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  1. MIMESIS: Learning User Simulators as Training Environments for Interactive Agents

    Oct 7, 2026Hoang Phan, Dat Huynh, Andrey Zhmoginov +7User SimulationLLM Agent Training

    Meta Superintelligence Labs · New York University · University of Wisconsin - Madison

  2. Controllable Crowd Generation through World-Model Planning

    Oct 7, 2026JunGyu Lee, Jisu Shin, Seunghyun Shin +1Human Behavior SimulationPedestrian Behavior Modeling

    Yonsei University · GIST

  3. Socio-Foundation: A Model for Generalizable Individual Behavior Simulation via Hierarchical Capability Distillation

    Oct 6, 2026Liang Wang, Wenxuan Xie, Xinyi Mou +2Human Behavior SimulationLarge Language Model-Based Social Simulation

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Tencent

  4. Infant simulator with an embodied caregiver: Generating infant-perspective touch and vision during social interaction

    Oct 5, 2026Noemi Vaculinova, Matej HoffmannRobotics SimulationHuman Behavior Simulation

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

  5. Learning to Simulate Individuals from Macro Social Signals

    Oct 5, 2026Yining Zhao, Bushi Liu, Haofei Yu +5Human Behavior SimulationRL for Language Model Reasoning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Independent Researcher

  6. IMPACT: Modeling Socially Interdependent Movement in a Generative Multi-Agent Simulation of a Pompeian Household

    Sep 29, 2026Tianqi Liu, Nayoung Kim, Julia Sebastien +3Multi-Agent CoordinationHuman Behavior Simulation

    Department of Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA · Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA · Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA +1

  7. Evolution of fairness in multi-objective reinforcement learning framework

    Sep 28, 2026Jingyi Zhang, Xin Ou, Guozhong Zheng +3Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningGame Theory

    School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710061, P. R. China · School of Physical Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China · School of Physics, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, P. R. China

  8. Amadeus: When Models of People Meet

    Sep 24, 2026Karl HannaHuman Behavior SimulationMulti-Agent Systems

    Queen’s University Belfast United Kingdom

  9. Generative Embodied Multiple Behavior Control Systems for Human-like Agents

    Sep 19, 2026Chongyu Bao, Haokai Yang, Yuhan Wang +3Cognitive Architectures for AI AgentsHuman Behavior Simulation

    University of Bristol · University of Copenhagen · Clemson University

  10. Digital Twins for Opinion Dynamics: A Generative LLM Framework for Social Networks

    Sep 17, 2026Omran Berjawi, Giuseppe Fenza, Rida Khatoun +1Opinion DynamicsHuman Behavior Simulation

    Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI) Institut Polytechnique de Paris, T´el´ecom Paris Palaiseau, France · Management & Information Systems (DISA-MIS) University of Salerno Fisciano, Italy · College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky +1

  11. REARL: A Closed-loop Autonomous Driving Simulation Enhancement Framework with Real Traffic Data and Large Language Models

    Sep 17, 2026Xiaojun Bi, Jun Jiang, Yiwen Sun +6Language Model-Based ControlHuman Behavior Simulation

    Minzu University of China, Beijing, China · Key Laboratory of Ethnic Language Intelligent Analysis and Security Governance of MOE, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, China · Peking University, Beijing, China +4

  12. SIMLIFE: Pattern Understanding for Long-Horizon Human-Agent Partnership

    Sep 17, 2026Run Peng, Zinnia Nie, Jing Ding +7Human Behavior SimulationLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    University of Michigan · ByteDance · Osaka University +1

  13. ABM-SIRTEM: A Hybrid Agent-Based and Epidemiological Model for Pandemic Response

    Sep 16, 2026Sheryl Paul, Samuel Williams, Preetom K. Biswas +2Dynamical SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA

  14. Interpreting and Steering LLM Agents for Social Simulations

    Sep 14, 2026Jiayue Gaveal Fan, Arul Murugan, Shreyas Krishnan +1LLM InterpretabilityHuman Behavior Simulation

