2 papers
cs.CL2026
Emulate or Estimate? The Divergent Strengths of Base and Post-Trained Language Models for Opinion Simulation
Seth Grief-Albert, Jessica Bo, Difan Jiao +1
Large language models are increasingly used to simulate human opinions, but prior work reports conflicting results: some studies find promising alignment with human survey data, wh…
cs.AI2026
Grounded Chess Reasoning in Language Models via Master Distillation
Zhenwei Tang, Qianfeng Wen, Seth Grief-Albert +4
Language models often lack grounded reasoning capabilities in specialized domains where training data is scarce but bespoke systems excel. We introduce a general framework for dist…