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20222026
most citedPeer Reviews of Peer Reviews: A Randomized Controlled Trial and Other Experiments

7 citations · 16 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Boundary-targeted Membership Inference Attacks on Safety Classifiers

Anthony Hughes, Alexander Goldberg, Prince Jha +3

Safety classifiers are essential safeguards within generative AI systems, filtering harmful content or identifying at-risk users when interacting with large language models. Despit…

cs.LG2026

Smooth Partial Lotteries for Stable Randomized Selection

Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar B. Shah

Competitive selection processes, from scientific funding to admissions and hiring, use evaluations to score candidates, and eventually choose a subset of them based on those scores…

cs.CR2025

Benchmarking Fraud Detectors on Private Graph Data

Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar Shah +1

We introduce the novel problem of benchmarking fraud detectors on private graph-structured data. Currently, many types of fraud are managed in part by automated detection algorithm…

cs.GT2025

A Principled Approach to Randomized Selection under Uncertainty: Applications to Peer Review and Grant Funding

Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar B. Shah

Many decision-making processes involve evaluating and then selecting items; examples include scientific peer review, job hiring, school admissions, and investment decisions. The ev…

cs.CY2025

Do AI assistants help students write formal specifications? A study with ChatGPT and the B-Method

Alfredo Capozucca, Daniil Yampolskyi, Alexander Goldberg +1

This paper investigates the role of AI assistants, specifically OpenAI's ChatGPT, in teaching formal methods (FM) to undergraduate students, using the B-method as a formal specific…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Usefulness of LLMs as an Author Checklist Assistant for Scientific Papers: NeurIPS'24 Experiment

Alexander Goldberg, Ihsan Ullah, Thanh Gia Hieu Khuong +4

Large language models (LLMs) represent a promising, but controversial, tool in aiding scientific peer review. This study evaluates the usefulness of LLMs in a conference setting as…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

What Can Natural Language Processing Do for Peer Review?

Ilia Kuznetsov, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Koen Dercksen +21

The number of scientific articles produced every year is growing rapidly. Providing quality control over them is crucial for scientists and, ultimately, for the public good. In mod…

cs.CR2024

Benchmarking Private Population Data Release Mechanisms: Synthetic Data vs. TopDown

Aadyaa Maddi, Swadhin Routray, Alexander Goldberg +1

Differential privacy (DP) is increasingly used to protect the release of hierarchical, tabular population data, such as census data. A common approach for implementing DP in this s…

cs.DL2023★ 7 cited

Peer Reviews of Peer Reviews: A Randomized Controlled Trial and Other Experiments

Alexander Goldberg, Ivan Stelmakh, Kyunghyun Cho +4

Is it possible to reliably evaluate the quality of peer reviews? We study this question driven by two primary motivations -- incentivizing high-quality reviewing using assessed qua…

cs.CR2022

Batching of Tasks by Users of Pseudonymous Forums: Anonymity Compromise and Protection

Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar B. Shah

There are a number of forums where people participate under pseudonyms. One example is peer review, where the identity of reviewers for any paper is confidential. When participatin…