Yuxuan Cai

Can Large Language Models Represent Urban Publics? Behavioral Replication and Population Mismatch in an Affordable-Housing Experiment

There is growing interest in using large language models (LLMs) as low-cost proxies for resident attitudes in urban planning. Previous work shows that LLMs can predict average results of survey experiments, but less is known about whether they preserve the spatially anchored, identity-conditioned structure behind those...