The Stackelberg Speaker: Optimizing Persuasive Communication in Social Deduction Games (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches focus on information processing and strategy selection, overlooking the significance of persuasive communication in social deduction games. |
| Approach: | They propose a reinforcement learning framework that trains agents to optimize influential utterances for persuasive impact by formalizing turn-based dialogue as a Stackelberg competition . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines across four social deduction benchmarks and shows that it is effective in persuasive communication. |
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