    1Data Innovation and AI Lab (DIAL), University of California, Berkeley · 2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

  15. Are LLMs Good Financial User Simulators? A Preliminary Study

    Sep 14, 2026Jiajie He, Jiangyuan Hong, Dongling Ni +2LLM EvaluationHuman Behavior Simulation

    1Hithink Research · 2Nanyang Technological University · 3McMaster University

  16. Diverse Minds, Divided Networks? Personality Composition, Polarization, and Collective Intelligence in LLM-Based Social Simulations

    Sep 14, 2026Raad Bin TareafOpinion DynamicsHuman Behavior Simulation

    German University of Digital Science, Potsdam, Germany.

  17. Simulating Disengaged Students to Evaluate LLM-based Tutors

    Sep 14, 2026Xianghui Meng, Jionghao LinIntelligent Tutoring SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  18. But How Would AI Agents Run a Town's Economy?

    Sep 11, 2026Sajal Regmi, Siddhartha Pudasaini, Chetan Phakami PunMulti-Agent LLM SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    Karela Technologies Inc. USA

  19. Adaptive Entangled Game Modules in Artificial General Intelligence

    Sep 10, 2026Haochen Li, Xinshuai Guo, Jingdong Ouyang +2Human Behavior SimulationEmergent Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems

    Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design, Hong Kong S.A.R., China · School of Design, Royal College of Art, London, SW7 2EU, United Kingdom · University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), School of Management, Hefei 230026, P. R. China +2

  20. Sparks of In Silico Cognitive Science: Theories from Simulated Data Can Generalize to Humans

    Sep 7, 2026Akshay K. Jagadish, Younes Strittmatter, Nori Jacoby +4Computational Cognitive ModelingHuman Behavior Simulation

    Princeton University · Cornell University · Helmholtz Munich

  21. When Can LLM Digital Twins Reduce Human Measurement? From Behavioral Fidelity to Statistical Substitutability

    Sep 7, 2026Steven Wang, Kyle Hunt, Shaojie Tang +1Human Behavior SimulationDigital Twins

    University at Buffalo

  22. From Simulated Citizens to Simulated Deliberation: Challenges in Representation and Interaction

    Sep 7, 2026Chaemin Jang, Junsik Min, Jaewoo Choi +9Opinion DynamicsHuman Behavior Simulation

    1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) · 2Seoul National University

  23. GPS-Bench: A Governance Policy Benchmark for Automating Policy Analysis

    Sep 3, 2026Linh Le, Melanie Bui, My Chiffon Nguyen +2Human Behavior SimulationAI Agent Benchmarks

    1Lida Safety · 2ERA

  24. Measuring the Behavioral Fidelity of Long-Horizon Human Activity Simulations

    Sep 1, 2026Yi Fei Cheng, Fan Yang, Iremsu Bas +3Human Behavior SimulationLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan · Fujitsu Research of America, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  25. Classic AI Scaffolding for LLM Social Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Anatole GershmanCognitive Architectures for AI AgentsHuman Behavior Simulation

    Carnegie Mellon University (retired)

  26. Data-Driven Persona-Conditioned Agents for A/B Test Simulation

    Sep 1, 2026Ziyad Benomar, Weronika Łajewska, Leonardo Perelli +1Human Behavior SimulationA/b Testing

    Amazon · Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Barcelona, Spain

  27. Disclosure-Gated User Simulation for Companion-Agent Evaluation

    Sep 1, 2026Yao Liu, Yu HeHuman Behavior SimulationAI Agent Evaluation

  28. "Act Like a 5th Grader" is Not Enough: Bounding Knowledge in LLM-Based User Simulators

    Aug 30, 2026Krisztian Balog, Arild Michel BakkenComputational Cognitive ModelingHuman Behavior Simulation

    University of Stavanger, Norway

  29. LiveSim: Simulating Environment-Shaped Users in Multi-Agent Live-Stream Ecosystems

    Aug 27, 2026Jiaqi Xu, Yiran Qiao, Jing Chen +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · ByteDance China

