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most citedWhat is Beautiful is Still Good: The Attractiveness Halo Effect in the era of Beauty Filters

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cs.AI2026

Why do we Trust Chatbots? From Normative Principles to Behavioral Drivers

Aditya Gulati, Nuria Oliver

As chatbots increasingly blur the boundary between automated systems and human conversation, the foundations of trust in these systems warrant closer examination. While regulatory…

cs.CV2026

Aesthetics as Structural Harm: Algorithmic Lookism Across Text-to-Image Generation and Classification

Miriam Doh, Aditya Gulati, Corinna Canali +1

This paper examines algorithmic lookism-the systematic preferential treatment based on physical appearance-in text-to-image (T2I) generative AI and a downstream gender classificati…

cs.HC2026

Mind the Style: Impact of Communication Style on Human-Chatbot Interaction

Erik Derner, Dalibor Kučera, Aditya Gulati +3

Conversational agents increasingly mediate everyday digital interactions, yet the effects of their communication style on user experience and task success remain insufficiently und…

cs.CY2026

Happy Young Women, Grumpy Old Men? Emotion-Driven Demographic Biases in Synthetic Face Generation

Mengting Wei, Aditya Gulati, Guoying Zhao +1

Synthetic faces from text-to-image (T2I) models pervade digital media, yet their demographic biases under emotionally conditioned prompts remain poorly understood. We aim to system…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

When Algorithms Play Favorites: Lookism in the Generation and Perception of Faces

Miriam Doh, Aditya Gulati, Matei Mancas +1

This paper examines how synthetically generated faces and machine learning-based gender classification algorithms are affected by algorithmic lookism, the preferential treatment ba…

cs.CY2025

Beauty and the Bias: Exploring the Impact of Attractiveness on Multimodal Large Language Models

Aditya Gulati, Moreno D'Incà, Nicu Sebe +2

Physical attractiveness matters. It has been shown to influence human perception and decision-making, often leading to biased judgments that favor those deemed attractive in what i…

cs.LG2024

Normalized Space Alignment: A Versatile Metric for Representation Analysis

Danish Ebadulla, Aditya Gulati, Ambuj Singh

We introduce a manifold analysis technique for neural network representations. Normalized Space Alignment (NSA) compares pairwise distances between two point clouds derived from th…

cs.CL2024

Self-rationalization improves LLM as a fine-grained judge

Prapti Trivedi, Aditya Gulati, Oliver Molenschot +7

LLM-as-a-judge models have been used for evaluating both human and AI generated content, specifically by providing scores and rationales. Rationales, in addition to increasing tran…

cs.CV2024

Lookism: The overlooked bias in computer vision

Aditya Gulati, Bruno Lepri, Nuria Oliver

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in computer vision which have led to the widespread deployment of image recognition and generation systems in socially rel…

cs.HC2024★ 18 cited

What is Beautiful is Still Good: The Attractiveness Halo Effect in the era of Beauty Filters

Aditya Gulati, Marina Martinez-Garcia, Daniel Fernandez +3

The impact of cognitive biases on decision-making in the digital world remains under-explored despite its well-documented effects in physical contexts. This study addresses this ga…

cs.CV2024

Human Shape and Clothing Estimation

Aayush Gupta, Aditya Gulati, Himanshu +1

Human shape and clothing estimation has gained significant prominence in various domains, including online shopping, fashion retail, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), a…