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07/27/2023
Reconciling the accuracy-diversity trade-off in recommendations
In recommendation settings, there is an apparent trade-off between the g...
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07/23/2023
Interface Design to Mitigate Inflation in Recommender Systems
Recommendation systems rely on user-provided data to learn about item qu...
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07/20/2023
Large language models shape and are shaped by society: A survey of arXiv publication patterns
There has been a steep recent increase in the number of large language m...
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07/17/2023
Reflections from the Workshop on AI-Assisted Decision Making for Conservation
In this white paper, we synthesize key points made during presentations ...
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05/27/2023
Choosing the Right Weights: Balancing Value, Strategy, and Noise in Recommender Systems
Many recommender systems are based on optimizing a linear weighting of d...
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04/18/2023
Coarse race data conceals disparities in clinical risk score performance
Healthcare data in the United States often records only a patient's coar...
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07/10/2022
Parametric Empirical Bayes for Predicting Quality in Rating Systems
User-solicited ratings systems in online marketplaces suffer from a cold...
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06/27/2022
Supply-Side Equilibria in Recommender Systems
Digital recommender systems such as Spotify and Netflix affect not only ...
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05/15/2022
Trucks Don't Mean Trump: Diagnosing Human Error in Image Analysis
Algorithms provide powerful tools for detecting and dissecting human bia...
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04/19/2022
Equity in Resident Crowdsourcing: Measuring Under-reporting without Ground Truth Data
Modern city governance relies heavily on crowdsourcing (or "co-productio...
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03/21/2022
Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential
This study proposes voltage-dependent-synaptic plasticity (VDSP), a nove...
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01/29/2022
Fair ranking: a critical review, challenges, and future directions
Ranking, recommendation, and retrieval systems are widely used in online...
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09/22/2021
Alzheimers Dementia Detection using Acoustic Linguistic features and Pre-Trained BERT
Alzheimers disease is a fatal progressive brain disorder that worsens wi...
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09/16/2021
Strategic Ranking
Strategic classification studies the design of a classifier robust to th...
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07/19/2021
Test-optional Policies: Overcoming Strategic Behavior and Informational Gaps
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 500 US-based colleges and univer...
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07/15/2021
Combatting Gerrymandering with Social Choice: the Design of Multi-member Districts
Every representative democracy must specify a mechanism under which vote...
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06/23/2021
The Stereotyping Problem in Collaboratively Filtered Recommender Systems
Recommender systems – and especially matrix factorization-based collabor...
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06/10/2021
Wheelchair automation by a hybrid BCI system using SSVEP and eye blinks
This work proposes a hybrid Brain Computer Interface system for the auto...
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10/09/2020
Standardized Tests and Affirmative Action: The Role of Bias and Variance
The University of California recently suspended through 2024 the require...
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11/07/2019
Fair Allocation through Selective Information Acquisition
Public and private institutions must often allocate scare resources unde...
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06/19/2019
Who is in Your Top Three? Optimizing Learning in Elections with Many Candidates
Elections and opinion polls often have many candidates, with the aim to ...
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05/18/2019
Driver Surge Pricing
Uber and Lyft ride-hailing marketplaces use dynamic pricing, often calle...
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04/02/2019
Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass Shootings
We provide an NLP framework to uncover four linguistic dimensions of pol...
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10/30/2018
Designing Informative Rating Systems for Online Platforms: Evidence from Two Experiments
Platforms critically rely on rating systems to learn the quality of mark...
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07/27/2018
Markets for Public Decision-making
A public decision-making problem consists of a set of issues, each with ...
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06/18/2018
Designing Optimal Binary Rating Systems
Modern online platforms rely on effective rating systems to learn about ...
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11/22/2017
Word Embeddings Quantify 100 Years of Gender and Ethnic Stereotypes
Word embeddings use vectors to represent words such that the geometry be...
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02/26/2017
Iterative Local Voting for Collective Decision-making in Continuous Spaces
Many societal decision problems lie in high-dimensional continuous space...
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