Social simulation offers the social sciences an experimental instrument that the real world cannot supply, and generative agents have transformed it by acting as silicon samples that unite agent-based...
arXiv:2609.24911v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Social simulation offers the social sciences an experimental instrument that the real world cannot supply, and generative agents have transformed it by...
By Xinnong Zhang, Jiayu Lin, Jia Wang, Yixu Huang, Xinyi Mou, Yingqian Wu, Jingcong Liang, Shijun Lei, Jianing Shi, Guanying Li, Siyuan Wang, Hanjia Lyu, Zhenfei Yin, Yunlu Yin, Siming Chen, Yulan He, Jiebo Luo, Xuanjing Huang, Liyin Jin, Baohua Zhou, Hanqi Yan, Zhongyu Wei
arXiv:2608. 06020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Economic World Models (EWMs) are generative economic models that simulate how economies evolve from within by modeling heterogeneous agents, their beliefs and actions, and the market and institutional mechanisms through which their interactions produce aggregate outcomes.
By Jiale Han, Xiang Li, Jing Qian, Wenyuan Gu, Pin Gao, Ye Luo, Hongyuan Zha, Dacheng Tao, Benyou Wang, Lin William Cong
Economic World Models (EWMs) are generative economic models that simulate how economies evolve from within by modeling heterogeneous agents, their beliefs and actions, and the market and institutional mechanisms through which their interactions produce aggregate outcomes. This paper develops an implementation roadmap for building economic world models as generative engines in which heterogeneous agents act, interact, adapt, and co-evolve with markets and institutions, thereby producing economic dynamics from the inside.
arXiv:2507.19364v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into social simulation has generated considerable enthusiasm, but also raises substantial methodolo...
By Patrick Taillandier, Jean Daniel Zucker, Arnaud Grignard, Benoit Gaudou, Nghi Quang Huynh, Haojia Kong, Alexis Drogoul
arXiv:2604. 22748v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI systems move from generating text to accomplishing goals through sustained interaction, the ability to model environment dynamics becomes a central bottleneck.
By Meng Chu, Xuan Billy Zhang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Lingdong Kong, Jize Zhang, Teng Tu, Weijian Ma, Ziqi Huang, Senqiao Yang, Wei Huang, Yeying Jin, Zhefan Rao, Jinhui Ye, Xinyu Lin, Xichen Zhang, Qisheng Hu, Shuai Yang, Leyang Shen, Wei Chow, Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Quanyu Long, Bin Xia, Shaozuo Yu, Mingkang Zhu, Wenhu Zhang, Jiehui Huang, Haokun Gui, Runyi Li, Shiyi Du, Xu Huang, Dong Huang, Rui Liu, Chenyu Tang, Xuhang Chen, Chengzu Li, Haoxuan Che, Long Chen, Qifeng Chen, Wenxuan Zhang, Wenya Wang, Xiaojuan Qi, Yang Deng, Yanwei Li, Mike Zheng Shou, Zhi-Qi Cheng, See-Kiong Ng, Ziwei Liu, Philip Torr, Jiaya Jia
PAWS is a new dataset for policy-driven agentic world simulation that covers 36 verified U.S. financial and economic policy episodes. It includes 12,727 policy-linked news records and 65,291 stakeholder actions, each linked to supporting news and represented by a multi-layer event frame with interaction mode, financial-action family, semantic attributes, and taxonomic mappings. The dataset aligns actions with daily market-return context and has been validated by AI and human reviewers, demonstrating high agreement on interaction mode and revealing challenges in detecting rare stakeholder actions.
By Tiviatis Sim, Jia Hui Woon, Xinming Gao, Chen Gao, Fengbin Zhu, Zheng Huanhuan, Chua Tat Seng, Kenji Kawaguchi
The paper introduces a hybrid framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to assist in designing behavioural and scenario specifications for an agent‑based model of solar photovoltaic adoption by Irish dairy farms. It integrates bounded behavioural rubrics—conservative, balanced, and optimistic—with structured scenario specifications into a calibrated ABM, preserving the original techno‑economic adoption mechanism while adding controlled behavioural modulation and scenario‑driven uncertainty analysis. Experiments across various policy settings and Monte Carlo simulations show stable, economically plausible outcomes, with up to a 13% increase in behavioural adoption compared to a logistic baseline, without causing unrealistic saturation dynamics.
By Iias Faiud, Hossein Khaleghy, Michael Schukat, Karl Mason
LiveSim is an LLM-based framework designed to simulate users in multi‑agent live‑stream ecosystems. It treats users as editable behavioral hypotheses and refines them through trajectory‑grounded interactions, using discrepancies between simulated and observed trajectories to uncover missing environmental shaping effects. The extracted environment‑behavior patterns are stored in a collective behavioral memory, enhancing user‑level fidelity and enabling ecosystem‑level analysis of risk evolution and platform interventions.
The paper introduces SciUtopia, a closed‑loop large‑language‑model simulation framework that models the evolving academic research ecosystem, including research direction, collaboration, publication, peer review, funding, and researcher attrition. Running 61 simulation worlds, the system simulates over 40,000 researchers and 1.2 million LLM‑generated peer reviews, revealing that rejection‑driven resubmission increases reviewer burden, cautious exploration balances citation impact with career success, and resource inequality can arise without early‑funding advantage.
By Yiqiao Jin, Yiyang Wang, Lucheng Fu, Bing He, Siheng Xiong, Yijia Xiao, B. Aditya Prakash, Josiah Hester, Srijan Kumar, James Evans, Jindong Wang
LiveSim is an LLM-based framework designed to simulate users in multi‑agent live‑stream ecosystems. It treats users as editable behavioral hypotheses and refines them through trajectory‑grounded interactions, using discrepancies between simulated and observed trajectories to uncover missing environmental shaping effects. The framework extracts transferable environment‑behavior patterns, stores them in a collective behavioral memory, and demonstrates improved user‑level fidelity and ecosystem‑level analysis on real‑world live‑stream risk‑control data.
By Jiaqi Xu, Yiran Qiao, Jing Chen, Qiwei Zhong, Xiang Ao, Xueqi Cheng
arXiv:2609. 03553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy analysis requires more than predicting whether a proposal will pass: it requires identifying who will be affected, how those actors respond, and what follows.
By Linh Le, Melanie Bui, My Chiffon Nguyen, Zachary Schlosser, David Williams-King