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Agentic task-solving with Large Language Models (LLMs) requires multi-turn, multi-step interactions, often involving complex function calls and dynamic user-agent exchanges. Existing simulation-based data generation methods for such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xingshan Zeng , Weiwen Liu , Lingzhi Wang , Liangyou Li , Fei Mi , Yasheng Wang , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Understanding and replicating human mobility requires not only spatial-temporal accuracy but also an awareness of the cognitive hierarchy underlying real-world travel decisions. Traditional agent-based or deep learning models can reproduce…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qiumeng Li , Chunhou Ji , Xinyue Liu

This paper introduces discourse_simulator, an open-source framework that combines LLMs with agent-based modelling. It offers a new way to simulate how public attitudes toward immigration change over time in response to salient events like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Deepak John Reji

The structural properties of naturally arising social graphs are extensively studied to understand their evolution. Prior approaches for modeling network dynamics typically rely on rule-based models, which lack realism and generalizability,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jiarui Ji , Runlin Lei , Jialing Bi , Zhewei Wei , Xu Chen , Yankai Lin , Xuchen Pan , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

Building agents with adaptive behavior in cooperative tasks stands as a paramount goal in the realm of multi-agent systems. Current approaches to developing cooperative agents rely primarily on learning-based methods, whose policy…

This study proposes a framework that employs personality prompting with Large Language Models to generate verbal and nonverbal behaviors for virtual agents based on personality traits. Focusing on extraversion, we evaluated the system in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Bin Han , Deuksin Kwon , Spencer Lin , Kaleen Shrestha , Jonathan Gratch

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and agent technologies offer promising solutions to the simulation of social science experiments, but the availability of data of real-world population required by many of them still poses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yuqi Bai , Kun Sun , Huishi Yin

As virtual agents become increasingly prevalent in human-computer interaction, generating realistic and contextually appropriate gestures in real-time remains a significant challenge. While neural rendering techniques have made substantial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Saif Punjwani , Larry Heck

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed agent-agent and human-agent interaction by enabling software, physical, and simulation agents to communicate and deliberate through natural language. Yet fluent language use does not by itself…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Önder Gürcan , Moharram Challenger

We discuss the emerging new opportunity for building feedback-rich computational models of social systems using generative artificial intelligence. Referred to as Generative Agent-Based Models (GABMs), such individual-level models utilize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Navid Ghaffarzadegan , Aritra Majumdar , Ross Williams , Niyousha Hosseinichimeh

Human mobility is inextricably linked to social issues such as traffic congestion, energy consumption, and public health; however, privacy concerns restrict access to mobility data. Recently, research have utilized Large Language Models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xuchuan Li , Fei Huang , Jianrong Lv , Zhixiong Xiao , Guolong Li , Yang Yue

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their ability to replicate human behaviors across a wide range of scenarios. However, their capability in handling complex, multi-character social interactions has yet to be fully explored,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yuanzhi Liang , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly integral to enhancing developer productivity, particularly in code generation, comprehension, and repair tasks. However, fine-tuning these models with high-quality, real-world data is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xiaoyun Liang , Jingyi Ren , Jiayi Qi , Chao Peng , Bo Jiang

Evaluating the surroundings to gain understanding, frame perspectives, and anticipate behavioral reactions is an inherent human trait. However, these continuous encounters are diverse and complex, posing challenges to their study and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Deepank Verma , Olaf Mumm , Vanessa Miriam Carlow

A key component of dyadic spoken interactions is the contextually relevant non-verbal gestures, such as head movements that reflect a listener's response to the interlocutor's speech. Although significant progress has been made in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bishal Ghosh , Emma Li , Tanaya Guha

In this study, our goal is to create interactive avatar agents that can autonomously plan and animate nuanced facial movements realistically, from both visual and behavioral perspectives. Given high-level inputs about the environment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duomin Wang , Bin Dai , Yu Deng , Baoyuan Wang

This paper introduces a new model to generate rhythmically relevant non-verbal facial behaviors for virtual agents while they speak. The model demonstrates perceived performance comparable to behaviors directly extracted from the data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Alice Delbosc , Magalie Ochs , Nicolas Sabouret , Brian Ravenet , Stéphane Ayache

Large Language Models (LLMs) have increasingly demonstrated the ability to facilitate the development of multi-agent systems that allow the interpretation of thoughts and actions generated by each individual. Promising advancements have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Asher Sprigler , Alexander Drobek , Keagan Weinstock , Wendpanga Tapsoba , Gavin Childress , Andy Dao , Lucas Gral

Understanding human behavior and society is a central focus in social sciences, with the rise of generative social science marking a significant paradigmatic shift. By leveraging bottom-up simulations, it replaces costly and logistically…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jinghua Piao , Yuwei Yan , Jun Zhang , Nian Li , Junbo Yan , Xiaochong Lan , Zhihong Lu , Zhiheng Zheng , Jing Yi Wang , Di Zhou , Chen Gao , Fengli Xu , Fang Zhang , Ke Rong , Jun Su , Yong Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained and aligned to follow natural language instructions with only a handful of examples, and they are prompted as task-driven autonomous agents to adapt to various sources of execution environments.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yang Su