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LLMs simulate infectious disease spread by modeling human decision-making

Researchers have developed a new simulation framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to model individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks. This framework integrates LLM-generated decisions about self-reported illness into a synthetic population, considering factors like location, income, and education. The study simulated outcomes in San Francisco and Atlanta, finding that socioeconomic factors were the primary drivers of reporting rates, with geographical and message framing also playing roles. AI

IMPACT This framework could enhance public health interventions by providing more realistic simulations of disease spread influenced by human behavior.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new simulation framework using LLMs for epidemiological modeling.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yonchanok Khaokaew, Ruochen Kong, Andreas Zufle, Hao Xue, Taylor Anderson, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Matthew Scotch, Flora D. Salim, David J Heslop ·

    An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making

    arXiv:2606.06360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modelling individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks is crucial for understanding behavioural dynamics and informing effective public health interventions. Prior work has shown that large language models can simu…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · David J Heslop ·

    An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making

    Modelling individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks is crucial for understanding behavioural dynamics and informing effective public health interventions. Prior work has shown that large language models can simulate realistic human behaviour by generating age…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making

    Modelling individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks is crucial for understanding behavioural dynamics and informing effective public health interventions. Prior work has shown that large language models can simulate realistic human behaviour by generating age…