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SocialCoach: Personalized Social Skill Learning with RL-based Agentic Tutoring and Practice

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SocialCoach: Personalized Social Skill Learning with RL-based Agentic Tutoring and Practice

arXiv:2606.04155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social skills such as negotiation and leadership are crucial for personal and professional success in today's interconnected world. However, scalable and effective training remains a significant challenge due to the scarcity of expert coaching. In this paper, we introduce SocialCoach, a holistic LLM-powered agentic tutoring system for personalized social skill development at scale. First, SocialCoach automatically constructs a pedagogically-grounded, theory-to-practice knowledge corpus from diverse expert sources, leveraging a multi-agent pipel

Why this matters
Why now

Advances in large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems are reaching a maturity level where complex tasks like personalized social skill tutoring can be automated and scaled.

Why it’s important

This breakthrough offers a scalable solution to a long-standing challenge in human development, making previously exclusive expert coaching accessible and potentially reshaping education and professional training.

What changes

The availability of personalized, AI-driven social skill training changes how individuals can develop crucial soft skills, democratizing access to personal and professional development typically limited by cost and availability of human experts.

Winners
  • · AI-driven education platforms
  • · Individuals seeking skill development
  • · Human capital development sectors
  • · LLM developers
Losers
  • · Traditional social skills coaches
  • · Standardized training programs
  • · Expensive bespoke coaching services
Second-order effects
Direct

Widespread adoption of AI-tutoring in soft skill development.

Second

Improved social fluency across the workforce and greater equity in access to professional development.

Third

Potential for AI to become a core component of educational systems globally, leading to more responsive and personalized learning paths from an early age.

Editorial confidence: 90 / 100 · Structural impact: 60 / 100
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