3 papers
cs.CY2026
Building an Atlas of Social Experiments to Link Studies, Reconcile Conflicts, and Bridge Gaps
Jiawei Zhang, Honglin Bao, Pengda Wang +3
Social and behavioral science runs thousands of experiments each year, yet their findings rarely accumulate into a coherent map of what is known, what conflicts, and what remains m…
cs.CL2026
Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview
Pengda Wang, Huiqi Zou, Han Jiang +5
Despite their potential as human proxies, LLMs often fail to generate heterogeneous data with human-like diversity, thereby diminishing their value in advancing social science rese…
cs.CL2024
From Babbling to Fluency: Evaluating the Evolution of Language Models in Terms of Human Language Acquisition
Qiyuan Yang, Pengda Wang, Luke D. Plonsky +2
We examine the language capabilities of language models (LMs) from the critical perspective of human language acquisition. Building on classical language development theories, we p…