  30. Mitigating Identity Essentialism in LLM Agents with Longitudinal Life Trajectories

    Aug 20, 2026Hexi Wang, Yujia Zhou, Bangde Du +7Human Behavior SimulationLLM Agent Memory

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · Quan Cheng Laboratory

  31. Modeling Human Behavior with Type Vectors Using AI

    Aug 18, 2026Matthew O. Jackson, Benjamin S. Manning, Yutong Xie +2Human Behavior SimulationHuman Behavior Prediction

    Stanford University, Santa Fe Institute, Monash University · Moblab · MIT, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy +2

  32. One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL

    Aug 12, 2026Simon Yu, Nicholas Tomlin, Marwa Abdulhai +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    1Northeastern University · 2New York University · 3UC Berkeley +2

  33. SocialFiVis: A Visual Analytics Sandbox for LLM-Grounded Multi-Agent Simulation in Social Finance

    Aug 9, 2026Yi-Fan Cao, Qing Shi, Liangwei Wang +5Multi-Agent LLM SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) · The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

  34. Mind the Gaps: Mixture-of-Minds for Human Simulation

    Aug 6, 2026Pranav DahiyaMixture-of-Experts Language ModelsHuman Behavior Simulation

    Semilattice

  35. ODRA: Synthesizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions with Structured Chain-Of-Thought and Dynamic Patient Resistance

    Aug 5, 2026Javier Rodriguez-Juan, Hiba Arnaout, Jose Garcia-Rodriguez +2Mental Health CounselingHuman Behavior Simulation

    13DPLab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Alicante · 2UKP Lab, Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), Technische Universität Darmstadt

  36. MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou +90Human Behavior SimulationAI Agent Evaluation

  37. Everyone Conforms, No One Believes: Pluralistic Ignorance in LLM Agent Populations

    Aug 3, 2026Yashwanth YSMulti-Agent LLM SystemsNormative Conformity in Language Models

    Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  38. Modeling Social Dynamics with an LLM-Enabled Agent Based Network-Dynamic (LAND) Model

    Aug 2, 2026Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. CarleyHuman Behavior SimulationComputational Social Science

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  39. LLMs struggle to simulate human belief updates in controlled environments

    Jul 30, 2026Sebastian Pohl, Harsh Mehta, Pranav Mambayil +4Human Behavior SimulationLLM Reliability

    IT:U, Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Altenberger Straße 66c, 4040 Linz, Austria

  40. MyMentorLLM: A psychotherapy GenAI environment with multimodal voice/text patients, trainees and experts for deliberate practice

    Jul 28, 2026Rodolfo Rizzi, Alessandro Grecucci, Massimo StellaMental Health CounselingMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    CogNosco Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy. · Department of Education, Psychology and Communication Sciences, University of Bari, Italy.

  41. CoRenew: A large language model agent-based policy simulation platform for multifamily residential redevelopment

    Jul 28, 2026Yudi Zhang, Yuming Lin, Li Tian +2Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Negotiation

    Department of Urban Planning, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA · Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

  42. How Affect Propagates among LLM Agents: Emergent Emotional Contagion in Crowd Simulation

    Jul 27, 2026Funda DurupinarHuman Behavior SimulationAgent-Based Modeling

    Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Boston, MA 02125

  43. Identity from the Outside: A Conceptual Framework and Research Program for AI Personality Clones

    Jul 27, 2026Luc E. BrunetPersona ConsistencyPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    R&D Mediation

  44. Reason-Mediated Behavioral Models for Auditing LLM Social Simulators

    Jul 27, 2026Atharva Pandey, Gautam JajooLLM AuditingHuman Behavior Simulation

    Kairosity

  45. Simulating Tenant Responses to Energy Policy Interventions with Transaction-Cost-Aware LLM Agent

    Jul 27, 2026Weijie Xia, Stefanie Horian, Hanyue Huang +3Personality Modeling in Language ModelsHuman Behavior Simulation

    Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  46. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Persona Simulation in Opinion Prediction with GPT-4.1

