4 papers
Accounting for AI and Users Shaping One Another: The Role of Mathematical Models
Sarah Dean, Evan Dong, Meena Jagadeesan +1
As AI systems enter into a growing number of societal domains, these systems increasingly shape and are shaped by user preferences, opinions, and behaviors. However, the design of…
Can Probabilistic Feedback Drive User Impacts in Online Platforms?
Jessica Dai, Bailey Flanigan, Nika Haghtalab +2
A common explanation for negative user impacts of content recommender systems is misalignment between the platform's objective and user welfare. In this work, we show that misalign…
Clickbait vs. Quality: How Engagement-Based Optimization Shapes the Content Landscape in Online Platforms
Nicole Immorlica, Meena Jagadeesan, Brendan Lucier
Online content platforms commonly use engagement-based optimization when making recommendations. This encourages content creators to invest in quality, but also rewards gaming tric…
The Exchange Graphs of Weakly Separated Collections
Meena Jagadeesan
Weakly separated collections arise in the cluster algebra derived from the Plücker coordinates on the nonnegative Grassmannian. Oh, Postnikov, and Speyer studied weakly separated c…