User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation

arXiv:2501.04410v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: User simulation is an emerging interdisciplinary topic with multiple critical applications in the era of Generative AI. It involves creating an intelligent agent that mimics the actions of a human user interacting with an AI system, enabling researchers to model and analyze user behaviour, generate synthetic data for training, and evaluate interactive AI systems in a controlled and reproducible manner. Because of its broad scope, research on th