2 papers
cs.SI2026
The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement
Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +42
We report the first direct comparisons of multiple alternative social media algorithms on multiple platforms on outcomes of societal interest. We used a browser extension to modify…
cs.LG2024
IRL for Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Applications in Maternal and Child Health
Gauri Jain, Pradeep Varakantham, Haifeng Xu +3
Public health practitioners often have the goal of monitoring patients and maximizing patients' time spent in "favorable" or healthy states while being constrained to using limited…