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Tamunotonye Harry, Yuanyuan Feng
The authors test whether synthetic people can reproduce context-dependent behavior by modeling stable traits alongside identity states selected for each situation. They define three measures of population fidelity and show that, under stated assumptions, fixed personas cannot recover person-specific context residuals. In tests, one person-in-context implementation better matches between-person variation but misses most clinical-trial interaction directions; full recovery remains unshown.
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