Unveiling the Truth and Facilitating Change: Towards Agent-based Large-scale Social Movement Simulation (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for simulating social movements encounter challenges in capturing behavior of participants. |
| Approach: | They propose a hybrid framework for social media user simulation wherein users are categorized into two types: core and ordinary users. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is able to simulate the behavior of social media users across real-world datasets and demonstrate its effectiveness and flexibility. |
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