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MIMESIS: Learning User Simulators as Training Environments for Interactive Agents

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Briefings

MIMESIS is a purpose-built user simulator trained on human conversations with explicit reasoning supervision, featuring 13 realistic behavioral patterns. The 9B model achieves a SOUL-Index of 65.7, surpassing the strongest frontier model. It improves behavioral fidelity by 13.4 points and reduces Turing distance by 3.6 points compared to Claude-Opus-5. Training an agent with MIMESIS yields better performance than GPT-5.5 across eight environments, demonstrating stronger generalization to new user simulators.

Key points

• MIMESIS is a purpose-built user simulator trained on human conversations with explicit reasoning supervision.
• The 9B model achieves a SOUL-Index of 65.7, surpassing the strongest frontier model.

Context

Training interactive language agents requires rich user interactions, but human feedback collection is expensive and difficult to scale. Most agent-training frameworks rely on off-the-shelf assistant LLMs, which can be overly cooperative and behaviorally homogeneous compared to real users. MIMESIS addresses this by providing a scalable alternative with realistic behavioral patterns.

Limitations

Evidence covers only the development and evaluation of MIMESIS and its agent training methods. Specific limitations of the 9B model's performance on unseen user simulators beyond the nine environments tested are not detailed. The study does not report long-term stability or deployment feasibility.

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