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A lightweight computational method for monitoring response convergence in LLM-based synthetic populations

2026-06-30

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<h4>Background: </h4> LLM-based synthetic populations are increasingly used to simulate open-ended survey, interview, user-research, and group-style responses. These workflows can support early exploratory research, but they also create a methodological risk: agents configured as different participants may nevertheless converge towards similar wording, examples, or answer templates. Without an explicit monitoring...

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Literature Corpus work: 5c58db5a-2d42-5073-ac9d-ed08c85b68a4
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.24356.1

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