understanding. Recent prompting techniques, such as chain of thought, have consistently improved LLMs' performance on various reasoning tasks. Nevertheless, there is still little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Haritz Puerto , Martin Tutek , Somak Aditya , Xiaodan Zhu , Iryna Gurevych

Recent studies demonstrate that prompting a role-playing persona to an LLM improves reasoning capability. However, assigning an adequate persona is difficult since LLMs are extremely sensitive to assigned prompts; thus, inaccurately defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Junseok Kim , Nakyeong Yang , Kyomin Jung

Persona prompting is widely used to steer large language models, yet its practical value remains unclear. Prior work often evaluates persona prompting using aggregate scores, making it difficult to determine whether expert-role prompting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shuai Xiao , Su Liu , Weikai Zhou , Jialun Wu , Xinjie He , Zhiyuan Lin , Qiyang Xie

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in complex reasoning tasks but struggle with consistent rule application, exception handling, and explainability, particularly in domains like legal analysis that require both natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Albert Sadowski , Jarosław A. Chudziak

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for multi-agent systems. However, existing research on the behaviour of LLM-based multi-agents relies on ad hoc prompts and lacks a principled policy perspective. Different from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongbo Bo , Jingyu Hu , Weiru Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) promise to transform interactive games by enabling non-player characters (NPCs) to sustain unscripted dialogue. Yet it remains unclear whether constrained prompts actually improve player experience. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Vanessa Figueiredo , David Elumeze

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable potential across various tasks by conditioning on prompts. However, the quality of different human-written prompts leads to substantial discrepancies in LLMs' performance, and improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Yihong Dong , Kangcheng Luo , Xue Jiang , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in both scientific research and practical applications. Existing studies have demonstrated the state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance of LLMs in various natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yajing Wang , Zongwei Luo

Recent advances in text-to-image generation models have unlocked vast potential for visual creativity. However, the users that use these models struggle with the generation of consistent characters, a crucial aspect for numerous real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Omri Avrahami , Amir Hertz , Yael Vinker , Moab Arar , Shlomi Fruchter , Ohad Fried , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

While Large Language Model (LLM) role-playing agents have advanced rapidly, it remains unclear which profile elements genuinely drive role-playing quality. To bridge this gap, we introduce a systematic diagnostic framework that disentangles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yonghyun Jun , Junhyuk Choi , Jeonghyun Park , Jihyeong Park , Liu Nicole Geumheon , Hwanhee Lee

Effective prompt design is essential for improving the planning capabilities of large language model (LLM)-driven agents. However, existing structured prompting strategies are typically limited to single-agent, plan-only settings, and often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bruce Yang , Xinfeng He , Huan Gao , Yifan Cao , Xiaofan Li , David Hsu
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