When Synthetic Users Fail: A Cross-Domain Benchmark of LLM-Simulated Human Survey Responses
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Zihan Chen, Di Zhu, Lei Nico Zheng
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Zihan Chen, Di Zhu, Lei Nico Zheng
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LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.
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LLMA large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.Full definition → personas over-determine demographics and lose to simple statistical baselines at the individual level — and a larger, more capable model does not close the gap.
