# Google Research — ConvApparel: Measuring and bridging the realism gap in user simulators

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-04-09T11:22:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/convapparel-measuring-and-bridging-the-realism-gap-in-user-simulators/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1348-convapparel-measuring-and-bridging-the-realism-gap-in-user-simulators

Google Research introduces ConvApparel, a dataset and evaluation framework to measure and bridge the realism gap in LLM-based user simulators, using a dual-agent protocol and counterfactual validation.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/convapparel-measuring-and-bridging-the-realism-gap-in-user-simulators/:

> We introduce ConvApparel, a new human-AI conversation dataset and a comprehensive evaluation framework designed to quantify the "realism gap" in LLM-based user simulators and improve the training of robust conversational agents.

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