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There are numerous examples of societies with extremely stable mix of contrasting opinions. We argue that this stability is a result of an interplay between society network topology adjustment and opinion changing processes. To support this…

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Social network simulation plays a crucial role in addressing various challenges within social science. It offers extensive applications such as state prediction, phenomena explanation, and policy-making support, among others. In this work,…

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Networked environments shape how information embedded in narratives influences individual and group beliefs and behavior. This raises key questions about how group communication around narrative media impacts belief formation and how such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Abha Jha , J. Hunter Priniski , Carolyn Steinle , Fred Morstatter

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Erica Cau , Andrea Failla , Giulio Rossetti

Opinion dynamics (OD) studies how individual opinions evolve and generate collective patterns such as consensus and polarization. While recent work explores OD using populations of LLM-based agents focusing on opinion exchange, it typically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-31 Ryuji Hashimoto , Masahiro Kaneko , Ryosuke Takata , Takehiro Takayanagi , Kiyoshi Izumi

Understanding how an individual changes its attitude, belief, and opinion due to other people's social influences is vital because of its wide implications. A core methodology that is used to study the change of attitude under social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yun-Shiuan Chuang , Timothy T. Rogers

The increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) based conversational agents into everyday life raises critical cognitive and social questions about their potential to influence human opinions. Although previous studies have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Miriam Havin , Timna Wharton Kleinman , Moran Koren , Yaniv Dover , Ariel Goldstein

Large language models have increasingly been proposed as a powerful replacement for classical agent-based models (ABMs) to simulate social dynamics. By using LLMs as a proxy for human behavior, the hope of this new approach is to be able to…

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Trending topics have become a significant part of modern social media, attracting users to participate in discussions of breaking events. However, they also bring in a new channel for poisoning attacks, resulting in negative impacts on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zeyu Zhang , Jianxun Lian , Chen Ma , Yaning Qu , Ye Luo , Lei Wang , Rui Li , Xu Chen , Yankai Lin , Le Wu , Xing Xie , Ji-Rong Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown exceptional results on current benchmarks when working individually. The advancement in their capabilities, along with a reduction in parameter size and inference times, has facilitated the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Alfonso Amayuelas , Xianjun Yang , Antonis Antoniades , Wenyue Hua , Liangming Pan , William Wang

Multiagent social network simulations are an avenue that can bridge the communication gap between the public and private platforms in order to develop solutions to a complex array of issues relating to online safety. While there are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Aditya Surve , Archit Rathod , Mokshit Surana , Gautam Malpani , Aneesh Shamraj , Sainath Reddy Sankepally , Raghav Jain , Swapneel S Mehta

Digital communication has made the public discourse considerably more complex, and new actors and strategies have emerged as a result of this seismic shift. Aside from the often-studied interactions among individuals during opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-01 Luzie Helfmann , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad , Philipp Lorenz-Spreen , Christof Schütte

The increasing capability of Large Language Models to act as human-like social agents raises two important questions in the area of opinion dynamics. First, whether these agents can generate effective arguments that could be injected into…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Simon Martin Breum , Daniel Vædele Egdal , Victor Gram Mortensen , Anders Giovanni Møller , Luca Maria Aiello

Large Language Models (LLMs) have increasingly been utilized in social simulations, where they are often guided by carefully crafted instructions to stably exhibit human-like behaviors during simulations. Nevertheless, we doubt the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zengqing Wu , Run Peng , Shuyuan Zheng , Qianying Liu , Xu Han , Brian Inhyuk Kwon , Makoto Onizuka , Shaojie Tang , Chuan Xiao

Recent advances in large language models (LLM) have enabled richer social simulations, allowing for the study of various social phenomena. However, most recent work has used a more omniscient perspective on these simulations (e.g., single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xuhui Zhou , Zhe Su , Tiwalayo Eisape , Hyunwoo Kim , Maarten Sap

Learning effective policies for real-world problems is still an open challenge for the field of reinforcement learning (RL). The main limitation being the amount of data needed and the pace at which that data can be obtained. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Miguel Suau , Jinke He , Matthijs T. J. Spaan , Frans A. Oliehoek

As Large Language Models (LLMs) transition from static tools to autonomous agents, traditional evaluation benchmarks that measure performance on downstream tasks are becoming insufficient. These methods fail to capture the emergent social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zarreen Reza

This article explores the dynamic influence of computational entities based on multi-agent systems theory (SMA) combined with large language models (LLM), which are characterized by their ability to simulate complex human interactions, as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Carlos Jose Xavier Cruz

Policymakers must often act under conditions of deep uncertainty, such as emergency response, where predicting the specific impacts of a policy apriori is implausible. Large Language Model (LLM) agent simulations have been proposed as tools…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuxuan Li , Sauvik Das , Hirokazu Shirado

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate public opinion and other social phenomena. Most current studies constrain these simulations to multiple-choice or short-answer formats for ease of scoring and comparison, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bolei Ma , Yong Cao , Indira Sen , Anna-Carolina Haensch , Frauke Kreuter , Barbara Plank , Daniel Hershcovich