4 papers
Vibe Researching as Wolf Coming: Can AI Agents with Skills Replace or Augment Social Scientists?
Yongjun Zhang
AI agents -- systems that execute multi-step reasoning workflows with persistent state, tool access, and specialist skills -- represent a qualitative shift from prior automation te…
AllSpark: A Multimodal Spatio-Temporal General Intelligence Model with Ten Modalities via Language as a Reference Framework
Run Shao, Cheng Yang, Qiujun Li +8
Leveraging multimodal data is an inherent requirement for comprehending geographic objects. However, due to the high heterogeneity in structure and semantics among various spatio-t…
LLVMs4Protest: Harnessing the Power of Large Language and Vision Models for Deciphering Protests in the News
Yongjun Zhang
Large language and vision models have transformed how social movements scholars identify protest and extract key protest attributes from multi-modal data such as texts, images, and…
Generative AI has lowered the barriers to computational social sciences
Yongjun Zhang
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the field of computational social science (CSS), unleashing new possibilities for collecting and analyzing multimodal dat…