6 papers
The Tilted Playing Field for Women in Science
Casandra Rusti, Hussain Hussain, Kian Ahrabian +4
Institutional prestige shapes access to resources, visibility, and collaboration opportunities in science. Yet whether prestige benefits researchers equally, and how it relates to…
Affective Polarization on Small-World and Scale-Free Networks
Alisson SerracÃn Morales, Buddhika Nettasinghe
Affective polarization, the emotional divide characterized by in-group love (trust towards fellow partisans) and out-group hate (mistrust towards those with opposite political view…
As Language Models Scale, Low-order Linear Depth Dynamics Emerge
Buddhika Nettasinghe, Geethu Joseph
Large language models are often viewed as high-dimensional nonlinear systems and treated as black boxes. Here, we show that transformer depth dynamics admit accurate low-order line…
Dynamics of Human-AI Collective Knowledge on the Web: A Scalable Model and Insights for Sustainable Growth
Buddhika Nettasinghe, Kang Zhao
Humans and large language models (LLMs) now co-produce and co-consume the web's shared knowledge archives. Such human-AI collective knowledge ecosystems contain feedback loops with…
Emergence of Structural Disparities in the Web of Scientific Citations
Buddhika Nettasinghe, Nazanin Alipourfard, Vikram Krishnamurthy +1
Scientific attention is unevenly distributed, creating inequities in recognition and distorting access to opportunities. Using citations as a proxy, we quantify disparities in atte…
In-Group Love, Out-Group Hate: A Framework to Measure Affective Polarization via Contentious Online Discussions
Buddhika Nettasinghe, Ashwin Rao, Bohan Jiang +2
Affective polarization, the emotional divide between ideological groups marked by in-group love and out-group hate, has intensified in the United States, driving contentious issues…