4 papers
No One Wins in Nuclear War: A Social Simulation of Military Decision-making
Glenn Matlin, Isaac Song, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang +1
WOPR is a social-simulation environment for studying how organizations make high-stakes decisions, built on a deterministic, replay-validated rules engine and using wargames as the…
Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations
Isaac Song, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Glenn Matlin +8
Social simulations built from language-model agents need role-conditioned behavior that can be checked before agents are placed into a simulated population. We introduce an activat…
FormGym: Doing Paperwork with Agents
Matthew Toles, Rattandeep Singh, Isaac Song +1
Completing paperwork is a challenging and time-consuming problem. Form filling is especially challenging in the pure-image domain without access to OCR, typeset PDF text, or a DOM.…
Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames
Glenn Matlin, Parv Mahajan, Isaac Song +10
LLM-based social simulations can make a generated transcript look like a single behavioral signal, but the model behind that transcript may be doing several different jobs: choosin…