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This study presents a novel framework for counterfactual user behavior forecasting that combines structural causal models with transformer-based generative artificial intelligence. To model fictitious situations, the method creates causal…

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The advancement of large language model (LLM) based artificial intelligence technologies has been a game-changer, particularly in sentiment analysis. This progress has enabled a shift from highly specialized research environments to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Chaofeng Zhang , Jia Hou , Xueting Tan , Gaolei Li , Caijuan Chen

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping tools. In this paper, we introduce generative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Joon Sung Park , Joseph C. O'Brien , Carrie J. Cai , Meredith Ringel Morris , Percy Liang , Michael S. Bernstein

Understanding emotions is fundamental to human interaction and experience. Humans easily infer emotions from situations or facial expressions, situations from emotions, and do a variety of other affective cognition. How adept is modern AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Kanishk Gandhi , Zoe Lynch , Jan-Philipp Fränken , Kayla Patterson , Sharon Wambu , Tobias Gerstenberg , Desmond C. Ong , Noah D. Goodman

Generative AI systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be measured rather than fundamental to the system's operation. Drawing on hermeneutic theory…

The integration of large language models (LLMs) in economic simulations has significantly enhanced agent-based modeling, yet existing frameworks struggle to capture the interplay between short-term optimization and long-term strategic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Annie Liu , Zane Cao , Lang Chen , Zongxin Xu , Zigan Wang

Contemporary research in social sciences increasingly utilizes state-of-the-art generative language models to annotate or generate content. While these models achieve benchmark-leading performance on common language tasks, their application…

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As general intelligent agents are poised for widespread deployment in diverse households, evaluation tailored to each unique unseen 3D environment has become a critical prerequisite. However, existing benchmarks suffer from severe data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xinyi He , Ying Yang , Chuanjian Fu , Sihan Guo , Songchun Zhu , Lifeng Fan , Zhenliang Zhang , Yujia Peng

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as simulated participants in social science experiments, but their behavior is often unstable and highly sensitive to design choices. Prior evaluations frequently conflate base-model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xuan Liu , Haoyang Shang , Zizhang Liu , Xinyan Liu , Yunze Xiao , Yiwen Tu , Haojian Jin

Climate policy scenario generation and evaluation have traditionally relied on integrated assessment models (IAMs) and expert-driven qualitative analysis. These methods enable stakeholders, such as policymakers and researchers, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rafiu Adekoya Badekale , Adewale Akinfaderin

Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly used in survey contexts to simulate human preferences. While many research endeavors evaluate the quality of synthetic GenAI data by comparing model-generated responses to gold-standard survey results,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sarah Ball , Simeon Allmendinger , Frauke Kreuter , Niklas Kühl

Sentiment analysis is a task that may suffer from a lack of data in certain cases, as the datasets are often generated and annotated by humans. In cases where data is inadequate for training discriminative models, generate models may aid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Rahul Gupta

Sentiment Analysis is the task of classifying documents based on the sentiments expressed in textual form, this can be achieved by using lexical and semantic methods. The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of semantics to…

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With recent and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), understanding the foundation of purposeful behaviour in autonomous agents is crucial for developing safe and efficient systems. While artificial neural networks have…

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This paper describes a novel method for building affectively intelligent human-interactive agents. The method is based on a key sociological insight that has been developed and extensively verified over the last twenty years, but has yet to…

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This article provides the first survey of computational models of emotion in reinforcement learning (RL) agents. The survey focuses on agent/robot emotions, and mostly ignores human user emotions. Emotions are recognized as functional in…

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Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) has emerged as an essential tool for simulating social networks, encompassing diverse phenomena such as information dissemination, influence dynamics, and community formation. However, manually configuring varied…

Agents built on vision-language models increasingly face tasks that demand anticipating future states rather than relying on short-horizon reasoning. Generative world models offer a promising remedy: agents could use them as external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Cheng Qian , Emre Can Acikgoz , Bingxuan Li , Xiusi Chen , Yuji Zhang , Bingxiang He , Qinyu Luo , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tur , Yunzhu Li , Heng Ji

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,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chen Gao , Xiaochong Lan , Zhihong Lu , Jinzhu Mao , Jinghua Piao , Huandong Wang , Depeng Jin , Yong Li