3 papers
cs.CY2026
Budgeting Discretion: Theory and Evidence on Street-Level Decision-Making
Gaurab Pokharel, Sanmay Das, Patrick J. Fowler
Street-level bureaucrats, such as caseworkers and border guards routinely face the dilemma of whether to follow rigid policy or exercise discretion based on professional judgement.…
cs.CY2025
Street-Level AI: Are Large Language Models Ready for Real-World Judgments?
Gaurab Pokharel, Shafkat Farabi, Patrick J. Fowler +1
A surge of recent work explores the ethical and societal implications of large-scale AI models that make "moral" judgments. Much of this literature focuses either on alignment with…
cs.AI2024
Increasing the Value of Information During Planning in Uncertain Environments
Gaurab Pokharel
Prior studies have demonstrated that for many real-world problems, POMDPs can be solved through online algorithms both quickly and with near optimality. However, on an important se…