COLM 2025 Workshop Social Sim Submissions

Morals and Reasoning: Formalizing Moral Influence on Reasoning and AI Systems Alignment
Albert Olweny Okiri
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Wisdom of the Machines: Exploring Collective Intelligence in LLM Crowds
Yashar Talebirad, Ali Parsaee, Vishwajeet Ohal, Amirhossein Nadiri, Csongor Szepesvari, Yash Mouje, Eden Redman
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 06 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
WHEN TO ACT, WHEN TO WAIT: Modeling Structural Trajectories for Intent Triggerability in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Yaoyao Qian, Jindan Huang, Yuanli Wang, Simon Yu, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Jiayuan Mao, Mingfu Liang, Hanhan Zhou
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
NormLens: Massively Multicultural MLLM Reasoning with Fine-Grained Social Awareness
Yi R. Fung, Heng Ji
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Distributional Alignment for Social Simulation with LLMs: A Prompt Mixture Modeling Approach
Yutong Xie, Ruoyi Gao, Qiaozhu Mei
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
NegotiationGym: Self-Optimizing Agents in a Multi-Agent Social Simulation Environment
Shashank Mangla, Chris Hokamp, Jack Boylan, Demian Gholipour Ghalandari, Yuuv Jauhari, Lauren Cassidy, Oisin Duffy
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study
Bolei Ma, Berk Yoztyurk, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Xinpeng Wang, Markus Herklotz, Frauke Kreuter, Barbara Plank, Matthias Aßenmacher
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Can LLMs Imitate Social Media Dialogue? Techniques for calibration and BERT-based Turing-Test
Nicolò Pagan, Petter Törnberg, Christopher Bail, Ancsa Hannak, Christopher Barrie
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Drawing Reliable Conclusions with Synthetic Simulations from Large Language Models
Yewon Byun, Shantanu Gupta, Zachary Chase Lipton, Rachel Leah Childers, Bryan Wilder
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
GOVSIM-ELECT: Elections in AI Societies
Anushka Deshpande, Zhijing Jin
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Poor Alignment and Steerability of Large Language Models: Evidence Using 30,000 College Admissions Essays
Jinsook Lee, AJ Alvero, Thorsten Joachims, Rene F Kizilcec
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Can LLMs Simulate Personas with Reversed Performance? A Systematic Investigation for Counterfactual Instruction Following in Math Reasoning Context
Sai Adith Senthil Kumar, Hao Yan, Saipavan Perepa, Murong Yue, Ziyu Yao
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Do Role-Playing Agents Practice What They Preach? Belief-Behavior Alignment in LLM-Based Simulations of Human Trust
Amogh Mannekote, Adam Davies, Guohao Li, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, ChengXiang Zhai, Bonnie J Dorr, Francesco Pinto
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Persona-Assigned Large Language Models Exhibit Human- Like Motivated Reasoning
Saloni Dash, Amélie Reymond, Emma Spiro, Aylin Caliskan
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Language Models Might Not Understand You: Evaluating Theory of Mind via Story Prompting
Nathaniel Getachew, Abulhair Saparov
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Investigating Moral Evolution Via LLM-Based Agent Simulation
Zhou Ziheng, Huacong Tang, Mingjie Bi, Ying Nian Wu, Demetri Terzopoulos, Fangwei Zhong
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
All Norms and No Nuance Make LLMs Dull Cultural Simulators
Sougata Saha, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Monojit Choudhury
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 02 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Agent-to-Agent Theory of Mind: Testing Interlocutor Awareness among Large Language Models
Younwoo Choi, Changling Li, Yongjin Yang, Zhijing Jin
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Cooperative Behaviour in LLMs via Cultural Evolution of Norms and Strategies
Chen Cecilia Liu
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
SocioSim: A Framework for Rapid, Policy-Relevant Audience Simulation
Eugene Lensky
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Language Model Fine-Tuning on Scaled Survey Data for Predicting Distributions of Public Opinions
Joseph Suh, Erfan Jahanparast, Suhong Moon, Minwoo Kang, Serina Chang
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors
Tiancheng Hu, Joachim Baumann, Lorenzo Lupo, Nigel Collier, Dirk Hovy, Paul Röttger
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Twin-2K-500: A dataset for building digital twins of over 2,000 people based on their answers to over 500 questions
Olivier Toubia, George Z. Gui, Tianyi Peng, Daniel J. Merlau, Ang Li, Haozhe Chen
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
LLM Generated Persona is a Promise with a Catch
Ang Li, Haozhe Chen, Hongseok Namkoong, Tianyi Peng
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
Higher-Order Binding of Language Model Virtual Personas: a Study on Approximating Political Partisan Misperceptions
Minwoo Kang, Suhong Moon, Seung Hyeong Lee, Ayush Raj, Joseph Suh, David M. Chan
- Published: 24 Jul 2025, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone