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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated an unprecedented ability to simulate human-like social behaviors, making them useful tools for simulating complex social systems. However, it remains unclear to what extent these simulations…

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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have spurred growing interest in using LLM-integrated agents for social simulation, often under the implicit assumption that realistic population dynamics will emerge once role-specified…

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Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to face hallucination issues due to the data they trained on often containing human bias; whether this is reflected in the decision-making process of LLM Agents remains under-explored. As LLM…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuan Liu , Jie Zhang , Haoyang Shang , Song Guo , Chengxu Yang , Quanyan Zhu

Large Language Models (LLMs) show significant potential in economic and strategic interactions, where communication via natural language is often prevalent. This raises key questions: Do LLMs behave rationally? How do they perform compared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Eilam Shapira , Omer Madmon , Itamar Reinman , Samuel Joseph Amouyal , Roi Reichart , Moshe Tennenholtz

In Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), agents are designed with social capabilities, allowing them to understand and reason about social concepts such as norms when interacting with others (e.g., inter-robot interactions). In Normative MAS (NorMAS),…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Oishik Chowdhury , Anushka Debnath , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

Large language models make agent-based simulation more behaviorally expressive, but they also sharpen a basic methodological tension: fluent, human-like output is not, by itself, evidence for theory. We evaluate what an LLM-driven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tai-Quan Peng , Yuan Tian , Songsong Liang , Dazhen Deng , Yingcai Wu

Large language models (LLMs) enable conversational agents (CAs) to express distinctive personalities, raising new questions about how such designs shape user perceptions. This study investigates how personality expression levels and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hasibur Rahman , Smit Desai

The ability to communicate uncertainty, risk, and limitation is crucial for the safety of large language models. However, current evaluations of these abilities rely on simple calibration, asking whether the language generated by the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Kaitlyn Zhou , Jena D. Hwang , Xiang Ren , Nouha Dziri , Dan Jurafsky , Maarten Sap

As large language models (LLMs) increasingly power conversational agents, understanding how they model users' emotional states is critical for ethical deployment. Inspired by emotion wheels -- a psychological framework that argues emotions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bo Zhao , Maya Okawa , Eric J. Bigelow , Rose Yu , Tomer Ullman , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Hidenori Tanaka

Animating and simulating crowds using an agent-based approach is a well-established area where every agent in the crowd is individually controlled such that global human-like behaviour emerges. We observe that human navigation and movement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yibo Liu , Liam Shatzel , Brandon Haworth , Teseo Schneider

Social robots aim to establish long-term bonds with humans through engaging conversation. However, traditional conversational approaches, reliant on scripted interactions, often fall short in maintaining engaging conversations. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zining Wang , Paul Reisert , Eric Nichols , Randy Gomez

Recent progress on large language models (LLMs) has enabled dialogue agents to generate highly naturalistic and plausible text. However, current LLM language generation focuses on responding accurately to questions and requests with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Joey Hong , Jessica Lin , Anca Dragan , Sergey Levine

Of the many commercial and scientific opportunities provided by large language models (LLMs; including Open AI's ChatGPT, Meta's LLaMA, and Anthropic's Claude), one of the more intriguing applications has been the simulation of human…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Gabriel Simmons , Christopher Hare

User sentiment on social media reveals the underlying social trends, crises, and needs. Researchers have analyzed users' past messages to trace the evolution of sentiments and reconstruct sentiment dynamics. However, predicting the imminent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Fanhang Man , Huandong Wang , Jianjie Fang , Zhaoyi Deng , Baining Zhao , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

A common problem for agents operating in real-world environments is that the response of an environment to their actions may be non-deterministic and observed through noise. This renders environmental state and progress towards completing a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 William E Bishop , Alice Li , Christopher Rawles , Oriana Riva

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit expert-level performance in tasks across a wide range of different domains. Ethical issues raised by LLMs and the need to align future versions makes it important to know how state of the art models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Guilherme F. C. F. Almeida , José Luiz Nunes , Neele Engelmann , Alex Wiegmann , Marcelo de Araújo

The prediction has served as a crucial scientific method in modern social studies. With the recent advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), efforts have been made to leverage LLMs to predict the human features in social life, such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Kaiqi Yang , Hang Li , Hongzhi Wen , Tai-Quan Peng , Jiliang Tang , Hui Liu

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have extended their capabilities from basic text processing to complex reasoning tasks, including legal interpretation, argumentation, and strategic interaction. However, empirical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Asutosh Hota , Jussi P. P. Jokinen

Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated strong reasoning and role-playing capabilities, opening new opportunities for agent-based social simulations. However, most existing agents' implementations are scenario-tailored,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuwei Yan , Jinghua Piao , Xiaochong Lan , Chenyang Shao , Pan Hui , Yong Li

Accurately simulating human opinion dynamics is crucial for understanding a variety of societal phenomena, including polarization and the spread of misinformation. However, the agent-based models (ABMs) commonly used for such simulations…