Computational Multi-Agents Society Experiments (CMASE) is a generative agent‑based framework that enables researchers to participate in‑world and trace interventions at runtime, treating simulation as a simulated ethnographic field. It combines LLM‑driven perception, memory, and emotion with a composable environment and researcher roles that allow real‑time interaction, controlled experiments, and forward exploration of intervention trajectories. Using CMASE, the authors replicated two published field studies—urban greenery and social fragmentation, and a public goods game—demonstrating that embedded social interventions produce observable, auditable processes that parametric manipulation alone does not.
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...
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...
arXiv:2609.16436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulations based on large language models (LLMs) have proven to be powerful for understanding human behavior, making them valuable additions to the...
arXiv:2411. 10109v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning can predict human behavior well when substantial structured data are available for well-defined outcomes.
The study audits 576 LLM-based social simulations from 350 papers using the PIMMUR framework, which evaluates agent profile, interaction, memory, minimal control, unawareness, and realism. Results show that PIMMUR principles are met more often than minimal control, unawareness, and realism, with frontier LLMs correctly identifying the underlying experiment in 65.2% of cases and half of prompts pre‑determining outcomes. Reproducing five experiments revealed that many reported collective phenomena disappear or reverse when PIMMUR principles are enforced, suggesting that apparent emergent behaviors may be methodological artifacts rather than genuine social dynamics.
arXiv:2607. 17437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents offer a generative approach to simulating human behavior under conditions that may have few or no direct historical analogues, a common challenge in disaster and infrastructure-disruption planning.
arXiv:2511. 04500v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as decision-making agents in high-stakes domains and as imitators of human behavior in the social and behavioral sciences.
arXiv:2509. 21862v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How collective behaviors emerge from the interactions of individual LLM-driven agents is a central question in artificial life, yet controlled study of these emergent dynamics has been hindered by the lack of a principled simulation framework for systematic experimentation.
arXiv:2607. 06080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Putnam's Social Capital Theory is a foundational framework for collective action and community prosperity.
arXiv:2507. 09788v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) have led to a new class of autonomous agents, renewing and expanding interest in the area.
The paper introduces a new multi‑agent micro‑benchmark called Delay‑of‑Gratification, modeled after the Stanford marshmallow experiment, to evaluate large language models (LLMs) in long‑horizon, multi‑turn interactions. In the benchmark, ReAct agents use a per‑step “raise a question” tool under various constraints—social context (broadcast vs. isolated), persona traits (age, hedonic drive), and tool‑use policy (mandatory vs. optional). Across 19,200 trajectories, the study finds that most agents exhibit an early impulse to “eat,” only 75.9% persist to the end, and factors such as isolation and hedonic drive significantly influence survival and questioning behavior, with ablations showing that removing hedonic drive and age can improve completion rates.