CLAIMay 19, 2025

Role-Playing Evaluation for Large Language Models

arXiv:2505.13157v15 citationsh-index: 3Has Code
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This work addresses the problem of resource-intensive and biased evaluations for LLM role-playing, offering a new benchmark for researchers and developers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing evaluation methods.

The authors tackled the challenge of evaluating large language models' role-playing abilities by introducing Role-Playing Eval (RPEval), a benchmark that assesses capabilities across emotional understanding, decision-making, moral alignment, and in-character consistency, with baseline evaluations provided.

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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