NeurIPS 2026 Competition: Benchmarking AI for Population Simulation
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-27
SimulacraBench is a NeurIPS 2026 competition benchmarking AI's ability to simulate hard-to-reach populations. It uses unreleased microdata from UNHCR, UNICEF, and the World Bank, covering 40,000 respondents across 14 countries. The goal is to validate if algorithmic predictions can achieve classical survey accuracy at lower cost and time for tasks like pre-testing instruments and imputing non-responses.
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