6 papers
Population Fidelity: Evaluating Population Representativeness in LLMs
Neemias B. da Silva, Martin Lukk, Ali Sutani +5
Large language models (LLMs) show considerable potential in simulating human attitudes and preferences. Prior work finds that LLM-generated responses can compress the range of atti…
Stable Behavior, Limited Variation: Persona Validity in LLM Agents for Urban Sentiment Perception
Neemias B da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto, Daniel Silver +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proxies for human perception in urban analysis, yet it remains unclear whether persona prompting produces meaningful and repro…
Persona Prompting in Multimodal Urban Perception: Descriptive Convergence and Interpretive Variation
Neemias da Silva, Matt Ratto, Myriam Delgado +3
This study examines how persona prompting shapes language generated by two multimodal large language models in urban perception, a setting for examining subjective interpretations…
A Relational Model of Neighborhood Mobility: The Role of Amenities and Cultural Alignment
Thiago H Silva, Daniel Silver, Gustavo Santos +1
Why are some neighborhoods strongly connected while others remain isolated? Although standard explanations focus on demographics, economics, and geography, movement across the city…
Bubble reachers and uncivil discourse in polarized online public sphere
Jordan K Kobellarz, Milos Brocic, Daniel Silver +1
Early optimism saw possibilities for social media to renew democratic discourse, marked by hopes for individuals from diverse backgrounds to find opportunities to learn from and in…
Using Graph Neural Networks to Predict Local Culture
Thiago H Silva, Daniel Silver
Urban research has long recognized that neighbourhoods are dynamic and relational. However, lack of data, methodologies, and computer processing power have hampered a formal quanti…