4 papers
Finding Common Ground: Graded Communal Knowledge in Bluesky Starter Packs
Sagar Kumar, Lawrence Swaminathan Xavier Prince, Julia Mendelsohn +2
Communication is made possible by common ground---the unspoken knowledge that people share and presuppose of one another, whether that be online or offline. In his conception of co…
When Life Gives You AI, Will You Turn It Into A Market for Lemons? Understanding How Information Asymmetries About AI System Capabilities Affect Market Outcomes and Adoption
Alexander Erlei, Federico Cau, Radoslav Georgiev +3
AI consumer markets are characterized by severe buyer-supplier market asymmetries. Complex AI systems can appear highly accurate while making costly errors or embedding hidden defe…
A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset
Alyssa Smith, Ilya Amburg, Sagar Kumar +2
Large-scale networks have been instrumental in shaping how we think about social systems, and have undergirded many foundational results in mathematical epidemiology, computational…
Multi-strain spreading dynamics under arbitrary transmission kernels
Sagar Kumar, Moritz Laber, Maimuna S. Majumder +2
Compartmental models of epidemic dynamics have long described the propagation of a single, immutable transmissible state through a population via pairwise contact, and multi-strain…