3 papers
cs.LG2026
The Role of Causality in Algorithmic Recourse
Srikanth Avasarala, Varun Gupta, Shahin Jabbari +2
Algorithmic recourse aims to provide individuals with actionable changes to improve their predicted outcomes in high-stakes classification settings, such as loan and mortgage appli…
cs.IT2026
Local Differential Privacy with Correlated Noise Achieves Central-DP Optimal Cost
Madhura Pathegama, Srikanth Avasarala, Viveck R. Cadambe +1
We study privately estimating the sum of user-held values in the presence of an honest-but-curious server. This motivates requiring privacy not only at data release but also th…
cs.GT2025
The Disparate Effects of Partial Information in Bayesian Strategic Learning
Srikanth Avasarala, Serena Wang, Juba Ziani
We study how partial information about scoring rules affects fairness in strategic learning settings. In strategic learning, a learner deploys a scoring rule, and agents respond st…