InterviewSim: A Scalable Framework for Interview-Grounded Personality Simulation
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arXiv:2602.20294v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulating real personalities with large language models requires grounding generation in authentic personal data. Existing evaluation approaches rely on demographic surveys, personality questionnaires, or short AI-led interviews as proxies, but lack direct assessment against what individuals actually said. We address this gap with an interview-grounded evaluation framework for personality simulation at a large scale. We extract over 671,000 question-answer pairs from 23,000 verified interview transcripts across 1,000 public personaliti
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2602.20294v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulating real personalities with large language models requires grounding generation in authentic personal data.
- Existing evaluation approaches rely on demographic surveys, personality questionnaires, or short AI-led interviews as proxies, but lack direct assessment against what individuals actually said.
- We address this gap with an interview-grounded evaluation framework for personality simulation at a large scale.
Why it matters
“InterviewSim: A Scalable Framework for Interview-Grounded Personality Simulation” highlights the need for repeatable measurement rather than a single impressive demonstration. Independent validation across datasets and clearly stated limitations determine whether a result can guide product decisions.

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