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20172026
most citedDeep Reinforcement Learning Boosted by External Knowledge

9 citations · 12 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

CityReal: Human-Aligned Urban Behavior and City Dynamics Simulation with Large-Scale LLM Agents

Nicolas Bougie, Xiaotong Ye, Narimasa Watanabe

Large-scale urban simulation plays a pivotal role in social science, traffic safety, and transportation policy. Recent work has shown that large language models, when prompted as a…

cs.AI2026

PerceptUI: LLM Agents as Human-Aligned Synthetic Users for UI/UX Evaluation

Nicolas Bougie, Xiaotong Ye, Gian Maria Marconi +1

User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) evaluation is central to product development, yet reliable feedback still relies on recruiting human participants or running online A/B…

cs.IR2026

Beyond Offline A/B Testing: Context-Aware Agent Simulation for Recommender System Evaluation

Nicolas Bougie, Gian Maria Marconi, Xiaotong Ye +1

Recommender systems are central to online services, enabling users to navigate through massive amounts of content across various domains. However, their evaluation remains challeng…

cs.IR2026

AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation

Nicolas Bougie, Gian Maria Marconi, Tony Yip +1

Evaluating recommender systems remains challenging due to the gap between offline metrics and real user behavior, as well as the scarcity of interaction data. Recent work explores…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

CitySim: Modeling Urban Behaviors and City Dynamics with Large-Scale LLM-Driven Agent Simulation

Nicolas Bougie, Narimasa Watanabe

Modeling human behavior in urban environments is fundamental for social science, behavioral studies, and urban planning. Prior work often rely on rigid, hand-crafted rules, limitin…

cs.IR2025

SimUSER: Simulating User Behavior with Large Language Models for Recommender System Evaluation

Nicolas Bougie, Narimasa Watanabe

Recommender systems play a central role in numerous real-life applications, yet evaluating their performance remains a significant challenge due to the gap between offline metrics…

cs.SI2025

MobileCity: An Efficient Framework for Large-Scale Urban Behavior Simulation

Xiaotong Ye, Nicolas Bougie, Toshihiko Yamasaki +1

Generative agents offer promising capabilities for simulating realistic urban behaviors. However, existing methods oversimplify transportation choices, rely heavily on static agent…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Generative Adversarial Reviews: When LLMs Become the Critic

Nicolas Bougie, Narimasa Watanabe

The peer review process is fundamental to scientific progress, determining which papers meet the quality standards for publication. Yet, the rapid growth of scholarly production an…

cs.LG2017★ 9 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning Boosted by External Knowledge

Nicolas Bougie, Ryutaro Ichise

Recent improvements in deep reinforcement learning have allowed to solve problems in many 2D domains such as Atari games. However, in complex 3D environments, numerous learning epi…