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ArcANE: Do Role-Playing Language Agents Stay in Character at the Right Time?

arXiv:2606.05553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Role-playing language agents (RPLAs) should play characters whose values and behavior evolve as the story progresses, not maintain a fixed persona. Existing benchmarks measure factual recall at a given chapter, not whether responses align with the character's psychological trajectory, especially in scenarios the source text never explores. We introduce ArcANE (Arc-Aware Narrative Evaluation), an automatically constructed benchmark spanning 17 novels and 80 principal characters. A Character Arc segments the narrative into phases along a psycholog…

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