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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged to empower autonomous agents to simulate human beings in various fields of behavioral research. However, evaluating their capacity to navigate complex social interactions remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xinyi Mou , Jingcong Liang , Jiayu Lin , Xinnong Zhang , Xiawei Liu , Shiyue Yang , Rong Ye , Lei Chen , Haoyu Kuang , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

Given the exponential advancement in AI technologies and the potential escalation of harmful effects from recommendation systems, it is crucial to simulate and evaluate these effects early on. Doing so can help prevent possible damage to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ljubisa Bojic , Zorica Dodevska , Yashar Deldjoo , Nenad Pantelic

Accurate and verifiable large language model (LLM) simulations of human research subjects promise an accessible data source for understanding human behavior and training new AI systems. However, results to date have been limited, and few…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jacy Reese Anthis , Ryan Liu , Sean M. Richardson , Austin C. Kozlowski , Bernard Koch , James Evans , Erik Brynjolfsson , Michael Bernstein

In recent years, significant concern has emerged regarding the potential threat that Large Language Models (LLMs) pose to democratic societies through their persuasive capabilities. We expand upon existing research by conducting two survey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Zhongren Chen , Joshua Kalla , Quan Le , Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Jasjeet Sekhon , Ruixiao Wang

A fundamental challenge in opinion dynamics research is the scarcity of real-world longitudinal opinion data, which complicates the validation of theoretical models. To address this, we propose a novel simulation framework using large…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yulong He , Dutao Zhang , Sergey Kovalchuk , Pengyi Li , Artem Sedakov

Large Language Models (LLMs) display remarkable capabilities to understand or even produce political discourse but have been found to consistently exhibit a progressive left-leaning bias. At the same time, so-called persona or identity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Maximilian Kreutner , Marlene Lutz , Markus Strohmaier

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…

Flocking is a behavior where multiple agents in a system attempt to stay close to each other while avoiding collision and maintaining a desired formation. This is observed in the natural world and has applications in robotics, including…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Peihan Li , Vishnu Menon , Bhavanaraj Gudiguntla , Daniel Ting , Lifeng Zhou

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous agents necessitates the management of extensive, dynamic contexts. Current benchmarks, however, remain largely static, relying on passive retrieval tasks that fail to simulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shicheng Fang , Yuxin Wang , Xiaoran Liu , Jiahao Lu , Chuanyuan Tan , Xinchi Chen , Yining Zheng , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled human-like social simulations at unprecedented scale and fidelity, offering new opportunities for computational social science. A key challenge, however, is the construction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhengyu Hu , Jianxun Lian , Zheyuan Xiao , Max Xiong , Yuxuan Lei , Tianfu Wang , Kaize Ding , Ziang Xiao , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Xing Xie

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate their promise in tackling complicated practical challenges by combining action-based policies with chain of thought (CoT) reasoning. Having high-quality prompts on hand, however, is vital to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xue Yan , Yan Song , Xinyu Cui , Filippos Christianos , Haifeng Zhang , David Henry Mguni , Jun Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated an impressive ability to role-play humans and replicate complex social dynamics. While large-scale social simulations are gaining increasing attention, they still face significant challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xinyi Mou , Chen Qian , Wei Liu , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

Large language models (LLMs) have been applied across various intelligent educational tasks to assist teaching. While preliminary studies have focused on task-specific, independent LLM-empowered agents, the potential of LLMs within a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zheyuan Zhang , Daniel Zhang-Li , Jifan Yu , Linlu Gong , Jinchang Zhou , Zhanxin Hao , Jianxiao Jiang , Jie Cao , Huiqin Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the simulation of agent societies, enabling autonomous planning, memory formation, and social interactions. However, existing frameworks often overlook systematic evaluations for event…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yuyang Tian , Shunqiang Mao , Wenchang Gao , Lanlan Qiu , Tianxing He

While LLM/VLM-powered AI agents have advanced rapidly in math, coding, and computer use, their applications in complex physical and social environments remain challenging. Building agents that can survive and thrive in the real world (for…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as autonomous agents, tackling tasks from robotics to web navigation. Their performance depends on the underlying base agent. Existing methods, however, struggle with long-context reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Nikolai Rozanov , Marek Rei

Large language models (LLMs) offer emerging opportunities for psychological and behavioral research, but methodological guidance is lacking. This article provides a framework for using LLMs as psychological simulators across two primary…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhicheng Lin

The utilization of Large Language Models (LLMs) to power human-like agents has shown remarkable potential in simulating individual mobility pattern. However, a significant gap remains in modeling cohorts of agents in dynamic and interactive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-16 Chengbo Zhang , Zuopeng Xiao

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems that simulate real-world interactions with near-human reasoning. While previous studies have extensively examined biases related to protected attributes such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Min Choi , Keonwoo Kim , Sungwon Chae , Sangyeob Baek

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as scalable tools for pilot testing, predicting public opinion distributions before deploying costly surveys. To serve as effective pilot testing tools, the performance of these LLMs is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xutao Mao , Ezra Xuanru Tao , Leyao Wang