SAFO: Stable Adaptive Fairness Optimization for LLM-Based Social Survey Simulation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Social survey simulations are increasingly used to improve minority performance and social-welfare metrics. |
| Approach: | They propose a dynamic utility–fairness optimization framework for LLM-based survey simulation that explicitly targets fairness and training stability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves minority performance and social-welfare metrics on three large-scale survey datasets from China, the U.S. and Europe. |
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