参数化社会身份注入(PSII):用于公众舆论模拟的多样性提升框架
阅读原文· arxiv.org大语言模型(LLM)作为合成智能体进行公众舆论模拟时存在“多样性崩溃”问题——不同社会身份的表征在层间逐渐不可区分,导致响应同质化。为此提出参数化社会身份注入(PSII)框架,将人口统计属性与价值取向的显式参数化表示注入LLM中间隐藏状态,实现细粒度可控的身份调制。基于World Values Survey对多个开源LLM的实验显示,PSII显著提升了分布保真度与多样性,降低了与真实调查数据的KL散度。
Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted as synthetic agents for public opinion simulation, offering a promising alternative to costly and slow human surveys. Despite their scalability, current LLM-based simulation methods fail to capture social diversity, producing flattened inter-group differences and overly homogeneous responses across demographic groups. We identify this limitation as a Diversity Collapse phenomenon in LLM hidden representations, where distinct social identities become increasingly indistinguishable across layers. Motivated by this observation, we propose Parametric Social Identity Injection (PSII), a general framework that injects explicit, parametric representations of demographic attributes and value orientations directly into intermediate hidden states of LLMs. Unlike prompt-based persona conditioning, PSII enables fine-grained and controllable identity modulation at the representation level. Extensive experiments on the World Values Survey using multiple open-source LLMs show that PSII significantly improves distributional fidelity and diversity, reducing KL divergence to real-world survey data while enhancing overall diversity. This work provides new insights into representation-level control of LLM agents and advances scalable, diversity-aware public opinion simulation.