比较人类角色扮演者与LLM模拟来访者在在线咨询培训中的表现：咨询模式分析
Comparing Human Role-Players and LLM-Simulated Clients in Online Counselling Training: An Analysis of Counselling Patterns
Eric Rudolph, Philipp Steigerwald, Jens Albrecht
AI 速览：该研究比较新手咨询师与人类角色扮演来访者及LLM模拟来访者互动时的咨询沟通模式，以评估LLM模拟来访者在教学角色扮演中的可行性与差异。
This study investigates the capabilities of Large Language Models to simulate counselling clients in educational role-plays in comparison to human role-players. Initially, we recorded role-playing sessions, where novice counsellors interacted with human peers acting as clients, followed by role-plays between humans and clients simulated by Mistrals Mixtral 8x7b using 4-bit quantization. These interactions were analysed with a counselling communication pattern system at sentence level. We investigated two key questions: (1) to what extent LLM-generated responses replicate authentic conversational dynamics and (2) whether counsellors' communication behaviour differs when interacting with human versus LLM-simulated clients. The findings highlight both similarities and differences in the application of counselling patterns across scenarios, showing the potential of LLM-based role-playing exercises to enhance counselling competencies and to identify areas for further refinement in virtual client simulations.