Reinforcement fine-tuning improves LLM social reading more than game wins

Fine-tuned language model agents learn to infer hidden roles and predict others' decisions, but directly optimizing win–loss outcomes proves unreliable for acquiring general social deduction skills.

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Lingzhe Zhang · Yunpeng Zhai · Tong Jia · Kening Zheng · Chiming Duan · Minghua He · +4 more

Peking University · Alibaba Group · University of Illinois Chicago

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Reinforcement fine-tuning improves LLMs' social reading and influence in deduction games, but not when only terminal outcomes are optimized.

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