GenSim: A General Social Simulation Platform with Large Language Model based Agents
<|reference_start|>GenSim: A General Social Simulation Platform with Large Language Model based Agents: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), recent years have witnessed many promising studies on leveraging LLM-based agents to simulate human social behavior. While prior work has demonstrated significant potential across various domains, much of it has focused on specific scenarios involving a limited number of agents and has lacked the ability to adapt when errors occur during simulation. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel LLM-agent-based simulation platform called \textit{GenSim}, which: (1) \textbf{Abstracts a set of general functions} to simplify the simulation of customized social scenarios; (2) \textbf{Supports one hundred thousand agents} to better simulate large-scale populations in real-world contexts; (3) \textbf{Incorporates error-correction mechanisms} to ensure more reliable and long-term simulations. To evaluate our platform, we assess both the efficiency of large-scale agent simulations and the effectiveness of the error-correction mechanisms. To our knowledge, GenSim represents an initial step toward a general, large-scale, and correctable social simulation platform based on LLM agents, promising to further advance the field of social science.<|reference_end|>
@article{tang2024gensim:,
    title={GenSim: A General Social Simulation Platform with Large Language Model
  based Agents},
    author={Jiakai Tang, Heyang Gao, Xuchen Pan, Lei Wang, Haoran Tan, Dawei Gao,
  Yushuo Chen, Xu Chen, Yankai Lin, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Jingren Zhou, Jun
  Wang, Ji-Rong Wen},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04360},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2410.04360},
    primaryClass={cs.MA cs.AI}
}