Homophily under model substitution
Testing whether an emergent social result survives model substitution.
Artifacts
- Dashboard
- Research note
Why
Replication under model substitution tests whether an apparent social mechanism is robust to the language model used to instantiate it.
Approach
A force-directed graph makes community formation visible over rounds, paired with a diversity score and bootstrap analysis.
Results
The live dashboard layers the simulation, comparison, and methodology for readers with different levels of technical depth.
Things I got wrong
The first visual explanations assumed too much graph-theory fluency. Showing the network settle over time made the mechanism clearer than adding more annotation.
Future work
Complete the written replication note and extend the comparison across model families.