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Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Lawma: The Power of Specialization for Legal Tasks Dominguez-Olmedo, R., Nanda, V., Abebe, R., Bechtold, S., Engel, C., Frankenreiter, J., Gummadi, K., Hardt, M., Livermore, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), January 2025, Accepted (Accepted) ArXiv Code BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Limits to Scalable Evaluation at the Frontier: LLM as Judge Won’t Beat Twice the Data Dorner, F. E., Nastl, V. Y., Hardt, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025 Oral), January 2025, Accepted (Accepted) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Miscellaneous Policy Design in Long-run Welfare Dynamics Wu, J., Abebe, R., Hardt, M., Stoica, A. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), January 2025, Accepted (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Miscellaneous Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence Dominguez-Olmedo, R., Dorner, F. E., Hardt, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025 Oral), January 2025, Accepted (Accepted) ArXiv BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Algorithmic Collective Action in Recommender Systems: Promoting Songs by Reordering Playlists Baumann, J., Mendler-Dünner, C. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024) , The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper An Engine Not a Camera: Measuring Performative Power of Online Search Mendler-Dünner, C., Carovano, G., Hardt, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Do Causal Predictors Generalize Better to New Domains? Nastl, V. Y., Hardt, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Spotlight Poster, December 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Evaluating Language Models as Risk Scores Cruz, A. F., Hardt, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024 (Published) ArXiv Code URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Questioning the Survey Responses of Large Language Models Dominguez-Olmedo, R., Hardt, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Oral, December 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper The Fairness-Quality Trade-off in Clustering Hakim, R., Stoica, A., Papadimitriou, C. H., Yannakakis, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Decline Now: A Combinatorial Model for Algorithmic Collective Action Sigg, D., Hardt, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, October 2024, Accepted (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Fairness in Social Influence Maximization via Optimal Transport Chowdhary, S., De Pasquale, G., Lanzetti, N., Stoica, A., Dorfler, F. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), September 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Allocation Requires Prediction Only if Inequality Is Low Shirali, A., Abebe, R., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024, *equal contribution (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Causal Inference from Competing Treatments Stoica, A., Nastl, V. Y., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Don’t Label Twice: Quantity Beats Quality when Comparing Binary Classifiers on a Budget Dorner, F. E., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Inherent Trade-Offs between Diversity and Stability in Multi-Task Benchmarks Zhang, G., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024 (Published) ArXiv Code URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Fairness Rising from the Ranks: HITS and PageRank on Homophilic Networks Stoica, A., Litvak, N., Chaintreau, A. In Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Web Conference 2024, ACM, The 2024 ACM Web Conference, May 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Test-Time Training on Nearest Neighbors for Large Language Models Hardt, M., Sun, Y. In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), May 2024 (Published) ArXiv Code URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Unprocessing Seven Years of Algorithmic Fairness Cruz, A. F., Hardt, M. In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), May 2024 (Published) ArXiv Code URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Article Integration of Generative AI in the Digital Markets Act: Contestability and Fairness from a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective Yasar, A. G., Chong, A., Dong, E., Gilbert, T., Hladikova, S., Mougan, C., Shen, X., Singh, S., Stoica, A., Thais, S. Workshop on Generative AI + Law (GenLaw) , LSE Legal Studies Working Paper, The Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023 , March 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Causal Inference out of Control: Estimating Performativity without Treatment Randomization Cheng, G., Hardt, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), January 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Collaborative Learning via Prediction Consensus Fan, D., Mendler-Dünner, C., Jaggi, M. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), Curran Associates, Inc., The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2023 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Poster Do Personality Tests Generalize to Large Language Models Dorner, F. E., Sühr, T., Samadi, S., Kelava, A. Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) Workshop, The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2023, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Book Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities Barocas, S., Hardt, M., Narayanan, A. MIT Press, December 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Is Your Model Predicting the Past? Hardt, M., Kim, M. P. In Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), ACM, October 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Incentivizing Honesty among Competitors in Collaborative Learning and Optimization Dorner, F. E., Konstantinov, N., Pashaliev, G., Vechev, M. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), September 2023 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper AI and the EU Digital Markets Act: Addressing the Risks of Bigness in Generative AI Yasar, A. G., Chong, A., Dong, E., Gilbert, T. K., Hladikova, S., Maio, R., Mougan, C., Shen, X., Singh, S., Stoica, A., et al. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR, The Forty International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2023, Accepted (Accepted) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning Hardt, M., Mazumdar, E., Mendler-Dünner, C., Zrnic, T. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR, The Forty International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper A Theory of Dynamic Benchmarks Shirali, A., Abebe, R., Hardt, M. In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023) , May 2023 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper What Makes ImageNet Look Unlike LAION Shirali, A., Hardt, M. The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), February 2023, Submitted (Submitted) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Article Difficult Lessons on Social Prediction from Wisconsin Public Schools Perdomo, J. C., Britton, T., Hardt, M., Abebe, R. Computing Research Repository (CoRR) , January 2023 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Human Aspects of Machine Learning Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Do personality tests generalize to Large Language Models? Sühr, T., Dorner, F., Samadi, S., Kelava, A. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems., Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana., Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) Workshop at NeurIPS, 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Human-Guided Fair Classification for Natural Language Processing Dorner, F. E., Peychev, M., Konstantinov, N., Goel, N., Ash, E., Vechev, M. In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023), February 2023 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Anticipating Performativity by Predicting from Predictions Mendler-Dünner, C., Ding, F., Wang, Y. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022), Curran Associates, Inc., The Thirty-Six Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), November 2022 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Book Patterns, Predictions, and Actions: Foundations of Machine Learning Hardt, M., Recht, B. Princeton University Press, August 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Regret Minimization with Performative Feedback Jagadeesan, M., Zrnic, T., Mendler-Dünner, C. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022), PMLR, The Thirty-Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2022 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Adversarial Scrutiny of Evidentiary Statistical Software Abebe, R., Hardt, M., Jin, A., Miller, J., Schmidt, L., Wexler, R. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), ACM, June 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Performative Power Hardt, M., Jagadeesan, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022), Curran Associates Inc., The Thirty-Six Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Article Algorithmic Amplification of Politics on Twitter Huszár, F., Ktena, S. I., O’Brien, C., Belli, L., Schlaikjer, A., Hardt, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), National Academy of Sciences, January 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Causal Inference Struggles with Agency on Online Platforms Milli, S., Belli, L., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), ACM, June 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX