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Realistic and interactive traffic simulation is essential for training and evaluating autonomous driving systems. However, most existing data-driven simulation methods rely on static initialization or log-replay data, limiting their ability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhenghao Peng , Yuxin Liu , Bolei Zhou

Simulating society with large language models (LLMs), we argue, requires more than generating plausible behavior; it demands cognitively grounded reasoning that is structured, revisable, and traceable. LLM-based agents are increasingly used…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Chance Jiajie Li , Jiayi Wu , Zhenze Mo , Ao Qu , Yuhan Tang , Kaiya Ivy Zhao , Yulu Gan , Jie Fan , Jiangbo Yu , Jinhua Zhao , Paul Liang , Luis Alonso , Kent Larson

LLM-based agents can autonomously accomplish complex tasks across various domains. However, to further cultivate capabilities such as adaptive behavior and long-term decision-making, training on static datasets built from human-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yuchen Huang , Sijia Li , Minghao Liu , Wei Liu , Shijue Huang , Zhiyuan Fan , Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung

The manual design of scenarios for Air Traffic Control (ATC) training is a demanding and time-consuming bottleneck that limits the diversity of simulations available to controllers. To address this, we introduce a novel, end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Dewi Sid William Gould , George De Ath , Ben Carvell , Nick Pepper

Autonomous agents empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone significant improvements, enabling them to generalize across a broad spectrum of tasks. However, in real-world scenarios, cooperation among individuals is often…

Scene graphs have emerged as a structured and serializable environment representation for grounded spatial reasoning with Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we propose SG^2, an iterative Schema-Guided Scene-Graph reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yiye Chen , Harpreet Sawhney , Nicholas Gydé , Yanan Jian , Jack Saunders , Patricio Vela , Ben Lundell

Accurate trajectory prediction is fundamental to autonomous driving, as it underpins safe motion planning and collision avoidance in complex environments. However, existing benchmark datasets suffer from a pronounced long-tail distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ruining Yang , Yi Xu , Yixiao Chen , Yun Fu , Lili Su

Evaluating AI systems that interact with humans requires understanding their behavior across diverse user populations, but collecting representative human data is often expensive or infeasible, particularly for novel technologies or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Davide Paglieri , Logan Cross , William A. Cunningham , Joel Z. Leibo , Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

Simulation-based theory development has yielded powerful insights into collective performance by linking social structure to emergent outcomes, yet it has struggled to extend to collective creativity. Creativity is hard to capture purely at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mirza Nayeem Ahmed , Raiyan Abdul Baten

Highly autonomous generative agents powered by large language models promise to simulate intricate social behaviors in virtual societies. However, achieving real-time interactions with humans at a low computational cost remains challenging.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zhao Kaiya , Michelangelo Naim , Jovana Kondic , Manuel Cortes , Jiaxin Ge , Shuying Luo , Guangyu Robert Yang , Andrew Ahn

Can we simulate a sandbox society with generative agents to model human behavior, thereby reducing the over-reliance on real human trials for assessing public policies? In this work, we investigate the feasibility of simulating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Abe Bohan Hou , Hongru Du , Yichen Wang , Jingyu Zhang , Zixiao Wang , Paul Pu Liang , Daniel Khashabi , Lauren Gardner , Tianxing He

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

This work presents a methodology for modeling and predicting human behavior in settings with N humans interacting in highly multimodal scenarios (i.e. where there are many possible highly-distinct futures). A motivating example includes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Boris Ivanovic , Edward Schmerling , Karen Leung , Marco Pavone

The advantages of temporal networks in capturing complex dynamics, such as diffusion and contagion, has led to breakthroughs in real world systems across numerous fields. In the case of human behavior, face-to-face interaction networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nicolò Alessandro Girardini , Antonio Longa , Gaia Trebucchi , Giulia Cencetti , Andrea Passerini , Bruno Lepri

Recent progress in generative models has stimulated significant innovations in many fields, such as image generation and chatbots. Despite their success, these models often produce sketchy and misleading solutions for complex multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zeyang Liu , Xinrui Yang , Shiguang Sun , Long Qian , Lipeng Wan , Xingyu Chen , Xuguang Lan

We are amidst an explosion of artificial intelligence research, particularly around large language models (LLMs). These models have a range of applications across domains like medicine, finance, commonsense knowledge graphs, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Garrett Allen , Gaole He , Ujwal Gadiraju

Social network simulation is developed to provide a comprehensive understanding of social networks in the real world, which can be leveraged for a wide range of applications such as group behavior emergence, policy optimization, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yunyao Zhang , Zikai Song , Hang Zhou , Wenfeng Ren , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang

Traditional agent-based urban mobility simulations often rely on rigid rulebased systems that struggle to capture the complexity, adaptability, and behavioral diversity inherent in human travel decision making. Inspired by recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qi Liu , Can Li , Wanjing Ma

Modeling crowds has many important applications in games and computer animation. Inspired by the emergent following effect in real-life crowd scenarios, in this work, we develop a method for implicitly grouping moving agents. We achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiao-Cheng Liao , Wei-Neng Chen , Xiang-Ling Chen , Yi Mei

Social norms play a crucial role in guiding agents towards understanding and adhering to standards of behavior, thus reducing social conflicts within multi-agent systems (MASs). However, current LLM-based (or generative) MASs lack the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Siyue Ren , Zhiyao Cui , Ruiqi Song , Zhen Wang , Shuyue Hu