    Jul 22, 2026Sarah Y. Li, Ziyu YaoHuman Behavior SimulationPersona-Conditioned Generation

    McLean High School · McLean, VA, USA · Department of Computer Science +1

  47. Empirical Grounding Improves the Realism of LLM Agents Simulating Human Behavior During Disruptions

    Jul 19, 2026Chen Xia, Zexi Kuang, Yuqing HuLLM GroundingHuman Behavior Simulation

    Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, United States of America · Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America · Digital and Interdependent Built Environment Laboratory, Department of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

  48. Pedestrian Archetypes Extension -- More Pedestrian Models for Autonomous Vehicle Safety Testing

    Jul 18, 2026Taorui Huang, Namita Gaidhani, Ritvik Bansal +6Pedestrian Behavior ModelingHuman Behavior Simulation

    Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. · University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. · University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

  49. Distribution-First Population Simulation: Collapse, Calibration, and Recall in Non-WEIRD LLM Persona Modeling

    Jul 17, 2026Gurkan OzkanHuman Behavior SimulationLarge Language Model-Based Social Simulation

    Istanbul Technical University

  50. Step-Level Preference Learning for Generative Agents in Social Simulations

    Jul 16, 2026Wenchang Gao, Pingyue Sheng, Lanlan Qiu +7Human Preference ModelingHuman Behavior Simulation

    Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute · Tsinghua University · Xiongan AI Institute +3

  51. Social Simulations: from Agent-Based Modeling to Digital Twins

    Jul 15, 2026Erica Cau, Andrea Failla, Valentina Pansanella +1Human Behavior SimulationAgent-Based Modeling

    Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa · ISTI-CNR

  52. CityBehavEx: A Scalable and Empirically Validated LLM-Assisted Urban Simulation Platform

    Jul 13, 2026Gustavo H. Santos, Aline Viana, Thiago H SilvaHuman Behavior SimulationAgent-Based Modeling

    UTFPR, Brazil · Inria, France · University of Toronto, Canada

  53. Reproducing human biases in route choice using large language models: Toward scalable behavioral modeling

    Jul 13, 2026Jiangtao Han, Shoufeng Ma, Shuxian Xu +4Cognitive ModelingHuman Behavior Simulation

    College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, China · Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

  54. Anamnesis: An Open-Source Platform for Large-Scale Backstory-Conditioned Survey Simulation

    Jul 12, 2026Song-Ze Yu, Joseph Suh, Serina Chang +1Human Behavior SimulationLarge Language Model-Based Social Simulation

    University of California, Berkeley

  55. AutoPersonas: A Multi-Timescale Loop Engine for Open-Ended Persona Evolution

    Jul 9, 2026Mengchen LiPersona ConsistencyHuman Behavior Simulation

    Latrix

  56. From Blueprint to Reality: Modeling and Applying Putnam's Social Capital Theory with LLM-based Multi-agent Simulations

    Jul 7, 2026Shiyi Ling, Zhi Zheng, Hui Zheng +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, University of Science and Technology of China · Anhui University · North Automatic Control Technology Institute +1

  57. AgoraSim: A Hybrid Agent-Based Modeling Framework

    Jul 7, 2026Chung-Chi ChenHuman Behavior SimulationLLM Agent Orchestration

    Human-Agent Ally Lab (HAA Lab) National Institute of Informatics, Japan

  58. Controllable Sim Agents with Behavior Latents

    Jul 2, 2026Juanwu Lu, Junyu Zhu, Ziran WangHuman Behavior SimulationImitation Learning

    Purdue University · University of Tokyo

  59. ComplexMimic: Human-Scene Interaction Imitation in Complex 3D Environments

    Jul 2, 2026Lu Pan, Hongwei ZhaoHuman Behavior SimulationHuman Motion Generation

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China · Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, China

  60. PedNStream: Scalable Network Flow Simulation for Pedestrian Traffic Management

    Jul 1, 2026Weiming Mai, Dorine Duives, Serge HoogendoornPedestrian Behavior ModelingIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Department of Transportation and Planning, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands