User Behavior Simulation with Large Language Model based Agents
This research provides novel simulation paradigms for applications like studying social phenomena such as information cocoons and user conformity behaviors.
The paper tackles the problem of simulating high-quality user behavior data for human-centered applications by proposing an LLM-based agent framework and sandbox environment, finding that the simulated behaviors are very close to real human behaviors.
Simulating high quality user behavior data has always been a fundamental problem in human-centered applications, where the major difficulty originates from the intricate mechanism of human decision process. Recently, substantial evidences have suggested that by learning huge amounts of web knowledge, large language models (LLMs) can achieve human-like intelligence. We believe these models can provide significant opportunities to more believable user behavior simulation. To inspire such direction, we propose an LLM-based agent framework and design a sandbox environment to simulate real user behaviors. Based on extensive experiments, we find that the simulated behaviors of our method are very close to the ones of real humans. Concerning potential applications, we simulate and study two social phenomenons including (1) information cocoons and (2) user conformity behaviors. This research provides novel simulation paradigms for human-centered applications.