9 papers
Why Are We Moral? An LLM-based Agent Simulation Approach to Study Moral Evolution
Zhou Ziheng, Huacong Tang, Mingjie Bi +7
The evolution of morality presents a puzzle: natural selection should favor self-interest, yet humans developed moral systems promoting altruism. Traditional approaches must abstra…
Credibility Governance: A Social Mechanism for Collective Self-Correction under Weak Truth Signals
Wanying He, Yanxi Lin, Ziheng Zhou +5
Online platforms increasingly rely on opinion aggregation to allocate real-world attention and resources, yet common signals such as engagement votes or capital-weighted commitment…
PoliCon: Evaluating LLMs on Achieving Diverse Political Consensus Objectives
Zhaowei Zhang, Xiaobo Wang, Minghua Yi +5
Achieving political consensus is crucial yet challenging for the effective functioning of social governance. However, although frontier AI systems represented by large language mod…
The AI Hippocampus: How Far are We From Human Memory?
Zixia Jia, Jiaqi Li, Yipeng Kang +12
Memory plays a foundational role in augmenting the reasoning, adaptability, and contextual fidelity of modern Large Language Models and Multi-Modal LLMs. As these models transition…
BEDA: Belief Estimation as Probabilistic Constraints for Performing Strategic Dialogue Acts
Hengli Li, Zhaoxin Yu, Qi Shen +8
Strategic dialogue requires agents to execute distinct dialogue acts, for which belief estimation is essential. While prior work often estimates beliefs accurately, it lacks a prin…
Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia
Chandler Smith, Marwa Abdulhai, Manfred Diaz +83
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive capabilities for social interaction and are increasingly being deployed in situations where they might engage with bo…