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most citedAn Agent-based Model to Evaluate Interventions on Online Dating Platforms to Decrease Racial Homogamy

9 citations · 10 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.SI2026

The Effect of Expertise Signaling when Sharing Medical Information in Opinion Dynamics

Moyi Li, Chuqiao Yan, Jesus Jair Reyes Gutierrez +2

Social media heavily influences health decisions, yet few opinion dynamics models account for how information is delivered. This work investigates how signaling source expertise sh…

cs.AI2026

Prompt Revision as a Source of Cultural Bias in Text-to-Image Systems

Aleksandra Urman, Elsa Lichtenegger, Salima Jaoua +7

Commercial text-to-image systems silently revise user prompts before generating images, a step users typically cannot disable or even see. Yet, existing audits of cultural bias exa…

cs.CY2025

Visibility Allocation Systems: How Algorithmic Design Shapes Online Visibility and Societal Outcomes

Stefania Ionescu, Robin Forsberg, Elsa Lichtenegger +4

Throughout application domains, we now rely extensively on algorithmic systems to engage with ever-expanding datasets of information. Despite their benefits, these systems are ofte…

cs.CY2025

The Order of Recommendation Matters: Structured Exploration for Improving the Fairness of Content Creators

Salima Jaoua, Nicolò Pagan, Anikó Hannák +1

Social media platforms provide millions of professional content creators with sustainable incomes. Their income is largely influenced by their number of views and followers, which…

cs.SI2023★ 1 cited

Individual Fairness for Social Media Influencers

Stefania Ionescu, Nicolo Pagan, Aniko Hannak

Nowadays, many social media platforms are centered around content creators (CC). On these platforms, the tie formation process depends on two factors: (a) the exposure of users to…

cs.CY2022

A Data-Driven Simulation of the New York State Foster Care System

Yuhao Du, Stefania Ionescu, Melanie Sage +1

We introduce an analytic pipeline to model and simulate youth trajectories through the New York state foster care system. Our goal in doing so is to forecast how proposed intervent…

cs.LG2021

Incentives in Two-sided Matching Markets with Prediction-enhanced Preference-formation

Stefania Ionescu, Yuhao Du, Kenneth Joseph +1

Two-sided matching markets have long existed to pair agents in the absence of regulated exchanges. A common example is school choice, where a matching mechanism uses student and sc…

cs.CY2021★ 9 cited

An Agent-based Model to Evaluate Interventions on Online Dating Platforms to Decrease Racial Homogamy

Stefania Ionescu, Aniko Hannak, Kenneth Joseph

Perhaps the most controversial questions in the study of online platforms today surround the extent to which platforms can intervene to reduce the societal ills perpetrated on them…