Different tools/papers for/about simulation with LLMs. ### Perspective - [Can Generative AI improve social science?](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314021121) ### Simulation on Social Media - [YSocial](https://github.com/YSocialTwin): "YSocial offers a Digital Twin of a microblogging platform, enabling realistic social media simulations." - [OASIS: Open Agent Social Interaction Simulations with One Million Agents](https://github.com/camel-ai/oasis): "OASIS is a scalable, open-source social media simulator that incorporates large language model agents to realistically mimic the behavior of up to one million users on platforms like Twitter and Reddit." - [HiSim: A Hybrid Social Media Simulation Framework](https://github.com/xymou/HiSim): Implementation of an ACL 2024-Findings paper [Unveiling the Truth and Facilitating Change: Towards Agent-based Large-scale Social Movement Simulation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16333). - [GenSim: A General Social Simulation Platform with Large Language Model based Agents](https://github.com/TangJiakai/GenSim): Implementation of this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04360 - [VIRENA: Virtual Arena for Research, Education, and Democratic Innovation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12207v1) ### Simulation of People - [Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442) - [Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543) - [LLM Agents Grounded in Self-Reports Enable General-Purpose Simulation of Individuals](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10109) - [Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899) #### Counter argument to the simulation of people with LLMs - [Take caution in using LLMs as human surrogates](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501660122) - Science paper + counter from Christopher Barrie - Science: [Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu9368) - Counter: [Emergent LLM behaviors are observationally equivalent to data leakage](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23796) - [Validation is the central challenge for generative social simulation: a critical review of LLMs in agent-based modeling](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11412-6) - --- #### Related