Preference-grouped reinforcement learning improves social adaptation in simulated conversations

The authors train an LLM agent on whole-conversation satisfaction, normalizing rewards across simulated users with similar hidden preferences.

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Jingquan Wang · Jun Yin · Xu Han · Yongsheng Mei · Jie Hao · Bin Guo

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Wang and colleagues introduce preference-batched group relative policy optimization, or PB-GRPO, for training conversational agents to infer and accommodate users’ unstated preferences over multiple turns.

The authors frame social adaptation as multi-turn reinforcement learning.

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PB-GRPO improves LLM social behavior by combining persona-driven simulation with preference-batched GRPO training.

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