3 papers
cs.CY2026
ExploraTwin, a Non-Profit Research Platform for Digital Twin Simulations
Naveen Venkat, Yuchen Qiu, Tianyi Peng +2
Digital twin simulations show promise, but current empirical evidence suggests that the approach should be tested before being deployed in any particular context. To lower the fric…
econ.EM2025
Leveraging LLMs to Improve Experimental Design: A Generative Stratification Approach
George Gui, Seungwoo Kim
Pre-experiment stratification, or blocking, is a well-established technique for designing more efficient experiments and increasing the precision of the experimental estimates. How…
cs.CY2025
Digital Twins as Funhouse Mirrors: Five Key Distortions
Tianyi Peng, George Gui, Melanie Brucks +20
Scientists and practitioners are increasingly moving to deploy digital twins--LLM-based models of real individuals--across social science and policy research. We conduct 19 pre-reg…