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20202025
most citedAuditing for Discrimination in Algorithms Delivering Job Ads

100 citations · 135 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2025

ReliabilityRAG: Effective and Provably Robust Defense for RAG-based Web-Search

Zeyu Shen, Basileal Imana, Tong Wu +3

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models by grounding their outputs in external documents. These systems, however, remain vulnerable to attacks on the re…

cs.CY2025★ 2 cited

External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery

Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann +1

The 2022 settlement between Meta and the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations of discriminatory advertising resulted is a first-of-its-kind change to Meta's ad deliver…

cs.CY2024★ 4 cited

Auditing for Bias in Ad Delivery Using Inferred Demographic Attributes

Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann

Auditing social-media algorithms has become a focus of public-interest research and policymaking to ensure their fairness across demographic groups such as race, age, and gender in…

cs.CY2024★ 9 cited

Auditing for Racial Discrimination in the Delivery of Education Ads

Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann

Digital ads on social-media platforms play an important role in shaping access to economic opportunities. Our work proposes and implements a new third-party auditing method that ca…

cs.CY2022★ 18 cited

Having your Privacy Cake and Eating it Too: Platform-supported Auditing of Social Media Algorithms for Public Interest

Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann

Social media platforms curate access to information and opportunities, and so play a critical role in shaping public discourse today. The opaque nature of the algorithms these plat…

cs.CY2021★ 100 cited

Auditing for Discrimination in Algorithms Delivering Job Ads

Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann

Ad platforms such as Facebook, Google and LinkedIn promise value for advertisers through their targeted advertising. However, multiple studies have shown that ad delivery on such p…

cs.CY2020★ 2 cited

On the Data Fight Between Cities and Mobility Providers

Guillermo Baltra, Basileal Imana, Wuxuan Jiang +1

E-Scooters are changing transportation habits. In an attempt to oversee scooter usage, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation has put forth a specification that requests deta…