Papers with network-aware analysis
Synthia: Scalable Grounded Persona Generation from Social Media Data (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Persona-driven large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in computational social science, yet their validity critically depends on the fidelity of the underlying personas. |
| Approach: | They propose a persona-generation framework that grounds LLM-generated personas in real social-media posts while delegating narrative construction to language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods for most demographics across different dimensions while maintaining interaction graph structure among personas grounded in real social network users. |