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Human Values Matter: Investigating How Misalignment Shapes Collective Behaviors in LLM Agent Communities
Xiangxu Zhang, Jiamin Wang, Qinlin Zhao +6
As LLMs become increasingly integrated into human society, evaluating their orientations on human values from social science has drawn growing attention. Nevertheless, it is still…
Knowing Your Uncertainty -- On the application of LLM in social sciences
Bolun Zhang, Linzhuo Li, Yunqi Chen +4
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being integrated into computational social science research, yet their blackboxed training and designed stochastic elements in inference po…
Innovation by Displacement
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
New ideas are often thought to arise from recombining existing knowledge. Yet despite rapid publication growth - and expanding opportunities for recombination - scientific breakthr…
Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
The combination of diverse, pre-existing knowledge is a common explanation for scientific breakthroughs. However, a paradox exists: while scientific output and the potential for su…
The Disruption Index Measures Displacement Between a Paper and Its Most Cited Reference
Yiling Lin, Linzhuo Li, Lingfei Wu
Initially developed to capture technical innovation and later adapted to identify scientific breakthroughs, the Disruption Index (D-index) offers the first quantitative framework f…
Is Science Inevitable?
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
Using large-scale citation data and a breakthrough metric, the study systematically evaluates the inevitability of scientific breakthroughs. We find that scientific breakthroughs e…
Team Size and Its Negative Impact on the Disruption Index
Yiling Lin, Linzhuo Li, Lingfei Wu
As science transitions from the age of lone geniuses to an era of collaborative teams, the question of whether large teams can sustain the creativity of individuals and continue dr…
Displacing Science
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
Recent research on the decline in the paper disruption index (D-index) has sparked heated debates among scholars and garnered significant attention from policymakers and research i…
Social Centralization and Semantic Collapse: Hyperbolic Embeddings of Networks and Text
Linzhuo Li, Lingfei Wu, James Allen Evans
Modern advances in transportation and communication technology from airplanes to the internet alongside global expansions of media, migration, and trade have made the modern world…
Social Connection Induces Cultural Contraction: Evidence from Hyperbolic Embeddings of Social and Semantic Networks
Lingfei Wu, Linzhuo Li, James Evans
Research has repeatedly demonstrated the influence of social connection and communication on convergence in cultural tastes, opinions and ideas. Here we review recent studies and c…