Are LLM Agents Behaviorally Coherent? Latent Profiles for Social Simulation

ArXi:2509.03736v2 Announce Type: replace The impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) raise the possibility that synthetic agents can serve as substitutes for real participants in human-subject research. To evaluate this claim, prior research has largely focused on whether LLM-generated survey responses align with those produced by human respondents whom the LLMs are prompted to represent.