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Digital Twins for Opinion Dynamics: A Generative LLM Framework for Social Networks

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

The study of opinion dynamics in social networks is one of the key challenges in computational social science with direct relevance to understanding political polarization, misinformation, and health responses. Current approaches focus on simplified mathematical models that ignore linguistic and contextual factors related to belief updates or use Large Language Model (LLM)-based simulations that have not been validated against real data. We present a framework based on the concept of a digital twin to simulate opinion dynamics in social networks. The approach fills the gap by cloning a real-wo

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