2026
Position: Time to Close The Validation Gap in LLM Social Simulations
Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Sneheel Sarangi, Aurélien Bück-Kaeffer, Zachary Yang, Jean-François Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany
ICML 2026poster
LLM-based social simulations—in which many language model agents interact over multiple turns—are rapidly proliferating across policy analysis, epidemiology, and computational social science. Yet the field lacks consensus on how to validate these simulations, with evaluation methods that are sparse,…