Personality-conditioned LLM agents (PC-Agents) are increasingly used in emotional support, social simulation, and role-playing, motivating the development of lifelong agents that remain coherent over extended interactions. A key component of such coherence is personality evolution: agents should undergo plausible, psychology-grounded changes as they experience life events in different contexts. Although prior work shows that LLM personalities can shift under contextual perturbations, how these shifts vary across traits, events, personas, and models remains poorly understood. We study event-induced personality change after 11 major life events, using the Big Five traits as a psychometric anchor and interpreting the resulting trajectories against longitudinal evidence from human personality psychology. Across four diagnostic axes, PC-Agents exhibit measurable trait shifts at similar rates for event-trait pairs with and without documented human change directions. Even when shifts follow the expected direction, their magnitudes usually fall below human effect-size ranges. Gender and cultural-region prompts show little moderating effect, while persona-level dispersion is compressed three- to four-fold relative to human samples. To enable systematic comparison, we introduce BFI-Adapt, a reusable benchmark for scoring the directional fidelity of event-induced personality change, and use it to rank 14 models. A validation suite shows that the measured shifts exceed no-event retest noise, remain stable under independently paraphrased prompts, exhibit limited and model-dependent convergence with scenario-based behavioral choices, and persist across intervening unrelated dialogue. Together, these checks establish the measured trajectories as robust event-conditioned response patterns. Our results suggest that current PC-Agents simulate the mean of human personality dynamics, but not its shape.
大模型智能体的人格演化:11 个生活事件后的特质偏移评测
AI 导读
一项新研究系统评测了大模型智能体(PC-Agents)在经历 11 个重大生活事件后的人格特质变化,以大五人格为锚点对照人类心理学纵向数据。结果显示,智能体在有无人类变化方向记录的事件-特质对上表现出相近的偏移率,偏移幅度普遍低于人类效应量,人格离散度较人类样本压缩 3-4 倍。研究推出可复用基准 BFI-Adapt 用于评分事件诱发人格变化的方向保真度,并据此对 14 个模型进行排名。
HuggingFace Daily Papers(社区热门论文)
41
AI 编辑部评分,满分 100大模型智能体的人格演化:11 个生活事件后的特质偏移评测
一项新研究系统评测了大模型智能体(PC-Agents)在经历 11 个重大生活事件后的人格特质变化,以大五人格为锚点对照人类心理学纵向数据。结果显示,智能体在有无人类变化方向记录的事件-特质对上表现出相近的偏移率,偏移幅度普遍低于人类效应量,人格离散度较人类样本压缩 3-4 倍。研究推出可复用基准 BFI-Adapt 用于评分事件诱发人格变化的方向保真度,并据此对 14 个模型进行排名。
原文 · 保持原样,未翻译原文 · 未翻译
来源:HuggingFace Daily Papers(社区热门论文)· arxiv.org