3 papers
cs.CY2026
The Effect of Perceived Race and Gender on Police Language Use: Experimental Evidence from VR Simulations
Sandra C. Sandoval, Navita Goyal, Rashawn Ray +3
Against the backdrop of violence in police interactions with the U.S. public, we explore how deferentially police officers speak to virtual characters depicted as Black adult males…
cs.LG2026
Steering Safely or Off a Cliff? Rethinking Specificity and Robustness in Inference-Time Interventions
Navita Goyal, Hal Daumé
Model steering, which involves intervening on hidden representations at inference time, has emerged as a lightweight alternative to finetuning for precisely controlling large langu…
cs.DL2024
Causal Effect of Group Diversity on Redundancy and Coverage in Peer-Reviewing
Navita Goyal, Ivan Stelmakh, Nihar Shah +1
A large host of scientific journals and conferences solicit peer reviews from multiple reviewers for the same submission, aiming to gather a broader range of perspectives and mitig…