@article{asurveyonllmbasedconversationalusersimul,
  title = {A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation},
  author = {Bo Ni and Leyao Wang and Yu Wang and Branislav Kveton and Franck Dernoncourt and Yu Xia and Hongjie Chen and Reuben Leura and Samyadeep Basu and Subhojyoti Mukherjee and Puneet Mathur and Nesreen Ahmed and Junda Wu and Li Li and Huixin Zhang and Ruiyi Zhang and Tong Yu and Sungchul Kim and Jiuxiang Gu and Zhengzhong Tu and Alexa Siu and Zichao Wang and David Seunghyun Yoon and Nedim Lipka and Namyong Park and Zihao Lin and Trung Bui and Yue Zhao and Tyler Derr and Ryan A. Rossi},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.24977},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24977},
}