5 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…
Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning
Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom +8
We use training-data attribution as an interpretable tool for capability discovery, mapping which regions of the pretraining corpus support social-reasoning versus STEM-reasoning i…
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…
Do Language Models Agree with Human Perceptions of Suspense in Stories?
Glenn Matlin, Devin Zhang, Rodrigo Barroso Loza +4
Suspense is an affective response to narrative text that is believed to involve complex cognitive processes in humans. Several psychological models have been developed to describe…