arXiv Machine Learning

LLMSynthor: Macro-Aligned Micro-Records Synthesis with Large Language Models

arXiv:2505. 14752v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Macro-aligned micro-records are crucial for credible simulations in social science and urban studies.

arXiv AI
Jun 6

An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making

arXiv:2606. 06360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modelling individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks is crucial for understanding behavioural dynamics and informing effective public health interventions.

By Yonchanok Khaokaew, Ruochen Kong, Andreas Zufle, Hao Xue, Taylor Anderson, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Matthew Scotch, Flora D. Salim, David J Heslop
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Do LLMs Know Your Neighborhood? Auditing LLM Priors for Neighborhood-Level Mobility Prediction and Structural Alignment

The study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can predict neighborhood-level human mobility without training data. Using anonymized Cuebiq data across four U.S. metropolitan areas, the authors compare zero‑shot LLM predictions to supervised baselines for various mobility outcomes and assess structural alignment with empirical trends. Results show supervised models outperform LLMs (average accuracy 0.580 vs. 0.435), with LLMs relying on coarse, stable priors that may exhibit biased treatment of protected-group predictors.

By Saad Mohammad Abrar, Eesha Kurella, Arnav Dadarya, Naman Awasthi, Kazi Tasnim Zinat, Vanessa Frias-Martinez
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4

An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making

Modelling individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks is crucial for understanding behavioural dynamics and informing effective public health interventions. Prior work has shown that large language models can simulate realistic human behaviour by generating agent decisions based on demographic prompts and situational context.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

Principled Synthetic Data Enables the First Scaling Laws for LLMs in Recommendation

arXiv:2602. 07298v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a promising frontier for recommender systems, yet their development has been impeded by the absence of predictable scaling laws, which are crucial for guiding research and optimizing resource allocation.

By Benyu Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Jianpeng Cheng, Hong-You Chen, Qifei Wang, Wei Sun, Shen Li, Jia Li, Jiahao Wu, Qunshu Zhang, Neeraj Bhatia, Xiangjun Fan, Hong Yan
arXiv AI
Jul 10

MobiDiff: Semantic-Aware Multi-Channel Discrete Diffusion for Human Mobility Data Generation

arXiv:2607. 08357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility data are essential for transportation optimization, urban planning, and resource allocation, yet real-world mobility data are costly to collect and difficult to share due to privacy concerns.

By Rongchao Xu, Lin Jiang, Dahai Yu, Ximiao Li, Taichi Liu, Desheng Zhang, Yuan Tian, Guang Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 20

Distilling Aggregate Mobility Statistics into a Language Model Policy for Post-Event Crowd Simulation

The paper presents a method to align a language‑model‑based crowd agent with aggregate mobility data by fine‑tuning it to match observed destination compositions derived from origin‑to‑destination flows. The approach uses iterative proportional fitting to reweight the model’s destination distribution and corrects for dominant destination inflation by training a low‑rank adapter on resampled trajectories. Experiments on mobile network counts from two baseball games show a 25% reduction in destination‑share error while maintaining similar grid correlation across policies.