8 papers
AgentSociety: Large-Scale Simulation of LLM-Driven Generative Agents Advances Understanding of Human Behaviors and Society
Jinghua Piao, Yuwei Yan, Jun Zhang +13
Understanding human behavior and society is a central focus in social sciences, with the rise of generative social science marking a significant paradigmatic shift. By leveraging b…
Debiasing International Attitudes: LLM Agents for Simulating US-China Perception Changes
Nicholas Sukiennik, Yichuan Xu, Yuqing Kan +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative opportunities to address the longstanding challenge of modeling opinion evolution in computational social science. This study inve…
Simulating Generative Social Agents via Theory-Informed Workflow Design
Yuwei Yan, Jinghua Piao, Xiaochong Lan +3
Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated strong reasoning and role-playing capabilities, opening new opportunities for agent-based social simulations. However, mo…
Exploring Large Language Model Agents for Piloting Social Experiments
Jinghua Piao, Yuwei Yan, Nian Li +2
Computational social experiments, which typically employ agent-based modeling to create testbeds for piloting social experiments, not only provide a computational solution to the m…
AgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender Systems
Yu Shang, Peijie Liu, Yuwei Yan +9
The emergence of agentic recommender systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) represents a paradigm shift in personalized recommendations, leveraging LLMs' advanced reasonin…
AgentSociety Challenge: Designing LLM Agents for User Modeling and Recommendation on Web Platforms
Yuwei Yan, Yu Shang, Qingbin Zeng +9
The AgentSociety Challenge is the first competition in the Web Conference that aims to explore the potential of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in modeling user behavior and enha…