Zachary Yang — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Position: Time to Close The Validation Gap in LLM Social Simulations

Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Sneheel Sarangi, Aurélien Bück-Kaeffer, Zachary Yang, Jean-François Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany

ICML 2026poster

LLM-based social simulations—in which many language model agents interact over multiple turns—are rapidly proliferating across policy analysis, epidemiology, and computational social science. Yet the field lacks consensus on how to validate these simulations, with evaluation methods that are sparse,…

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2025

SandboxSocial: A Sandbox for Social Media Using Multimodal AI Agents

Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Sneheel Sarangi, Gayatri Krishnakumar, Busra Tugce Gurbuz, Austin Welch, Zachary Yang +9

IJCAI 2025

The online information ecosystem enables influence campaigns of unprecedented scale and impact. We urgently need empirically grounded approaches to counter the growing threat of malicious campaigns, now amplified by generative AI. But, developing defenses in real-world settings is impractical. Socia

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2023

Towards Detecting Contextual Real-Time Toxicity for In-Game Chat

Zachary Yang, Nicolas Grenon-Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany

EMNLP 2023long findings

Real-time toxicity detection in online environments poses a significant challenge, due to the increasing prevalence of social media and gaming platforms. We introduce ToxBuster, a simple and scalable model that reliably detects toxic content in real-time for a line of chat by including chat history…

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