Identifying and Mitigating Bottlenecks in Role-Playing Agents: A Systematic Study of Disentangling Character Profile Axes

Authors: Yonghyun Jun*, Junhyuk Choi*, Jeonghyun Park, Jihyeong Park, Nicole Geumheon Liu, Hwanhee Lee

* indicates equal contribution.

Venue: EMNLP 2026 Main. Earlier version presented at ICML 2026 Workshop on FAGEN.

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