MASC: A Multi-Agent Self-Calibration Framework with Latent Construct Alignment for Consistent Client Role-Playing in Psychological Counseling

arXiv:2610.08250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to simulate clients for counselor training and psychological counseling research, but reliable simulation requires clients to remain psychologically coherent across extended interactions. Existing role-playing methods largely rely on static profile prompts and may exhibit persona drift, unrealistic cooperativeness, or inconsistent psychological states, communicative actions, and emotions. Existing evaluations also lack a unified testbed for both stable client characteristics and evolving psychological d

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