MatrAIx Simulates 8.3 Billion Persona Agents for Product Evaluation.

Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou, Jintao Huang, Qianfeng Wen, Shirley Huang, Yifan Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yilan Fan, Yijun Wang, Koutian Wu, Ruoqi Gao, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Jing Tang, Brihi Joshi, Heming Liu, Zheyuan Deng, Zonglin Di, Sankalp Jajee, Jiuyao Lu, Zhiwei Zhang, Saksham Kapoor, Ishan Gupta, Yunhan Zhao, Chanwoo Park, Yucheng Lu, Bing Hu, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Hanwen Xing, Runyu Zhang, Mihir Kulshreshtha, Yuanda Xu, Qianyu Zhu, Dianzhuo Wang, Yuxin Xiao, Bowen Jiang, Yongye Su, Wenhao Chai, Zuxin Liu, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Xuandong Zhao, Ethan Ye, Shivam Patel, Jason Xie, Alex Martin Richmond, Weixiang Ding, Emre Okcular, Diya Mathew, Ziheng Wang, Rana M. Shahroz Khan, Zhejian Peng, Fang Wu, Fan Nie, Xinyang Han, Yubin Kim, Jiawei Zhang, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su, Xu Pan, Abinitha Gourabathina, Hyewon Jeong, Hemanth Neelgund Ramesh, Kumail Alhamoud, Kimia Hamidieh, Zidi Xiong, Samuel Schmidgall, Pengrui Han, Yepeng Huang, Yongheng Wang, Bowen Yang, Alex Gu, Yuchu Wang, Akshay Paruchuri, Brenna Li, Hejie Cui, Jiayuan Ding, Chaosheng Dong, Jiahao Wang, Yixuan He, Chi Wang, Pamela Bhattacharya, Tianyi Peng, Paul Pu Liang, Mitchell Gordon, Yilun Du, Marinka Zitnik, James Zou, Prasanna Tambe, Philip Torr, Emily Fox, Asu Ozdaglar, Dawn Song· August 6, 2026 View original

Key takeaways

  • MatrAIx offers a scalable infrastructure for evaluating AI and digital products with simulated users.
  • It uses 8.3 billion persona records to represent diverse user backgrounds and behaviors.
  • The system provides various environments and tasks for comprehensive testing.
  • MatrAIx captures varied user decisions and preferences, reducing reliance on costly human evaluation.

Who benefits

Software DevelopmentE-commerceMarketingProduct ManagementUX/UI Design

Summary

MatrAIx is a population-scale simulated-user evaluation infrastructure that uses 8.3 billion persona records to test AI systems and digital products. It provides diverse environments and tasks, allowing for scalable and heterogeneous user feedback.

Evaluating AI systems and digital products with human users is often expensive, slow, and difficult to scale. Offline evaluations, while more scalable, frequently fail to capture the diversity and interactive behaviors of real users. To address these limitations, MatrAIx introduces a population-scale simulated-user evaluation infrastructure designed for testing AI systems and digital products with heterogeneous users. MatrAIx comprises three main components. First, "Persona 8B" contains 8.3 billion persona records, each defined by 1,290 categorical dimensions, sampled from a dependency graph or derived from human profiles. A quality-filtered coreset of approximately 1 million personas is publicly released. Second, the "MatrAIx Playground" offers four environments—Survey, AI Chatbot, Web, and App—where diverse simulated users can interact with digital products. Third, MatrAIx includes 1,010 application tasks spanning over 25 domains, from Commerce to Healthcare. Evaluation trials using LLM-powered persona agents (Claude Opus 4.8, GPT 5.5, Claude Haiku 4.5) demonstrated that the system captures varied decisions and preferences across different persona backgrounds, such as hesitation after price changes or latency tolerance. Validation studies confirmed high persona adherence and extraction quality, establishing MatrAIx as an end-to-end solution for diverse simulated user evaluations.

Why it matters

This infrastructure offers a scalable, cost-effective alternative to human evaluation, enabling rapid and comprehensive testing of AI systems and digital products against a diverse simulated user base before real-world deployment.

How to implement this in your domain

  1. 1Evaluate current product testing and AI evaluation processes for scalability and diversity of user feedback.
  2. 2Explore integrating simulated user environments like MatrAIx into your product development lifecycle for early-stage testing.
  3. 3Develop persona profiles that accurately reflect your target user base for more realistic simulations.
  4. 4Utilize LLM-powered agents to conduct large-scale A/B testing and gather diverse feedback on product features or AI responses.

