3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
CityReal: Human-Aligned Urban Behavior and City Dynamics Simulation with Large-Scale LLM Agents
Nicolas Bougie, Xiaotong Ye, Narimasa Watanabe
Large-scale urban simulation plays a pivotal role in social science, traffic safety, and transportation policy. Recent work has shown that large language models, when prompted as a…
cs.AI2026
PerceptUI: LLM Agents as Human-Aligned Synthetic Users for UI/UX Evaluation
Nicolas Bougie, Xiaotong Ye, Gian Maria Marconi +1
User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) evaluation is central to product development, yet reliable feedback still relies on recruiting human participants or running online A/B…
cs.IR2026
Beyond Offline A/B Testing: Context-Aware Agent Simulation for Recommender System Evaluation
Nicolas Bougie, Gian Maria Marconi, Xiaotong Ye +1
Recommender systems are central to online services, enabling users to navigate through massive amounts of content across various domains. However, their evaluation remains challeng…