6 papers
From Punishment to Protection: Charting Six Decades of U.S. Juvenile Justice Through Topic Modeling and LLM-Assisted Analysis
Nia E. George, Simeon Sayer
Juvenile courts handle two very different kinds of cases: young people accused of crimes, and children at risk in their own families, and both streams have been changing dramatical…
Hidden Signals in Language: Inferring Sensitive Attributes from Reddit Comments Using Machine Learning
Anay Agarwalla, Simeon Sayer
Sensitive attributes are legally protected characteristics that should not be used to discriminate. Careful steps have been taken to minimize the risk of human bias regarding these…
Artificially Fluent: Swahili AI Performance Benchmarks Between English-Trained and Natively-Trained Datasets
Sophie Jaffer, Simeon Sayer
As large language models (LLMs) expand multilingual capabilities, questions remain about the equity of their performance across languages. While many communities stand to benefit f…
News Sentiment as a Predictor for American Domestic Migration
Benjamin Lane, Simeon Sayer
This paper goes into depth on the effect that US News Sentiment from national newspapers has on US interstate migration trends. Through harnessing data from the New York Times betw…
Exploring Equality: An Investigation into Custom Loss Functions for Fairness Definitions
Gordon Lee, Simeon Sayer
This paper explores the complex tradeoffs between various fairness metrics such as equalized odds, disparate impact, and equal opportunity and predictive accuracy within COMPAS by…
Optimizing Violence Detection in Video Classification Accuracy through 3D Convolutional Neural Networks
Aarjav Kavathia, Simeon Sayer
As violent crimes continue to happen, it becomes necessary to have security cameras that can rapidly identify moments of violence with excellent accuracy. The purpose of this study…