Revealing and Mitigating the Challenge of Detecting Character Knowledge Errors in LLM Role-Playing
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) role-playing has gained widespread attention, where the authentic character knowledge is crucial for constructing realistic LLM role-playing agents. However, existing works usually overlook the exploration of LLMs' ability to detect characters' known knowledge errors (KKE) and unknown knowledge errors (UKE) while playing roles, which would lead to low-quality automatic construction of character trainable corpus. In this paper, we propose a probing dataset to evaluate LLMs' ability to detect errors in KKE and UKE. The results indicate that even the latest LLMs struggle to effectively detect these two types of errors, especially
when it comes to familiar knowledge. We experimented with various reasoning strategies and propose an agent-based reasoning method, Self-Recollection and Self-Doubt (S$^2$RD), to further explore the potential for improving error detection capabilities. Experiments show that our method effectively improves the LLMs' ability to detect error character knowledge, but it remains an issue that requires ongoing attention
Paper Type: Long
Research Area: Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Research Area Keywords: cognitive modeling
Contribution Types: NLP engineering experiment, Data resources
Languages Studied: English
Submission Number: 7624
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