3 papers
cs.CY2026
Examining and Addressing Barriers to Diversity in LLM-Generated Ideas
Yuting Deng, Melanie Brucks, Olivier Toubia
Ideas generated by independent samples of humans tend to be more diverse than ideas generated from independent LLM samples, raising concerns that widespread reliance on LLMs could…
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…
cs.CY2025
Twin-2K-500: A dataset for building digital twins of over 2,000 people based on their answers to over 500 questions
Olivier Toubia, George Z. Gui, Tianyi Peng +3
LLM-based digital twin simulation, where large language models are used to emulate individual human behavior, holds great promise for research in AI, social science, and digital ex…