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20162023
most citedMe, My Echo Chamber, and I: Introspection on Social Media Polarization

115 citations · 212 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.IR2023

Counterfactual Evaluation of Peer-Review Assignment Policies

Martin Saveski, Steven Jecmen, Nihar B. Shah +1

Peer review assignment algorithms aim to match research papers to suitable expert reviewers, working to maximize the quality of the resulting reviews. A key challenge in designing…

stat.ME2023★ 2 cited

Off-policy evaluation beyond overlap: partial identification through smoothness

Samir Khan, Martin Saveski, Johan Ugander

Off-policy evaluation (OPE) is the problem of estimating the value of a target policy using historical data collected under a different logging policy. OPE methods typically assume…

cs.SI2021★ 1 cited

Engaging Politically Diverse Audiences on Social Media

Martin Saveski, Doug Beeferman, David McClure +1

We study how political polarization is reflected in the social media posts used by media outlets to promote their content online. In particular, we track the Twitter posts of sever…

cs.SI2021

Perspective-taking to Reduce Affective Polarization on Social Media

Martin Saveski, Nabeel Gillani, Ann Yuan +2

The intensification of affective polarization worldwide has raised new questions about how social media platforms might be further fracturing an already-divided public sphere. As o…

cs.SI2021★ 6 cited

Social Catalysts: Characterizing People Who Spark Conversations Among Others

Martin Saveski, Farshad Kooti, Sylvia Morelli Vitousek +3

People assume different and important roles within social networks. Some roles have received extensive study: that of influencers who are well-connected, and that of brokers who br…

cs.SI2021★ 86 cited

The Structure of Toxic Conversations on Twitter

Martin Saveski, Brandon Roy, Deb Roy

Social media platforms promise to enable rich and vibrant conversations online; however, their potential is often hindered by antisocial behaviors. In this paper, we study the rela…

cs.CY2018★ 115 cited

Me, My Echo Chamber, and I: Introspection on Social Media Polarization

Nabeel Gillani, Ann Yuan, Martin Saveski +2

Homophily -- our tendency to surround ourselves with others who share our perspectives and opinions about the world -- is both a part of human nature and an organizing principle un…

stat.ME2017

Testing for arbitrary interference on experimentation platforms

Jean Pouget-Abadie, Martin Saveski, Guillaume Saint-Jacques +4

Experimentation platforms are essential to modern large technology companies, as they are used to carry out many randomized experiments daily. The classic assumption of no interfer…

cs.SI2016★ 2 cited

Human Atlas: A Tool for Mapping Social Networks

Martin Saveski, Eric Chu, Soroush Vosoughi +1

Most social network analyses focus on online social networks. While these networks encode important aspects of our lives they fail to capture many real-world connections. Most of t…