构建可扩展的百万级虚拟社交用户模拟器,研究信息传播等群体行为。
OASIS: Open Agent Social Interaction Simulations with One Million Agents
- 基于真实社交平台设计,支持动态网络与推荐系统
- 可模拟百万级用户,揭示群体规模越大观点越多样
- 适用于跨平台研究信息扩散与群体极化现象
近年来,学界致力于将规则驱动的基于代理的模型(ABMs)升级为更真实的大型语言模型(LLM)代理,以深入研究社交媒体平台(如X、Reddit)中的复杂系统。尽管已有多个基于LLM的ABM被提出,但它们通常仅针对特定场景设计,难以复用且仅支持有限数量的代理。而真实社交平台涉及数百万用户。为此,我们提出OASIS——一个可扩展、通用的社交媒体仿真系统。OASIS基于真实平台设计,包含动态更新的环境(如动态社交网络和帖子信息)、多样化的动作空间(如关注、评论)以及推荐系统(兴趣驱动与热度评分)。该系统支持大规模用户仿真,最多可建模一百万用户。通过此系统,我们复现了信息传播、群体极化和羊群效应等社会现象,并在不同用户规模下进行观察:群体规模越大,群体动态越显著,代理观点越多元且更具帮助性。这些结果证明OASIS是研究数字环境中复杂系统的有力工具。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
There has been a growing interest in enhancing rule-based agent-based models (ABMs) for social media platforms (i.e., X, Reddit) with more realistic large language model (LLM) agents, thereby allowing for a more nuanced study of complex systems. As a result, several LLM-based ABMs have been proposed in the past year. While they hold promise, each simulator is specifically designed to study a particular scenario, making it time-consuming and resource-intensive to explore other phenomena using the same ABM. Additionally, these models simulate only a limited number of agents, whereas real-world social media platforms involve millions of users. To this end, we propose OASIS, a generalizable and scalable social media simulator. OASIS is designed based on real-world social media platforms, incorporating dynamically updated environments (i.e., dynamic social networks and post information), diverse action spaces (i.e., following, commenting), and recommendation systems (i.e., interest-based and hot-score-based). Additionally, OASIS supports large-scale user simulations, capable of modeling up to one million users. With these features, OASIS can be easily extended to different social media platforms to study large-scale group phenomena and behaviors. We replicate various social phenomena, including information spreading, group polarization, and herd effects across X and Reddit platforms. Moreover, we provide observations of social phenomena at different agent group scales. We observe that the larger agent group scale leads to more enhanced group dynamics and more diverse and helpful agents' opinions. These findings demonstrate OASIS's potential as a powerful tool for studying complex systems in digital environments.
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