publications

2025

1. LEAR: LLM-Driven Evolution of Agent-Based Rules

   Can Gurkan, Narasimha Karthik Jwalapuram, Kevin Wang, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Jul 2025

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   This study investigates the feasibility and effectiveness of using Large Language Models (LLMs) to drive the evolution of agent-based rules in computational modeling systems.

   @inproceedings{jwalapuram2025lear,
     title = {LEAR: LLM-Driven Evolution of Agent-Based Rules},
     author = {Gurkan, Can and Jwalapuram, Narasimha Karthik and Wang, Kevin and Danda, Rudy and Rasmussen, Leif and Chen, John and Wilensky, Uri},
     year = {2025},
     month = jul,
     day = {14},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion},
     series = {GECCO '25 Companion},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
     doi = {10.1145/3712255.3734368},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3712255.3734368},
   }