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New ACTOR framework enhances AI literary role-playing agents

Researchers have developed ACTOR, a framework designed to improve literary role-playing agents by focusing on non-dialogue behaviors and their temporal evolution within a story. The system extracts both dialogue and relevant non-dialogue actions, structuring them using a Thought-Action-Observation format and organizing them chronologically. A new training method, Regularized Preference Optimization (RPO), was employed to enhance the models' ability to generate contextually plausible and persona-consistent actions, significantly improving accuracy in predicting subsequent character behaviors. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more sophisticated and believable AI characters in interactive storytelling and gaming applications.

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New ACTOR framework enhances AI literary role-playing agents

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuxiang Gao, Tianjie Ju, Zheng Wu, Zongru Wu, Hao Fei ·

    ACTOR: Action-Centered Temporal Organization for Literary Role-Playing Agents

    arXiv:2611.03184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language agents for literary role-playing are typically modeled around dialogue generation, leaving characters' non-dialogue behaviors and their dynamic evolution over story time underrepresented. In this paper, we propose ACT…