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RoleWorld introduces functional role abstractions for LLM agent world modeling

Researchers have introduced RoleWorld, a novel symbolic approach to world modeling for LLM agents. This method utilizes reusable prototypes and environment-specific parameter values as functional role abstractions to represent object behaviors in interactions. The system extracts role prototypes and transition rules from interaction trajectories, enabling an actor LLM to generalize to new environments with altered object behaviors without requiring LLM parameter updates. Experiments on the MARS benchmark demonstrated RoleWorld's effectiveness in robust generalization. AI

IMPACT This research could improve the ability of AI agents to generalize and adapt to new environments by enhancing their world modeling capabilities.

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RoleWorld introduces functional role abstractions for LLM agent world modeling

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Boyuan Xiao, Pu Wang, Ji Feng, Yao-Xiang Ding ·

    RoleWorld: Knowledge Transfer in World Modeling with Functional Role Abstractions

    arXiv:2610.13172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable large language model (LLM) agents to anticipate action effects and make informed decisions. For generalization, it is desirable for such world models to transfer efficiently to new environments with similar inter…