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Decision Models outperform LLMs in economic simulations, offering faster, cheaper human surrogates · 2…

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A new class of AI models called Decision Models (DMs) has been evaluated as surrogates for humans in economic simulations and surveys. These DMs demonstrated faster response times and lower costs compared to large-language models (LLMs), while also better capturing the variation in human behavior across different economic settings. Specifically, Frontier DMs, which perform highly on decision-making benchmarks, reproduced human response variations more closely than LLMs in a spending survey, economic games, and a labor-market experiment, though they were less effective in economic games. AI

IMPACT Decision Models could enable more scalable and cost-effective economic simulations, potentially leading to new insights in behavioral economics and policy.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new class of AI models and their evaluation.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Maxime Saxena, Fabio Caccioli, R. Maria del Rio-Chanona ·

    Decision Models as Scalable Economic Surrogates that Capture Human Variation

    arXiv:2611.05553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decision Models (DMs), a new class of AI models, give fast responses and return a probability distribution over a fixed set of options. These properties make them candidate human surrogates in economic simulations and surveys, a r…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · R. Maria del Rio-Chanona ·

    Decision Models as Scalable Economic Surrogates that Capture Human Variation

    Decision Models (DMs), a new class of AI models, give fast responses and return a probability distribution over a fixed set of options. These properties make them candidate human surrogates in economic simulations and surveys, a role increasingly filled by Large Language Models (…

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