PolicySim: An LLM-Based Agent Social Simulation Sandbox for Proactive Policy Optimization
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| author | Huang, Renhong Tang, Ning Xu, Jiarong Cao, Yuxuan Tu, Qingqian Guo, Sheng Zheng, Bo Liu, Huiyuan Yang, Yang |
| author_facet | Huang, Renhong Tang, Ning Xu, Jiarong Cao, Yuxuan Tu, Qingqian Guo, Sheng Zheng, Bo Liu, Huiyuan Yang, Yang |
| contents | Social platforms serve as central hubs for information exchange, where user behaviors and platform interventions jointly shape opinions. However, intervention policies like recommendation and content filtering, can unintentionally amplify echo chambers and polarization, posing significant societal risks. Proactively evaluating the impact of such policies is therefore crucial. Existing approaches primarily rely on reactive online A/B testing, where risks are identified only after deployment, making risk identification delayed and costly. LLM-based social simulations offer a promising pre-deployment alternative, but current methods fall short in realistically modeling platform interventions and incorporating feedback from the platform. Bridging these gaps is essential for building actionable frameworks to assess and optimize platform policies. To this end, we propose PolicySim, an LLM-based social simulation sandbox for the proactive assessment and optimization of intervention policies. PolicySim models the bidirectional dynamics between user behavior and platform interventions through two key components: (1) a user agent module refined via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and direct preference optimization (DPO) to achieve platform-specific behavioral realism; and (2) an adaptive intervention module that employs a contextual bandit with message passing to capture dynamic network structures. Experiments show that PolicySim can accurately simulate platform ecosystems at both micro and macro levels and support effective intervention policy. |
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| spellingShingle | PolicySim: An LLM-Based Agent Social Simulation Sandbox for Proactive Policy Optimization Huang, Renhong Tang, Ning Xu, Jiarong Cao, Yuxuan Tu, Qingqian Guo, Sheng Zheng, Bo Liu, Huiyuan Yang, Yang Social and Information Networks Artificial Intelligence Social platforms serve as central hubs for information exchange, where user behaviors and platform interventions jointly shape opinions. However, intervention policies like recommendation and content filtering, can unintentionally amplify echo chambers and polarization, posing significant societal risks. Proactively evaluating the impact of such policies is therefore crucial. Existing approaches primarily rely on reactive online A/B testing, where risks are identified only after deployment, making risk identification delayed and costly. LLM-based social simulations offer a promising pre-deployment alternative, but current methods fall short in realistically modeling platform interventions and incorporating feedback from the platform. Bridging these gaps is essential for building actionable frameworks to assess and optimize platform policies. To this end, we propose PolicySim, an LLM-based social simulation sandbox for the proactive assessment and optimization of intervention policies. PolicySim models the bidirectional dynamics between user behavior and platform interventions through two key components: (1) a user agent module refined via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and direct preference optimization (DPO) to achieve platform-specific behavioral realism; and (2) an adaptive intervention module that employs a contextual bandit with message passing to capture dynamic network structures. Experiments show that PolicySim can accurately simulate platform ecosystems at both micro and macro levels and support effective intervention policy. |
| title | PolicySim: An LLM-Based Agent Social Simulation Sandbox for Proactive Policy Optimization |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19649 |