@misc{zhang2026rethinkingsocialsimulationopenpopulation,
  title={Rethinking Social Simulation in Open-Population Systems: From Persistent Agents to Communication Processes},
  author={Yunyao Zhang and Yihao Ai and Boqi Xu and Zuocheng Ying and Junqing Yu and Zikai Song},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2610.37687},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.MA},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37687},
}