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Zhixun Chen

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AAMAS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Macroeconomic Modelling Using Large Language Models

Zhixun Chen
Zijing Shi
Yaodong Yang
Meng Fang
Yali Du

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in simulating macroeconomic systems by integrating the agent-based models. Unlike rule-based systems or neural networks with fixed learning patterns, LLM agents capture the heterogeneity of economic actors. However, existing LLM-based simulation environments are generally static, maintaining constant government policies. In this study, we introduce a hierarchical framework that incorporates LLM economic agents and an LLM planner capable of formulating policies in response to evolving economic conditions. Utilizing the proposed framework, we further examine the simulated system’s resilience to economic shocks by analyzing how economic agents respond to unforeseen events and how the planner adapts to mitigate these challenges. Our results indicate that the proposed framework improves the stability of the economic system and captures more dynamic macroeconomic phenomena, offering a precise and versatile simulation platform for studying real-world economic dynamics.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

MuRating: A High Quality Data Selecting Approach to Multilingual Large Language Model Pretraining

Zhixun Chen
Ping Guo
Wenhan Han
Yifan Zhang
Binbin Liu
Haobin Lin
Fengze Liu
Yan Zhao

Data quality is a critical driver of large language model performance, yet existing model-based selection methods focus almost exclusively on English, neglecting other languages that are essential in the training mix for multilingual LLMs. We introduce MuRating, a scalable framework that transfers high-quality English data-quality signals into a multilingual autorater, capable of handling 17 languages. MuRating aggregates multiple English autoraters via pairwise comparisons to learn unified document quality scores, then projects these judgments through translation to train a multilingual evaluator on monolingual, cross-lingual, and parallel text pairs. Applied to web data, MuRating selects balanced subsets of English and multilingual content to pretrain LLaMA-architecture models of 1. 2B and 7B parameters. Compared to strong baselines, including QuRater, FineWeb2-HQ, AskLLM, DCLM, our approach increases average accuracy on both English benchmarks and multilingual evaluations. Extensive analyses further validate that pairwise training provides greater stability and robustness than pointwise scoring, underscoring the effectiveness of MuRating as a general multilingual data-selection framework.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning

Xiaoyuan Zhang
Yizhe Huang
Chengdong Ma
Zhixun Chen
Long Ma
Yali Du
Song-Chun Zhu
Yaodong Yang

Designing adaptive mechanisms to align individual and collective interests remains a central challenge in artificial social intelligence. Existing methods often struggle with modeling heterogeneous agents possessing persistent latent traits (e. g. , skills, preferences) and dealing with complex multi-agent system dynamics. These challenges are compounded by the critical need for high sample efficiency due to costly real-world interactions. World Models, by learning to predict environmental dynamics, offer a promising pathway to enhance mechanism design in heterogeneous and complex systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel method named SWM-AP (Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning), which learns a social world model hierarchically modeling agents' behavior to enhance mechanism design. Specifically, the social world model infers agents' traits from their interaction trajectories and learns a trait-based model to predict agents' responses to the deployed mechanisms. The mechanism design policy collects extensive training trajectories by interacting with the social world model, while concurrently inferring agents' traits online during real-world interactions to further boost policy learning efficiency. Experiments in diverse settings (tax policy design, team coordination, and facility location) demonstrate that SWM-AP outperforms established model-based and model-free RL baselines in cumulative rewards and sample efficiency.

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