4 papers
IntervenSim: Intervention-Aware Social Network Simulation for Opinion Dynamics
Yunyao Zhang, Zuocheng Ying, Xinglang Zhang +5
LLM-based social network simulation introduces a new computational approach for modeling event evolution in complex online environments. However, existing methods typically simulat…
LLM Agents as Social Scientists: A Human-AI Collaborative Platform for Social Science Automation
Lei Wang, Yuanzi Li, Jinchao Wu +4
Traditional social science research often requires designing complex experiments across vast methodological spaces and depends on real human participants, making it labor-intensive…
Investigating and Extending Homans' Social Exchange Theory with Large Language Model based Agents
Lei Wang, Zheqing Zhang, Xu Chen
Homans' Social Exchange Theory (SET) is widely recognized as a basic framework for understanding the formation and emergence of human civilizations and social structures. In social…
CharacterBox: Evaluating the Role-Playing Capabilities of LLMs in Text-Based Virtual Worlds
Lei Wang, Jianxun Lian, Yi Huang +5
Role-playing is a crucial capability of Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling a wide range of practical applications, including intelligent non-player characters, digital twins, a…