6 papers
Benchmarking LLMs for Community Governance Simulation with Life-history Narratives
Xu Chen, Yuanzi Li, Lei Wang +6
Effective community governance hinges on understanding what specific residents think and need. Recent work has used large language models (LLMs) to simulate human respondents, offe…
Divergence Meets Consensus: A Multi-Source Negative Sampling Framework for Sequential Recommendation
Yuanzi Li, Lingjie Wang, Jingyu Zhao +4
Negative sampling is significant for training sequential recommendation models under implicit feedback. The predominant strategy, self-guided hard negative sampling, selects negati…
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…
MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
Yanqi Dai, Huanran Hu, Lei Wang +3
Recently, Role-Playing Agents (RPAs) have garnered increasing attention for their potential to deliver emotional value and facilitate sociological research. However, existing studi…