TRACE Bench: Task-driven Roleplay Agentic Checklist Evaluation
Roleplay evaluation should do more than assign a single score: it should reveal which role requirements were tested, which failed, and which dialogue evidence supports the judgment. We propose TRACE Bench, a task-driven agentic checklist evaluation framework. It decomposes each role profile offline into a fixed checklist, then uses a User Agent to converse naturally with the target roleplay model while privately updating checklist states from model responses. Scores therefore trace back to checklist items and supporting dialogue turns rather than a black-box holistic impression. For coverage cross-validation, we audit released M2 free-dialogue transcripts from the MiniMax Role-play Benchm...
| Authors | Jiahui Zhang, Ziwei Zhang, Yipeng Wang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 31 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 31 July 2026 |
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