Social Simulation

2026

Glenn Matlin, Isaac Song, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, and Mark O. Riedl
No One Wins in Nuclear War: Social Simulations of High-Stakes Military Decision-Making
Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs (2026).
arXiv Workshop bibtexSocial SimulationAgentsLarge Language ModelsAI Safety

@InProceedings{Matlin2026NoOneWins, author = {Matlin, Glenn and Song, Isaac and Zang, Anthony Wen-Ming and Riedl, Mark O.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs}, title = {No One Wins in Nuclear War: Social Simulations of High-Stakes Military Decision-Making}, year = {2026}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01868}, keywords = {worlds, agents, llms, safe}, }

Mark O. Riedl and Glenn Matlin
Position: AI is Not Ready for Strategic Conflict
Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs (2026).
Workshop bibtexSocial SimulationAgentsPolicy and LawAI Safety

@InProceedings{Riedl2026Position, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Matlin, Glenn}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs}, title = {Position: AI is Not Ready for Strategic Conflict}, year = {2026}, owner = {riedl}, keywords = {worlds, agents, policy, safe}, }

Isaac Song, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Glenn Matlin, Emile Timothy Anand, Akhil Theerthala, Arjun Chatterjee, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, Maria Kostylew, Yonadav G. Shavit, Sebastian Krier, and Mark O. Riedl
Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations
Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs (2026).
arXiv Workshop bibtexSocial SimulationAgentsLarge Language ModelsInterpretability

@InProceedings{Song2026RoleSteering, author = {Song, Isaac and Parwani, Mohammed Rehan and Matlin, Glenn and Anand, Emile Timothy and Theerthala, Akhil and Chatterjee, Arjun and Zang, Anthony Wen-Ming and Kostylew, Maria and Shavit, Yonadav G. and Krier, Sebastian and Riedl, Mark O.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the COLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs}, title = {Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations}, year = {2026}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00023}, keywords = {worlds, agents, llms, interp}, }

2025

Glenn Matlin, Parv Mahajan, Isaac Song, Yixiong Hao, Ryan Bard, Stu Topp, Evan Montoya, M. Rehan Parwani, Soham Shetty, and Mark Riedl
Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames
Proceedings of the 2025 EMNLP Word Play Workshop (2025).
arXiv Workshop bibtexSocial SimulationAgentsAI Safety

@InProceedings{Matlin2025Wargames, author = {Glenn Matlin and Parv Mahajan and Isaac Song and Yixiong Hao and Ryan Bard and Stu Topp and Evan Montoya and Parwani, M. Rehan and Soham Shetty and Mark Riedl}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 EMNLP Word Play Workshop}, title = {Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames}, year = {2025}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17192}, keywords = {worlds, agents, safe}, }

2021

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O. Riedl
Modeling Worlds in Text
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Benchmarks Track (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive StoriesSocial SimulationAgentsReinforcement Learning

@InProceedings{Ammanabrolu2021Modeling, author = {Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Modeling Worlds in Text}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Benchmarks Track}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.06.15}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09578}, keywords = {int, worlds, agents, rl}, }

2006

Mark O. Riedl and Andrew Stern
Believable Agents and Intelligent Scenario Direction for Social and Cultural Leadership Training
Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS) (2006).
PDF Conference bibtexInteractive StoriesSocial SimulationAgentsEducation

@InProceedings{riedl:brims2006, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Andrew Stern}, title = {Believable Agents and Intelligent Scenario Direction for Social and Cultural Leadership Training}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS)}, year = {2006}, cvnote = {Awarded best paper.}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/brims06.pdf}, keywords = {int, worlds, agents, edu}, }