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Socio-Foundation: A Model for Generalizable Individual Behavior Simulation via Hierarchical Capability Distillation

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Briefings

The article introduces Socio-Foundation, a model for simulating individual behavior using the FONTS Taxonomy, which defines five capability dimensions: persona fidelity, outcome realization, behavioral naturalness, trajectory coherence, and social grounding. The model uses a three-stage pipeline involving DAPO, off-policy distillation, and multi-teacher on-policy distillation to decouple specialization from integration. It utilizes a standardized training corpus of approximately 10 million instances across 14 datasets and introduces the IndiEval framework to consolidate 29 metrics across the FONTS dimensions. Experiments indicate that Socio-Foundation outperforms its Qwen3-8B base by 11.0 points and approaches frontier models like GLM-5.2.

Key points

• The FONTS Taxonomy defines five capability dimensions for individual behavior simulation: persona fidelity, outcome realization, behavioral naturalness, trajectory coherence, and social grounding.
• Socio-Foundation decouples specialization from integration via a three-stage pipeline using DAPO, off-policy distillation, and multi-teacher on-policy distillation.

Context and limitations

The study relies on a single preprint version (arXiv:2610.08967v1) with limited coverage of the full dataset and evaluation metrics.

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