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Measuring Recommender System Effects with Simulated Users
Sirui Yao, Yoni Halpern, Nithum Thain +6
Imagine a food recommender system -- how would we check if it is \emph{causing} and fostering unhealthy eating habits or merely reflecting users' interests? How much of a user's ex…
BriarPatches: Pixel-Space Interventions for Inducing Demographic Parity
Alexey A. Gritsenko, Alex D'Amour, James Atwood +2
We introduce the BriarPatch, a pixel-space intervention that obscures sensitive attributes from representations encoded in pre-trained classifiers. The patches encourage internal m…
A Practical Algorithm for Topic Modeling with Provable Guarantees
Sanjeev Arora, Rong Ge, Yoni Halpern +5
Topic models provide a useful method for dimensionality reduction and exploratory data analysis in large text corpora. Most approaches to topic model inference have been based on a…