2 papers
cs.AI2026
MetaPersona: Task-Grounded Synthetic Populations from Empirical Social Science
Jinyi Ye, Yuangang Li, Chenxiao Yu +7
Personas used to seed LLM social simulations face a cold-start problem: existing methods lack a principled basis for deciding which attributes to include and how to assign their va…
cs.CL2026
PALMs: Using Multi Construct-Grounded Rationales for Modeling Population Preferences in LLMs
Priyanka Dey, Brihi Joshi, Preyashi Poddar +2
Large language models are being extensively used to simulate individual user behavior, yet faithfully representing a population requires capturing the systematic variation in value…