Original post by Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou, Jintao Huang, Qianfeng Wen, Shirley Huang, Yifan Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yilan Fan, Yijun Wang, Koutian Wu, Ruoqi Gao, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Jing Tang, Brihi Joshi, Heming Liu, Zheyuan Deng, Zonglin Di, Sankalp Jajee, Jiuyao Lu, Zhiwei Zhang, Saksham Kapoor, Ishan Gupta, Yunhan Zhao, Chanwoo Park, Yucheng Lu, Bing Hu, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Hanwen Xing, Runyu Zhang, Mihir Kulshreshtha, Yuanda Xu, Qianyu Zhu, Dianzhuo Wang, Yuxin Xiao, Bowen Jiang, Yongye Su, Wenhao Chai, Zuxin Liu, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Xuandong Zhao, Ethan Ye, Shivam Patel, Jason Xie, Alex Martin Richmond, Weixiang Ding, Emre Okcular, Diya Mathew, Ziheng Wang, Rana M. Shahroz Khan, Zhejian Peng, Fang Wu, Fan Nie, Xinyang Han, Yubin Kim, Jiawei Zhang, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su, Xu Pan, Abinitha Gourabathina, Hyewon Jeong, Hemanth Neelgund Ramesh, Kumail Alhamoud, Kimia Hamidieh, Zidi Xiong, Samuel Schmidgall, Pengrui Han, Yepeng Huang, Yongheng Wang, Bowen Yang, Alex Gu, Yuchu Wang, Akshay Paruchuri, Brenna Li, Hejie Cui, Jiayuan Ding, Chaosheng Dong, Jiahao Wang, Yixuan He, Chi Wang, Pamela Bhattacharya, Tianyi Peng, Paul Pu Liang, Mitchell Gordon, Yilun Du, Marinka Zitnik, James Zou, Prasanna Tambe, Philip Torr, Emily Fox, Asu Ozdaglar, Dawn Song

"arXiv:2608.04205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human evaluation of AI systems and digital products is costly, slow, and difficult to scale. Offline evaluations are more scalable but often abstract away human diversity and interactive behavior. We therefore introduce MatrAIx, a p…"

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Originally posted by Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou, Jintao Huang, Qianfeng Wen, Shirley Huang, Yifan Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yilan Fan, Yijun Wang, Koutian Wu, Ruoqi Gao, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Jing Tang, Brihi Joshi, Heming Liu, Zheyuan Deng, Zonglin Di, Sankalp Jajee, Jiuyao Lu, Zhiwei Zhang, Saksham Kapoor, Ishan Gupta, Yunhan Zhao, Chanwoo Park, Yucheng Lu, Bing Hu, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Hanwen Xing, Runyu Zhang, Mihir Kulshreshtha, Yuanda Xu, Qianyu Zhu, Dianzhuo Wang, Yuxin Xiao, Bowen Jiang, Yongye Su, Wenhao Chai, Zuxin Liu, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Xuandong Zhao, Ethan Ye, Shivam Patel, Jason Xie, Alex Martin Richmond, Weixiang Ding, Emre Okcular, Diya Mathew, Ziheng Wang, Rana M. Shahroz Khan, Zhejian Peng, Fang Wu, Fan Nie, Xinyang Han, Yubin Kim, Jiawei Zhang, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su, Xu Pan, Abinitha Gourabathina, Hyewon Jeong, Hemanth Neelgund Ramesh, Kumail Alhamoud, Kimia Hamidieh, Zidi Xiong, Samuel Schmidgall, Pengrui Han, Yepeng Huang, Yongheng Wang, Bowen Yang, Alex Gu, Yuchu Wang, Akshay Paruchuri, Brenna Li, Hejie Cui, Jiayuan Ding, Chaosheng Dong, Jiahao Wang, Yixuan He, Chi Wang, Pamela Bhattacharya, Tianyi Peng, Paul Pu Liang, Mitchell Gordon, Yilun Du, Marinka Zitnik, James Zou, Prasanna Tambe, Philip Torr, Emily Fox, Asu Ozdaglar, Dawn Song on X · view source

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