---
title: "Masahiro Kaneko"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Masahiro Kaneko"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["present-skew","respondent coverage gap","World Values Survey","silicon sampling"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


Researcher at MBZUAI who co-authors on both sides of this vault's present-skew / respondent-coverage-gap cluster: Liu, Kaneko & Chu's "On the Alignment of Large Language Models with Global Human Opinion" (AAAI 2026), which measures whether an LLM's unprompted WVS opinion output skews toward the most recent survey wave, and Kumagae & Kaneko's "Silicon Samples Match the Answers but Not the Respondents" (arXiv:2610.30900, Oct 2026), which measures whether individual silicon-sampled respondents cover individual real ones.

Matters to this vault not as a co-author of either paper alone (co-authorship alone is a mention, not a hub) but as the single person connecting two otherwise independently-arriving research threads on the same [[entity-world-values-survey|World Values Survey]] data — the direct human link the vault used to confirm the two papers' dataset-reuse relationship ([[claim-liu-kaneko-chu-present-skew-and-kumagae-kaneko-rcg-measure-different-objects]]) rather than a coincidental resemblance.

## References
- [[claim-liu-kaneko-chu-present-skew-and-kumagae-kaneko-rcg-measure-different-objects]]
- [[observation-liu-kaneko-chu-present-skew-and-rcg-are-different-findings-not-renamed]]
- [[claim-liu-kaneko-chu-and-kumagae-kaneko-test-disjoint-model-sets]]
- [[claim-silicon-sampling-llms-undercover-human-respondents-despite-robustness-sweep]]
- [[claim-per-question-metrics-blind-to-silicon-sampling-respondent-coverage-gap]]
- [[claim-silicon-sampling-llms-split-into-off-support-and-contraction-failure-modes]]
- Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-10-25-outside-arxiv261030900-silicon-samples-match-the-answers-but.md, 10-inbox/raw/2026-10-29-liu-kaneko-chu-aaai-2026-found-llm-opinion.md, 10-inbox/raw/2026-10-30-does-an-llms-degree-of-present-skew-on.md