6 papers
MetaOthello: A Controlled Study of Multiple World Models in Transformers
Aviral Chawla, Galen Hall, Juniper Lovato
Foundation models must handle multiple generative processes, yet mechanistic interpretability largely studies capabilities in isolation; it remains unclear how a single transformer…
Who Brought Easter Eggs to Eid? Auditing Cultural Translation of Math Word Problems Across Diverse Languages and Regions
Parisa Suchdev, Juniper Lovato
Large language models are increasingly used to adapt math word problems for personalized learning at scale, but it remains an open question whether those adaptations are consistent…
Defining and classifying models of groups: The social ontology of higher-order networks
Jonathan St-Onge, Randall Harp, Giulio Burgio +3
In complex systems research, the study of higher-order interactions has exploded in recent years. Researchers have formalized various types of group interactions, such as public go…
Ethical Frameworks for Conducting Social Challenge Studies
Protiva Sen, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Pablo Bose +1
Computational social science research, particularly online studies, often involves exposing participants to the adverse phenomenon the researchers aim to study. Examples include pr…
Self-reinforcing cascades: A spreading model for beliefs or products of varying intensity or quality
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Juniper Lovato, Giulio Burgio +3
Models of how things spread often assume that transmission mechanisms are fixed over time. However, social contagions--the spread of ideas, beliefs, innovations--can lose or gain i…
Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Nicholas W. Landry, Juniper Lovato +6
Democratic governments comprise a subset of a population whose goal is to produce coherent decisions, solving societal challenges while respecting the will of the people. New gover…