Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed as conversational agents in healthcare (Mehandru et al., 2024), yet many existing systems treat roles as static prompts and rely on one-shot safety filters.In such designs, it can be difficult to enforce longhorizon responsibilities, stable role identity, and realistic communication behavior.We propose a Self-Evolving LLM Agent that learns from role-based social experience and explicitly models communicator-level individual traits informed by prior communication questionnaires and clinical literature.The agent integrates (i) perception and action conditioned on both hard role responsibility norms and soft trait-conditioned style preferences, (ii) structured memory storing norm-annotated trajectories and identity states, (iii) dual-layer reflection that combines short-term responsibility diagnosis with long-term identity drift detection via trait consistency and trait-norm compatibility checks, and (iv) self-evolution that updates system prompts and identity parameters through preference-style optimization with AI feedback (Fernando et al., 2023;Jiang et al., 2024).We instantiate the framework in a multi-role healthcare sandbox and evaluate outpatient medication review, emergency triage, and discharge planning.Across our simulated tasks, self-evolution is associated with lower severity-weighted norm risk, more stable role-identity signals, and improved socialembeddedness metrics (including trust-like signals) (Saffarizadeh et al., 2024) relative to strong static baselines.
Institutions: Wenzhou University, East China Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Health Informatics
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166818071