5 papers
Auctioning Attention on Social Networks
Andy Lee, Hari Sundaram
Social media recommendation systems create conflict: content producers, content consumers, platform operators, and social pressures struggle to direct the allocation of attention i…
From Plausible to Causal: Counterfactual Semantics for Policy Evaluation in Simulated Online Communities
Agam Goyal, Yian Wang, Eshwar Chandrasekharan +1
LLM-based social simulations can generate believable community interactions, enabling ``policy wind tunnels'' where governance interventions are tested before deployment. But belie…
Do You Trust the Process?: Modeling Institutional Trust for Community Adoption of Reinforcement Learning Policies
Naina Balepur, Xingrui Pei, Hari Sundaram
Many governmental bodies are adopting AI policies for decision-making. In particular, Reinforcement Learning has been used to design policies that citizens would be expected to fol…
Oh the Prices You'll See: Designing a Fair Exchange System to Mitigate Personalized Pricing
Aditya Karan, Naina Balepur, Hari Sundaram
Many online marketplaces personalize prices based on consumer attributes. Since these prices are private, consumers may be unaware that they have spent more on a good than the lowe…
Friends with Costs and Benefits: Community Formation with Myopic, Boundedly-Rational Actors
Naina Balepur, Andy Lee, Hari Sundaram
In this paper we address how complex social communities emerge from local decisions by individuals with limited attention and knowledge. This problem is critical; if we understand…