Distributional Validity of a Korean Synthetic Persona Panel: Evidence From the Korea Media Panel Survey

arXiv:2608.28615 · cs.CY, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-07-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.CY, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-07-23

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Calibration — 56× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Homogenization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Korea Information Society Development Institute — 2× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Transferability — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Age Gradients — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
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• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Paper Review — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• LLM Agents Grounded in Self-Reports Enable General-Purpose Simulation of Individuals
• Polypersona: Persona-Grounded LLM for Synthetic Survey Responses
• When Can Digital Personas Reliably Approximate Human Survey Findings?
• Questioning the Survey Responses of Large Language Models
• Acquiescence Bias in Large Language Models
• Assessing the Reliability of Persona-Conditioned LLMs as Synthetic Survey Respondents
• Whose Personae? Synthetic Persona Experiments in LLM Research and Pathways to Transparency
• Large Language Models for Market Research: A Data-augmentation Approach
• Improving Cross-Cultural Survey Simulation with Calibrated Value Personas

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