2 papers
cs.CL2026
Artificial Societies Benchmark: A Validation Framework for Synthetic Research
Edoardo Chidichimo, Min Jun Jung, Felix P. S. Wallis +1
A synthetic survey can reproduce the average answer while misrepresenting how people differ, how their answers relate to one another, or how they respond to changes in conditions.…
cs.CL2026
Consequential Behaviour and Representational Fairness in the Validation of Synthetic Research
Florian Kutzner, Celina Kacperski, Laura de Molière +4
Researchers in industry and academia use synthetic survey respondents powered by large language models as substitutes for human samples. These synthetic populations require validat…