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Happy to share that our StudentSim paper has been selected for a 🌟 Spotlight presentation at the UserSim Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026 in Paris!View quoted post on X
Many thanks to my collaborators and advisors for their support!
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.01591
💻 Code: github.com/microsoft/Stud…
🔥Siebel School is rolling up to EMNLP 2026! 🔥View quoted post on X
User simulators are only as faithful as the user representations they are conditioned on.
Missing details force simulators to fill gaps with assumptions, leading to generic behavior⚠️
Introducing UserRepGen-4B, which generates representations optimized for simulation fidelity.View quoted post on X
Grateful to Microsoft Research for featuring our work, StudentSim!View quoted post on X
Since its release, we've been amazed by the attention it has received, not only from the education community, where professors have called it "the very first foundational work in this area" and shared that they'd envisioned this direction long before data and training made it possible, but also from researchers and project leads working on user simulation in recommender systems, healthcare, and financial services.
It's exciting to see a shared recognition of the importance and potential of user simulation for personalized AI services.
Hope StudentSim can be a useful stepping stone for the community!
PSI-Bench won the best paper award at Social Simulation with LLMs workshop at @COLM_conf !
We introduce a framework for interpretable and clinically meaningful evaluation of depression patient simulators. Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2604.25840View quoted post on X
