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Incoherent by Design? On the Moral Self-Consistency of LLMs
Pegah Nokhiz, Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana, Helen Nissenbaum
LLMs are increasingly used in morally sensitive contexts, yet it is unclear whether they apply ethical principles consistently across situations. A model that can state a moral pri…
Consumer Autonomy or Illusion? Rethinking Consumer Agency in the Age of Algorithms
Pegah Nokhiz, Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana
Consumer agency in the digital age is increasingly constrained by systemic barriers and algorithmic manipulation, raising concerns about the authenticity of consumption choices. No…
Rethinking Optimization: A Systems-Based Approach to Social Externalities
Pegah Nokhiz, Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana, Helen Nissenbaum
Optimization is widely used for decision making across various domains, valued for its ability to improve efficiency. However, poor implementation practices can lead to unintended…
Counting Hours, Counting Losses: The Toll of Unpredictable Work Schedules on Financial Security
Pegah Nokhiz, Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana, Aditya Bhaskara +1
Financial instability has become a significant issue in today's society. While research typically focuses on financial aspects, there is a tendency to overlook time-related aspects…
Precarity: Modeling the Long Term Effects of Compounded Decisions on Individual Instability
Pegah Nokhiz, Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana, Neal Patwari +1
When it comes to studying the impacts of decision making, the research has been largely focused on examining the fairness of the decisions, the long-term effects of the decision pi…
P-SIF: Document Embeddings Using Partition Averaging
Vivek Gupta, Ankit Saw, Pegah Nokhiz +3
Simple weighted averaging of word vectors often yields effective representations for sentences which outperform sophisticated seq2seq neural models in many tasks. While it is desir…
INFOTABS: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured Data
Vivek Gupta, Maitrey Mehta, Pegah Nokhiz +1
In this paper, we observe that semi-structured tabulated text is ubiquitous; understanding them requires not only comprehending the meaning of text fragments, but also implicit rel…
Improving Document Classification with Multi-Sense Embeddings
Vivek Gupta, Ankit Saw, Pegah Nokhiz +2
Efficient representation of text documents is an important building block in many NLP tasks. Research on long text categorization has shown that simple weighted averaging of word v…
Equalizing Recourse across Groups
Vivek Gupta, Pegah Nokhiz, Chitradeep Dutta Roy +1
The rise in machine learning-assisted decision-making has led to concerns about the fairness of the decisions and techniques to mitigate problems of discrimination. If a negative d…