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20032022
most cited'Beating the news' with EMBERS: Forecasting Civil Unrest using Open Source Indicators

47 citations · 236 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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43 papers

cs.DS2022

Improved Bi-point Rounding Algorithms and a Golden Barrier for -Median

Kishen N. Gowda, Thomas Pensyl, Aravind Srinivasan +1

The current best approximation algorithms for -median rely on first obtaining a structured fractional solution known as a bi-point solution, and then rounding it to an integer s…

cs.DS2022★ 2 cited

Controlling Epidemic Spread using Probabilistic Diffusion Models on Networks

Amy Babay, Michael Dinitz, Aravind Srinivasan +2

The spread of an epidemic is often modeled by an SIR random process on a social network graph. The MinINF problem for optimal social distancing involves minimizing the expected num…

cs.AI2022

Deploying Vaccine Distribution Sites for Improved Accessibility and Equity to Support Pandemic Response

George Li, Ann Li, Madhav Marathe +3

In response to COVID-19, many countries have mandated social distancing and banned large group gatherings in order to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2. These social interventions…

cs.GT2022★ 2 cited

Rawlsian Fairness in Online Bipartite Matching: Two-sided, Group, and Individual

Seyed A. Esmaeili, Sharmila Duppala, Davidson Cheng +3

Online bipartite-matching platforms are ubiquitous and find applications in important areas such as crowdsourcing and ridesharing. In the most general form, the platform consists o…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Planning to Fairly Allocate: Probabilistic Fairness in the Restless Bandit Setting

Christine Herlihy, Aviva Prins, Aravind Srinivasan +1

Restless and collapsing bandits are often used to model budget-constrained resource allocation in settings where arms have action-dependent transition probabilities, such as the al…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Fair Clustering Under a Bounded Cost

Seyed A. Esmaeili, Brian Brubach, Aravind Srinivasan +1

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning problem where a dataset is partitioned into clusters that consist of nearby points in a metric space. A recent variant, fair clust…