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New framework simulates 500M household agents for economic experiments

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Researchers have developed S$^2$-MAS, a novel framework for simulating multi-agent systems at a societal scale, utilizing 500 million synthetic household personas derived from real survey data. The framework's Genese engine separates decision-making from state updates, and its sharp-421m-mlx model demonstrates strong performance in financial-choice tasks, outperforming several other large language models. S$^2$-MAS enables detailed economic experiments by linking heterogeneous household decisions to evolving consumption, cash flow, and repayment paths across various population scales and time horizons. AI

IMPACT Enables large-scale economic simulations and agent-based modeling, potentially advancing research in economics and social sciences.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yang Li, Di Wan, Yike Wang, Chujun He, Zongsi Xu, Xiyu Chen, Sheng Zhong, Deng Binjie, Zhenwei Guo, Hou Jun, Kunhan Guo, Weihao Lin, Tuo Zhou, Hai Liu, Ye Luo ·

    S$^2$-MAS: A Society-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation Framework with 500 Million Household Persona Agents

    arXiv:2610.27746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulating economic responses at society scale requires agents whose decisions reflect household circumstances and the effects of earlier actions. We introduce S$^2$-MAS, a society-scale multi-agent simulation framework built on 5…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Ye Luo ·

    S$^2$-MAS: A Society-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation Framework with 500 Million Household Persona Agents

    Simulating economic responses at society scale requires agents whose decisions reflect household circumstances and the effects of earlier actions. We introduce S$^2$-MAS, a society-scale multi-agent simulation framework built on 500 million synthetic household personas grounded i…

  3. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Ye Luo ·

    S$^2$-MAS: A Society-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation Framework with 500 Million Household Persona Agents

    Simulating economic responses at society scale requires agents whose decisions reflect household circumstances and the effects of earlier actions. We introduce S$^2$-MAS, a society-scale multi-agent simulation framework built on 500 million synthetic household personas grounded i…

  4. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Ye Luo ·

    S$^2$-MAS: A Society-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation Framework with 500 Million Household Persona Agents

    Simulating economic responses at society scale requires agents whose decisions reflect household circumstances and the effects of earlier actions. We introduce S$^2$-MAS, a society-scale multi-agent simulation framework built on 500 million synthetic household personas grounded i…

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