Papers by Huacong Tang
How do Role Models Shape Collective Morality? Exemplar-Driven Moral Learning in Multi-Agent Simulation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that role models influence morality, but they are not uniformly interpreted and appropriated in groups with heterogeneous motivations. |
| Approach: | They build a multi-agent simulation where agents with diverse intrinsic drives interact and adapt through a four-stage cognitive loop. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can significantly reshape morality of agents with diverse intrinsic drives . the simulations show that identity-driven conformity can substantially reshaped initial dispositions . |
Why Are We Moral? An LLM-based Agent Simulation Approach to the Study of Moral Evolution (2026.acl-long)
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Zhou Ziheng, Huacong Tang, Mingjie Bi, Wanying He, Fang Sun, Yizhou Sun, Ying Nian Wu, Demetri Terzopoulos, Yipeng Kang, Fangwei Zhong
| Challenge: | Existing models of moral evolution must abstract away cognitive processes . et al. (2017): evolution of morality presents a puzzle: natural selection favors selfish . |
| Approach: | They propose an LLM-based agent simulation framework that manipulates cognitive factors to understand moral evolution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exploits cognitive realism to explore moral evolution in a hunter-gatherer society. |