7 papers
In-Context Learning for the Imputation of Public Opinion Data with Large Language Models
Tobias Holtdirk, Georg Ahnert, Joseph W Sakshaug +1
Large language models have been widely evaluated as simulators of individual survey responses. In practice, however, fully unobserved responses are rare; the dominant problem is pa…
Survey Response Generation: Generating Closed-Ended Survey Responses In-Silico with Large Language Models
Georg Ahnert, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Barbara Plank +1
Many in-silico simulations of human survey responses with large language models (LLMs) focus on generating closed-ended survey responses, whereas LLMs are typically trained to gene…
QSTN: A Modular Framework for Robust Questionnaire Inference with Large Language Models
Maximilian Kreutner, Jens Rupprecht, Georg Ahnert +2
We introduce QSTN, an open-source Python framework for systematically generating responses from questionnaire-style prompts to support in-silico surveys and annotation tasks with l…
Prompt Perturbations Reveal Human-Like Biases in Large Language Model Survey Responses
Jens Rupprecht, Georg Ahnert, Markus Strohmaier
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proxies for human subjects in social science surveys, but their reliability and susceptibility to known human-like response bi…
Simulating Persuasive Dialogues on Meat Reduction with Generative Agents
Georg Ahnert, Elena Wurth, Markus Strohmaier +1
Meat reduction benefits human and planetary health, but social norms keep meat central in shared meals. To date, the development of communication strategies that promote meat reduc…
The Prompt Makes the Person(a): A Systematic Evaluation of Sociodemographic Persona Prompting for Large Language Models
Marlene Lutz, Indira Sen, Georg Ahnert +2
Persona prompting is increasingly used in large language models (LLMs) to simulate views of various sociodemographic groups. However, how a persona prompt is formulated can signifi…