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From Role-Play to Drama-Interaction: An LLM Solution

arXiv 2405.14231 ↗First posted 23 May 2024cs.CLcited by 42

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Drama is a form of storytelling inspired by human creativity, proceeding with a predefined storyline, carrying emotions and thoughts. This paper introduces LLM-based interactive drama, which endows traditional drama with an unprecedented immersion, where a person is allowed to walk into it and interact with the characters and scenes. We define this new artistic genre by 6 essential elements-plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle and interaction-and study the entire pipeline to forge a backbone drama LLM to drive the playing process, which is challenged by limited drama resources, uncontrollable narrative development, and complicated instruction following. We propose Narrative Chain to offer finer control over the narrative progression during interaction with players; Auto-Drama to synthesize drama scripts given arbitrary stories; Sparse Instruction Tuning to allow the model to follow sophisticated instructions. We manually craft 3 scripts, Detective Conan, Harry Potter, Romeo and Juliet, and design a 5-dimension principle to evaluate the drama LLM comprehensively.

Key facts. Cited by 42 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 11 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 May 2024.

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  1. 2023Baichuan 2: Open Large-scale Language Modelscited by 670
  2. 2023Character-LLM: A Trainable Agent for Role-Playingcited by 339
  3. 2022Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionalscited by 191
  4. 2024CharacterEval: A Chinese Benchmark for Role-Playing Conversational Agent Evaluationcited by 143
  5. 2024Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignmentcited by 104
  6. 2022Help me write a poem: Instruction Tuning as a Vehicle for Collaborative Poetry Writingcited by 71
  7. 2022Meet Your Favorite Character: Open-domain Chatbot Mimicking Fictional Characters with only a Few Utterancescited by 32
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  9. 2023Empower Nested Boolean Logic via Self-Supervised Curriculum Learningcited by 7
  10. 2019Exploring AI Futures Through Role Playcited by 3
  11. 2022A Survey on Artificial Intelligence for Music Generation: Agents, Domains and Perspectivescited by 3

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  1. 2024PersonaGym: Evaluating Persona Agents and LLMscited by 97
  2. 2024From Individual to Society: A Survey on Social Simulation Driven by Large Language Model-based Agentscited by 82
  3. 2024The Oscars of AI Theater: A Survey on Role-Playing with Language Modelscited by 48
  4. 2025A Survey on Personalized Alignment -- The Missing Piece for Large Language Models in Real-World Applicationscited by 42
  5. 2024SweetieChat: A Strategy-Enhanced Role-playing Framework for Diverse Scenarios Handling Emotional Support Agentcited by 24
  6. 2025Towards a Design Guideline for RPA Evaluation: A Survey of Large Language Model-Based Role-Playing Agentscited by 22
  7. 2024RoleBreak: Character Hallucination as a Jailbreak Attack in Role-Playing Systemscited by 21
  8. 2026A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulationcited by 18
  9. 2024Multi-expert Prompting Improves Reliability, Safety, and Usefulness of Large Language Modelscited by 14
  10. 2025Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoningcited by 14
  11. 2025BookWorld: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Creative Story Generationcited by 12
  12. 2025Voila: Voice-Language Foundation Models for Real-Time Autonomous Interaction and Voice Role-Playcited by 10
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  2. 2025PsyPlay: Personality-Infused Role-Playing Conversational Agentscited by 9
  3. 2025Towards Enhanced Immersion and Agency for LLM-based Interactive Dramacited by 9
  4. 2025Multi-Actor Generative Artificial Intelligence as a Game Enginecited by 8
  5. 2025The Rise of Darkness: Safety-Utility Trade-Offs in Role-Playing Dialogue Agentscited by 7
  6. 2025Evaluating, Synthesizing, and Enhancing for Customer Support Conversationcited by 7
  7. 2025HyCoRA: Hyper-Contrastive Role-Adaptive Learning for Role-Playingcited by 7
  8. 2024PersLLM: A Personified Training Approach for Large Language Modelscited by 6
  9. 2024X-TURING: Towards an Enhanced and Efficient Turing Test for Long-Term Dialogue Agentscited by 6
  10. 2025AI Agent Behavioral Sciencecited by 6
  11. 2024The Drama Machine: Simulating Character Development with LLM Agentscited by 5
  12. 2024SHARP: Unlocking Interactive Hallucination via Stance Transfer in Role-Playing LLMscited by 5
  13. 2025DPRF: A Generalizable Dynamic Persona Refinement Framework for Optimizing Behavior Alignment Between Personalized LLM Role-Playing Agents and Humanscited by 5
  14. 2024Game Development as Human-LLM Interactioncited by 4
  15. 2025When Harry Meets Superman: The Role of The Interlocutor in Persona-Based Dialogue Generationcited by 4
  16. 2024Instruction-Driven Game Engine: A Poker Case Studycited by 3
  17. 2025Plug-and-Play Dramaturge: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Iterative Narrative Script Refinement via Collaborative LLM Agentscited by 2
  18. 2025RxSafeBench: Identifying Medication Safety Issues of Large Language Models in Simulated Consultationcited by 2
  19. 2026Role-Playing Agents Driven by Large Language Models: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Trendscited by 2
  20. 2024Open Role-Playing with Delta-Enginescited by 1
  21. 2025Narrative-Driven Travel Planning: Geoculturally-Grounded Script Generation with Evolutionary Itinerary Optimizationcited by 1
  22. 2025Free Lunch for User Experience: Crowdsourcing Agents for Scalable User Studiescited by 1
  23. 2025HAMLET: A Hierarchical and Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Live Embodied Theatricscited by 1
  24. 2025OPEN-THEATRE: An Open-Source Toolkit for LLM-based Interactive Dramacited by 1
  25. 2025Engagement Undermines Safety: How Stereotypes and Toxicity Shape Humor in Language Modelscited by 1
  26. 2026Empowering 9-1-1 Calltaking Training with Generative AI: Experiences and Lessons Learnedcited by 1
  27. 2025AgentCTG: Harnessing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Fine-Grained Precise Control in Text Generationcited by 0
  28. 2026MERRY: Semantically Decoupled Evaluation of Multimodal Emotional and Role Consistencies of Role-Playing Agentscited by 0
  29. 2026AI-Model Network: Concept, Current State and Futurecited by 0
  30. 2026MedGame: Storytelling Gamification Empowered by Large Language Models for Medical Educationcited by 0