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PersonaArena: Dynamic Simulation for Evaluating and Enhancing Persona-Level Role-Playing in Large Language Models
May 16, 2026Wenlong Shi, Jianxun Lian, Mingqi Wu +5Large Language Model-Based Role-Play Simulation Personality Modeling in Language Models
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China · Microsoft Research Asia · Microsoft Gaming +2
EconAI: Dynamic Persona Evolution and Memory-Aware Agents in Evolving Economic Environments
May 13, 2026Annie Liu, Zane Cao, Lang Chen +2Human Behavior Simulation Agent-Based Modeling
Tsinghua University
ScioMind: Cognitively Grounded Multi-Agent Social Simulation with Anchoring-Based Belief Dynamics and Dynamic Profiles
May 13, 2026Yitian Yang, Yiqun Duan, Linghan Huang +4Multi-Agent LLM Systems Opinion Dynamics
The University of Sydney · Meta
Beyond Cooperative Simulators: Generating Realistic User Personas for Robust Evaluation of LLM Agents
May 13, 2026Harshita Chopra, Kshitish Ghate, Aylin Caliskan +3Human Behavior Simulation LLM Agent Evaluation
University of Washington, Seattle, WA · Georgetown University, Washington, DC
BEHAVE: Real-Time Modeling of Human Systems as Observable Complex Dynamical Systems and Operational Objects for Physical AI
May 12, 2026Helene MalyutinaDynamical Systems Pedestrian Behavior Modeling
Independent Researcher, Collective Dynamics Lab
How Well Do Large Language Models Capture Human Personality?
May 12, 2026Aanisha Bhattacharyya, Yaman Kumar Singla, Rajiv Ratn Shah +2LLM Evaluation Representation Collapse
Adobe Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) · IIIT-Delhi · SUNY at Buffalo
When Can Digital Personas Reliably Approximate Human Survey Findings?
May 11, 2026Mumin Jia, Yilin Chen, Divya Sharma +1Human Behavior Simulation User Modeling
Department of Mathematics and Statistics York University Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 · Department of Biostatistics University Health Network Toronto, ON M5G 2C4
Strategic Exploitation in LLM Agent Markets: A Simulation Framework for E-Commerce Trust
May 11, 2026Shijun Lei, Quang Nguyen, Swapneel S Mehta +7Human Behavior Simulation Agent-Based Modeling
Northwestern Polytechnical University · Boston University · Fudan University +3
MiroBench: Benchmarking Realism in Agentic Simulation of Real-world Discussions
May 10, 2026Yaoning Yu, Ye Yu, Haojing Luo +1Human Behavior Simulation LLM Agent Evaluation
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beyond Self-Play: Hierarchical Reasoning for Continuous Motion in Closed-Loop Traffic Simulation
May 9, 2026Weifan Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhao, Adel Bazzi +3Human Behavior Simulation Hierarchical RL
Isuzu Technical Center of America, Plymouth, MI, USA · School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Reason to Play: Behavioral and Brain Alignment Between Frontier LRMs and Human Game Learners
May 8, 2026Botos Csaba, Sreejan Kumar, Austin Tudor David Andrews +6Game-Playing Agents Human Behavior Simulation
University of Oxford · Columbia University · New York University +2
Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors
May 8, 2026Shuhaib Mehri, Philippe Laban, Sumuk Shashidhar +4Human Behavior Simulation User Simulation
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Microsoft Research · University of California, Berkeley
GASim: A Graph-Accelerated Hybrid Framework for Social Simulation
May 8, 2026Xuan Zhou, Yanhui Sun, Hantao Yao +3Multi-Agent LLM Systems Human Behavior Simulation
University of Science and Technology of China · BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour
Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics?
May 5, 2026Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, James N. Druckman +3Opinion Dynamics Normative Conformity in Language Models
Department of Computer Science University of Rochester · Department of Political Science University of Rochester · Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester
Decision-aware User Simulation Agent for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems
May 5, 2026Yuan-Chi Li, Li-Chi Chen, Sung-Yi Wu +2Human Behavior Simulation Recommender Systems
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University
Can AI Debias the News? LLM Interventions Improve Cross-Partisan Receptivity but LLMs Overestimate Their Own Effectiveness
May 1, 2026Faisal Feroz, Jonas R. KunstLLM Evaluation Human Behavior Simulation
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford · Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford · Psychology Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University +1
The $\textit{Silicon Society}$ Cookbook: Design Space of LLM-based Social Simulations
Apr 30, 2026Aurélien Bück-Kaeffer, Sneheel Sarangi, Maximilian Puelma Touzel +3Multi-Agent LLM Systems Human Behavior Simulation
McGill University · Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute · Ubisoft La Forge +2
Fake Plastic Voters: When Political Parties Can Use AI-Simulated Focus Groups
Apr 28, 2026Claudio Novelli, Javier Argota Sanchez-Vaquerizo, Jennifer Cyr +4Human Behavior Simulation Human-AI Decision Making
