Aleksandar Tomašević
atomashevic.bsky.social
Aleksandar Tomašević
@atomashevic.bsky.social
Computational Social Science.

Assistant professor at University of Novi Sad.

🕸🐍🐧👨🏻‍💻 #RStats (random ordering).

www.atomasevic.com
Rough first version of the paper is on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.21740

Full paper with robustness analysis up in a few weeks.
Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology
Large Language Models (LLMs) enable generative social simulations that can capture culturally informed, norm-guided interaction on online social platforms. We build a technology community simulation m...
arxiv.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fails: Identity persistence, long-term coherence, true preferential attachment. ❌

Memoryless setup prevents identity formation; network core is more difuse, no agent differentiation in stylistic alignment.
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
100% AI generated :)
March 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you want to take a quick look at (subset) of MADOC, Python and R packages are available:

pypi.org/project/pyma...

github.com/atomashevic/...
pymadoc
Python package to download and combine parts of MADOC dataset
pypi.org
January 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
But package is primarily built for #Rstats users with limited or zero knowledge of #Python.

The package mimics and simplifies the usage of transformers library in Python, so you can perform inference, run small tasks in a few lines of R code without worrying what is happening in the background.
March 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM