Know Thyself, Know Thy User: Intrinsic Dual-Perspective Reasoning for Role-Playing LLMs
Haotong Sun, Jianye Xie, Bocheng Xu, Yinghui Jiang
Abstract
As role-playing Large Language Models (LLMs) become central to personalized AI, they face a fundamental challenge: balancing character authenticity with user satisfaction. Prior dual-process and dual-perspective approaches address this through prompt-level conditioning, auxiliary modules, or inference-time reflection---realizing duality externally rather than within the core attention mechanism. We introduce the KnowSelf-KnowOther Transformer (KSKT), which embeds dual-perspective reasoning directly into the generation process via dual-stream factorized attention that processes self-understanding and other-understanding through separate streams. This intrinsic integration enables token-level dynamic balance rather than post-hoc reconciliation. On CharacterBench, KSKT achieves 6.2% overall improvement over Qwen3-4B-Thinking. On SOTOPIA, KSKT improves Relationship by 19.3% over the base model---the dimension requiring explicit self-other coordination. These results establish intrinsic dual-perspective reasoning as an effective architectural principle for role-playing systems.
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