Digital Ethics Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA · Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich, Switzerland · Department of Political Science and International Studies, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina +3
A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation
Apr 27, 2026Bo Ni, Leyao Wang, Yu Wang +27Human Behavior Simulation User Modeling
Vanderbilt University · Yale University · University of Oregon +8
The Chameleon's Limit: Investigating Persona Collapse and Homogenization in Large Language Models
Apr 27, 2026Yunze Xiao, Vivienne J. Zhang, Chenghao Yang +3LLM Evaluation Personality Modeling in Language Models
CMU · UChicago · MIT +3
LLMs Reading the Rhythms of Daily Life: Aligned Understanding for Behavior Prediction and Generation
Apr 26, 2026Fanjin Meng, Jingtao Ding, Nian Li +2LLM Alignment Human Behavior Simulation
Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Machine Behavior in Relational Moral Dilemmas: Moral Rightness, Predicted Human Behavior, and Model Decisions
Apr 23, 2026Jiseon Kim, Jea Kwon, Luiz Felipe Vecchietti +3Moral Reasoning in Language Models Human Behavior Simulation
1KAIST · 2MPI-SP
Resolving space-sharing conflicts in road user interactions through uncertainty reduction: An active inference-based computational model
Apr 21, 2026Julian F. Schumann, Johan Engström, Ran Wei +3Collision Avoidance Intelligent Transportation Systems
Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands · Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA
TEAM-SimHRA: A Team-Based Simulation Framework for Human Reliability Analysis Using Multi-Agent Large Language Models
Apr 21, 2026Xingyu Xiao, Jiejuan Tong, Jingang Liang +1Human Behavior Simulation Agent-Based Modeling
Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering, Beijing, 100094, China
Understanding Human Actions through the Lens of Executable Models
Apr 20, 2026Rimvydas Rubavicius, Manisha Dubey, N. Siddharth +1Temporal Action Segmentation Human Activity Recognition
School of Informatics The University of Edinburgh
Dynamics of Cognitive Heterogeneity: Investigating Behavioral Biases in Multi-Stage Supply Chains with LLM-Based Simulation
Apr 19, 2026Jiuyun Jiang, Yuecheng Hong, Bo Yang +4Multi-Agent Coordination Human Behavior Simulation
Harbin Institute of Technology · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Evolution of Lane-Changing Behavior in Mixed Traffic: A Quantum Game Theory Approach
Apr 17, 2026Sungyong Chung, Tina Radvand, Alireza TalebpourHuman Behavior Simulation Autonomous Driving Planning
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Meituan Merchant Business Diagnosis via Policy-Guided Dual-Process User Simulation
Apr 16, 2026Ziyang Chen, Renbing Chen, Daowei Li +4Human Behavior Simulation User Simulation
LongCat Interaction Team, Meituan Inc. Beijing, China · Independent Researcher Changsha, China
CogEvolution: A Human-like Generative Educational Agent to Simulate Student's Cognitive Evolution
Apr 16, 2026Wei Zhang, Yihang Cheng, Zhirong Ye +1Cognitive Modeling Human Behavior Simulation
Faculty of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China · National Engineering Research Center for Educational Big Data, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China · Central China Normal University Wollongong Joint Institute, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change
Apr 2, 2026Jayd Matyas, William A. Cunningham, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets +3Computational Cognitive Modeling Human Behavior Simulation
Google DeepMind · University of Toronto · Caltech +1

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PersonaArena: Dynamic Simulation for Evaluating and Enhancing Persona-Level Role-Playing in Large Language Models

Wenlong Shi, Jianxun Lian, Mingqi Wu, Haiming Qin+4

College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China · Microsoft Research Asia · Microsoft Gaming+2

Large Language Model-Based Role-Play Simulation Personality Modeling in Language Models Human Behavior Simulation LLM Agent Evaluation AI Agent Benchmarks Large Language Model-Based Social Simulation

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Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve as interactive social agents, yet their ability to maintain coherent and authentic persona-level role-playing remains limited, particularly in realistic social scenarios. Existing research predominantly focuses on character-level settings and relies on static evaluation formats, failing to capture the complexity of everyday social interactions. In this work, we present PersonaArena, a dynamic simulation framework for evaluating and improving persona-level role-playing in LLMs. PersonaArena leverages a large, filtered corpus of user-generated social content to construct a nuanced persona bank, and elicits multi-turn, context-rich interactions within simulated social environments. Our framework features a multi-agent debating judge for holistic and unbiased assessment. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that PersonaArena enables rigorous evaluation and enhancement of LLMs' role-playing capabilities, advancing the development of more authentic and socially adept AI agents.

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