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most citedAddressing Polarization and Unfairness in Performative Prediction

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cs.CL2026

TLRD: Teaching LLMs to Reason over Tabular Data with Tri-Level Rationale Distillation

Tianyuan Liang, Xuwei Tan, Lei Shi +6

Tabular data is a primary medium for storing real-world information, driving many industrial applications of machine learning. Traditional predictors achieve strong predictive perf…

cs.LG2026

CAAL: Contextual Bandits based Online Hand-Craft Active Learning Strategy Selection

Shao-An Yin, Jiacong Li, Tianpei Xie +3

The challenge with active learning algorithms is the uncertainty of the statistical distribution of unlabeled data, making it difficult to choose the best hand-crafted strategy. To…

cs.CL2025

BiasCause: Evaluate Socially Biased Causal Reasoning of Large Language Models

Tian Xie, Tongxin Yin, Vaishakh Keshava +2

While large language models (LLMs) play increasingly significant roles in society, research shows they continue to generate content that reflects social bias against sensitive grou…

cs.LG2025

How Strategic Agents Respond: Comparing Analytical Models with LLM-Generated Responses in Strategic Classification

Tian Xie, Pavan Rauch, Xueru Zhang

When ML algorithms are deployed to automate human-related decisions, human agents may learn the underlying decision policies and adapt their behavior. Strategic Classification (SC)…

cs.LG2024

Lookahead Counterfactual Fairness

Zhiqun Zuo, Tian Xie, Xuwei Tan +2

As machine learning (ML) algorithms are used in applications that involve humans, concerns have arisen that these algorithms may be biased against certain social groups. \textit{Co…

cs.CL2024

Evaluating and Mitigating Social Bias for Large Language Models in Open-ended Settings

Zhao Liu, Tian Xie, Xueru Zhang

Current social bias benchmarks for Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily rely on predefined question formats like multiple-choice, limiting their ability to reflect the complexity…

cs.LG2024

ProFL: Performative Robust Optimal Federated Learning

Xue Zheng, Tian Xie, Xuwei Tan +2

Performative prediction is a framework that captures distribution shifts that occur during the training of machine learning models due to their deployment. As the trained model is…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Addressing Polarization and Unfairness in Performative Prediction

Kun Jin, Tian Xie, Yang Liu +1

In many real-world applications of machine learning such as recommendations, hiring, and lending, deployed models influence the data they are trained on, leading to feedback loops…

cs.LG2024

Automating Data Annotation under Strategic Human Agents: Risks and Potential Solutions

Tian Xie, Xueru Zhang

As machine learning (ML) models are increasingly used in social domains to make consequential decisions about humans, they often have the power to reshape data distributions. Human…

cs.AI2024

Non-linear Welfare-Aware Strategic Learning

Tian Xie, Xueru Zhang

This paper studies algorithmic decision-making in the presence of strategic individual behaviors, where an ML model is used to make decisions about human agents and the latter can…

cs.GT2024

Algorithmic Decision-Making under Agents with Persistent Improvement

Tian Xie, Xuwei Tan, Xueru Zhang

This paper studies algorithmic decision-making under human's strategic behavior, where a decision maker uses an algorithm to make decisions about human agents, and the latter with…

cs.AI2024

Learning under Imitative Strategic Behavior with Unforeseeable Outcomes

Tian Xie, Zhiqun Zuo, Mohammad Mahdi Khalili +1

Machine learning systems have been widely used to make decisions about individuals who may behave strategically to receive favorable outcomes, e.g., they may genuinely improve the…