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Unveiling the Truth and Facilitating Change: Towards Agent-based Large-scale Social Movement Simulation

arXiv 2402.16333 ↗First posted 26 Feb 2024cs.CY cs.CLcited by 69

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Social simulation and multi-agent debate

Abstract (arXiv)

Social media has emerged as a cornerstone of social movements, wielding significant influence in driving societal change. Simulating the response of the public and forecasting the potential impact has become increasingly important. However, existing methods for simulating such phenomena encounter challenges concerning their efficacy and efficiency in capturing the behaviors of social movement participants. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid framework HiSim for social media user simulation, wherein users are categorized into two types. Core users are driven by Large Language Models, while numerous ordinary users are modeled by deductive agent-based models. We further construct a Twitter-like environment to replicate their response dynamics following trigger events. Subsequently, we develop a multi-faceted benchmark SoMoSiMu-Bench for evaluation and conduct comprehensive experiments across real-world datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and flexibility of our method.

Key facts. Cited by 69 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Social simulation and multi-agent debate, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 16 of its 46 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Feb 2024.

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