arxivcs.AI2026-07-16
Step-Level Preference Learning for Generative Agents in Social Simulations
Wenchang Gao, Pingyue Sheng, Lanlan Qiu, Yunfei Ma, Jian Zhao, Baicheng Chen, et al.
Large language model (LLM)-based generative agents simulate human behavior through long-horizon decision-making processes that comprise intermediate steps such as planning, memory retrieval, reflection, and action selection. However, fine-grained human annotations of these interm…