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Valid Survey Simulations with Limited Human Data: The Roles of Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and Rectification
Stefan Krsteski, Giuseppe Russo, Serina Chang, Robert West, Kristina Gligori\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11408

Valid Survey Simulations with Limited Human Data: The Roles of Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and Rectification
Surveys provide valuable insights into public opinion and behavior, but their execution is costly and slow. Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as a scalable, low-cost substitute for human respondents, but their outputs are often biased and yield invalid estimates. We study the interplay between synthesis methods that use LLMs to generate survey responses and rectification methods that debias population estimates, and explore how human responses are best allocated between them. Usin…

Jaguars' Liam Coen responds to 49ers' Robert Saleh's comments about signal-stealing system https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6665744/2025/09/26/sign-stealing-robert-saleh-liam-coen-49ers-jaguars/

RIP Robert A. M. Stern. He was brilliant. Best historian I ever had the privilege of working with.

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