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From Memory to Behavior: A Behavior-Aware Role-Playing Framework for Social Media Influencers

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arXiv:2609.21349 (cs)
[Submitted on 18 Sep 2026]

Title:From Memory to Behavior: A Behavior-Aware Role-Playing Framework for Social Media Influencers

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Abstract:Large language models have shown strong potential as role-playing agents for real individuals, yet faithful impersonating remains challenging. Existing in-context learning-based methods fail to capture how individuals react under different situations. In addition, LLM-based evaluation is difficult for obscure individuals. To address these challenges, we propose Situation--Internal state--Behavior Persona method to incorporate situation-dependent behavioral strategies. We further design an evaluation protocol that provides LLM evaluators with references about the impersonated individual. We evaluate our approach on a newly constructed dataset for the task of generating replies on social media. Experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art ICL-based baselines, while our evaluation protocol achieves moderate correlation with human judgment. Besides, experiments on fictional-character benchmarks demonstrate that our proposed method is applicable beyond the social media setting. These findings suggest that incorporating behavioral information broadly improves the fidelity of role-playing for real individuals on social media or fictional characters.
Comments: Accepted by EMNLP 2026 Findings
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.21349 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2609.21349v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.21349
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From: Ji-Lun Peng [view email]
[v1] Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:06:21 UTC (1,710 KB)
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