6 papers
Strategic Classification Has a Missing Lever: Audit Risk
Raman Ebrahimi, Massimo Franceschetti
Strategic classification studies how a decision maker should choose a classifier when the agents being classified can adjust their features in response to it. In existing models, t…
Visibility Design and Strategic Reasoning
Raman Ebrahimi, Sepehr Ilami, Babak Heydari +2
Dashboards, feeds, and leaderboards determine whom agents believe they are playing against. We study how such information architectures shape strategic behavior, and how a designer…
Strategic Opinion Manipulation in Multiplex Networks
Raman Ebrahimi, Massimo Franceschetti
Models of opinion dynamics on networks, provide a framework to study how a network of agents aggregates dispersed opinions into a consensus. However, existing models assume that ag…
The Architecture of Illusion: Network Opacity and Strategic Escalation
Raman Ebrahimi, Sepehr Ilami, Babak Heydari +2
Standard models of bounded rationality typically assume agents either possess accurate knowledge of the population's reasoning abilities (Cognitive Hierarchy) or hold dogmatic, deg…
Textual understanding boost in the WikiRace
Raman Ebrahimi, Sean Fuhrman, Kendrick Nguyen +2
The WikiRace game, where players navigate between Wikipedia articles using only hyperlinks, serves as a compelling benchmark for goal-directed search in complex information network…
Layers of a City: Network-Based Insights into San Diego's Transportation Ecosystem
Matthew Chan, Steve Sharp, Jiajian Zhu +1
Analyzing the structure and function of urban transportation networks is critical for enhancing mobility, equity, and resilience. This paper leverages network science to conduct a…