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most citedImproving fairness in machine learning systems: What do industry practitioners need?

758 citations

82 papers

cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

Evaluating AI-Generated Images of Cultural Artifacts with Community-Informed Rubrics

Nari Johnson, Deepthi Sudharsan, Hamna +7

Measurement is essential to improving AI performance and mitigating harms for marginalized groups. As generative AI systems are rapidly deployed across geographies and contexts, AI…

cs.CY2026

Effects of Generative AI Errors on User Reliance Across Task Difficulty

Jacy Reese Anthis, Hannah Cha, Solon Barocas +2

The capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) lie along a jagged frontier, where AI systems surprisingly fail on tasks that humans find easy and succeed on tasks that humans fin…

cs.HC2025★ 52 cited

Fostering Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models: The Role of Explanations, Sources, and Inconsistencies

Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Q. Vera Liao +2

Large language models (LLMs) can produce erroneous responses that sound fluent and convincing, raising the risk that users will rely on these responses as if they were correct. Mit…

cs.HC2025★ 11 cited

Media Bias Detector: Designing and Implementing a Tool for Real-Time Selection and Framing Bias Analysis in News Coverage

Jenny S Wang, Samar Haider, Amir Tohidi +5

Mainstream media, through their decisions on what to cover and how to frame the stories they cover, can mislead readers without using outright falsehoods. Therefore, it is crucial…

cs.CY2025★ 56 cited

From Efficiency Gains to Rebound Effects: The Problem of Jevons' Paradox in AI's Polarized Environmental Debate

Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, Emma Strubell, Kate Crawford

As the climate crisis deepens, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a contested force: some champion its potential to advance renewable energy, materials discovery, and larg…

cs.CY2024★ 4 cited

What Constitutes a Less Discriminatory Algorithm?

Benjamin Laufer, Manish Raghavan, Solon Barocas

Disparate impact doctrine offers an important legal apparatus for targeting discriminatory data-driven algorithmic decisions. A recent body of work has focused on conceptualizing o…

cs.HC2024★ 8 cited

Supporting Industry Computing Researchers in Assessing, Articulating, and Addressing the Potential Negative Societal Impact of Their Work

Wesley Hanwen Deng, Solon Barocas, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Recent years have witnessed increasing calls for computing researchers to grapple with the societal impacts of their work. Tools such as impact assessments have gained prominence a…

cs.HC2024★ 12 cited

The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing

Alice Qian Zhang, Ryland Shaw, Jacy Reese Anthis +9

Rapid progress in general-purpose AI has sparked significant interest in "red teaming," a practice of adversarial testing originating in military and cybersecurity applications. AI…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Fast and Interpretable Mortality Risk Scores for Critical Care Patients

Chloe Qinyu Zhu, Muhang Tian, Lesia Semenova +4

Prediction of mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients typically relies on black box models (that are unacceptable for use in hospitals) or hand-tuned interpretable models (…

cs.AI2022★ 21 cited

Mimetic Models: Ethical Implications of AI that Acts Like You

Reid McIlroy-Young, Jon Kleinberg, Siddhartha Sen +2

An emerging theme in artificial intelligence research is the creation of models to simulate the decisions and behavior of specific people, in domains including game-playing, text g…

cs.LG2022★ 22 cited

Interpretability, Then What? Editing Machine Learning Models to Reflect Human Knowledge and Values

Zijie J. Wang, Alex Kale, Harsha Nori +6

Machine learning (ML) interpretability techniques can reveal undesirable patterns in data that models exploit to make predictions--potentially causing harms once deployed. However,…

cs.CY2022★ 105 cited

Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics

Richmond Y. Wong, Michael A. Madaio, Nick Merrill

Numerous toolkits have been developed to support ethical AI development. However, toolkits, like all tools, encode assumptions in their design about what work should be done and ho…

stat.AP2021★ 8 cited

Blocks as geographic discontinuities: The effect of polling place assignment on voting

Sabina Tomkins, Keniel Yao, Johann Gaebler +4

A potential voter must incur a number of costs in order to successfully cast an in-person ballot, including the costs associated with identifying and traveling to a polling place.…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Confidence-Budget Matching for Sequential Budgeted Learning

Yonathan Efroni, Nadav Merlis, Aadirupa Saha +1

A core element in decision-making under uncertainty is the feedback on the quality of the performed actions. However, in many applications, such feedback is restricted. For example…

cs.SI2020★ 172 cited

Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube

Homa Hosseinmardi, Amir Ghasemian, Aaron Clauset +3

Although it is under-studied relative to other social media platforms, YouTube is arguably the largest and most engaging online media consumption platform in the world. Recently, Y…

cs.AI2020★ 19 cited

Learning Models of Individual Behavior in Chess

Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen +2

AI systems that can capture human-like behavior are becoming increasingly useful in situations where humans may want to learn from these systems, collaborate with them, or engage w…

cs.AI2020★ 80 cited

Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System

Reid McIlroy-Young, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg +1

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly intelligent---in some cases, achieving superhuman performance---there is growing potential for humans to learn from and collaborate…

cs.CY2020

Mathematical Foundations for Social Computing

Yiling Chen, Arpita Ghosh, Michael Kearns +2

Social computing encompasses the mechanisms through which people interact with computational systems: crowdsourcing systems, ranking and recommendation systems, online prediction m…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Bandits with adversarial scaling

Thodoris Lykouris, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme

We study "adversarial scaling", a multi-armed bandit model where rewards have a stochastic and an adversarial component. Our model captures display advertising where the "click-thr…

cs.GT2020★ 12 cited

Equitable Allocations of Indivisible Chores

Rupert Freeman, Sujoy Sikdar, Rohit Vaish +1

We study fair allocation of indivisible chores (i.e., items with non-positive value) among agents with additive valuations. An allocation is deemed fair if it is (approximately) eq…

cs.LG2019★ 17 cited

Scalable Hierarchical Clustering with Tree Grafting

Nicholas Monath, Ari Kobren, Akshay Krishnamurthy +2

We introduce Grinch, a new algorithm for large-scale, non-greedy hierarchical clustering with general linkage functions that compute arbitrary similarity between two point sets. Th…

cs.CR2019★ 139 cited

Decentralized & Collaborative AI on Blockchain

Justin D. Harris, Bo Waggoner

Machine learning has recently enabled large advances in artificial intelligence, but these tend to be highly centralized. The large datasets required are generally proprietary; pre…

cs.GT2019★ 50 cited

Truthful Aggregation of Budget Proposals

Rupert Freeman, David M. Pennock, Dominik Peters +1

We consider a participatory budgeting problem in which each voter submits a proposal for how to divide a single divisible resource (such as money or time) among several possible al…

cs.GT2019★ 2 cited

The Perils of Exploration under Competition: A Computational Modeling Approach

Guy Aridor, Kevin Liu, Aleksandrs Slivkins +1

We empirically study the interplay between exploration and competition. Systems that learn from interactions with users often engage in exploration: making potentially suboptimal d…