Social Simulation with LLMs - Fidelity in Applications (CFP @ COLM'26) [R]

🌟 Announcing the 2nd Workshop on Social Simulation with LLMs (Social Sim'26) @ COLM

📣 Welcoming Submissions! Submission here:.

🗓️ Deadline: June 23, 2026 (AoE)

This year's theme is "Fidelity in Applications”, moving beyond compelling demos toward evaluation, robustness, interpretability, and empirical grounding of LLM-based simulated societies.

💬 Topics include (but aren't limited to):
🔹 Simulation evaluation & fidelity
🔹 Validation against real-world social data
🔹 LLM-based agent modeling
🔹 Persona modeling
🔹 Cultural evolution
🔹 Information diffusion in simulated populations
🔹 Human–AI hybrid simulations
🔹 Simulation interpretability
🔹 Applications: governance, platform design, societal risk analysis
🔹 Ethical, societal & policy implications of large-scale simulated societies

🤝 We invite perspectives from ML, social science, psychology, and policy — anyone building, validating, or reasoning about LLM-driven simulated societies.

Hope to see you in SF! 🌉