Publications

Learning to Imitate with Less: Efficient Individual Behavior Modeling in Chess
Zhenwei Tang, Difan Jiao, Eric Xue, Reid McIlroy-Young, Jon Kleinberg, Siddhartha Sen, and Ashton Anderson. Under Review.
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SEAM: Semantically Equivalent Across Modalities Benchmark for Vision-Language Models
Zhenwei Tang, Difan Jiao, Blair Yang, and Ashton Anderson. COLM 2025.
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ChatBench: From Static Benchmarks to Human-AI Evaluation
Serina Chang, Jake M. Hofman, and Ashton Anderson. ACL.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{chang2025chatbench,
  title={ChatBench: From Static Benchmarks to Human-AI Evaluation},
  author={Chang, Serina and Hofman, Jake M. and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year={2025}
}
Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking
Harsh Kumar, Jonathan Vincentius, Ewan Jordan, and Ashton Anderson. CHI.
BibTeX
@article{kumar2025human,
  title={Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking},
  author={Kumar, Harsh and Vincentius, Jonathan and Jordan, Ewan and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={CHI},
  year={2025}
}
To Rely or Not to Rely? Evaluating Interventions for Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models
Jessica Y. Bo, Sophia Wan, and Ashton Anderson. CHI.
BibTeX
@article{bo2025rely,
  title={To Rely or Not to Rely? Evaluating Interventions for Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models},
  author={Bo, Jessica Y. and Wan, Sophia and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={CHI},
  year={2025}
}
Maia-2: A Unified Model for Human-AI Alignment in Chess
Zhenwei Tang, Difan Jiao, Reid McIlroy-Young, Jon Kleinberg, Siddhartha Sen, and Ashton Anderson. NeurIPS.
BibTeX
@article{tang2024maia2,
  title={Maia-2: A Unified Model for Human-AI Alignment in Chess},
  author={Tang, Zhenwei and Jiao, Difan and McIlroy-Young, Reid and Kleinberg, Jon and Sen, Siddhartha and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2024}
}
Disclosures & Disclaimers: Investigating the Impact of Transparency Disclosures and Reliability Disclaimers on Learner-LLM Interactions
Jessica Y. Bo, Harsh Kumar, Michael Liut, and Ashton Anderson. HCOMP 2024.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{bo2024disclosures,
  title={Disclosures \& Disclaimers: Investigating the Impact of Transparency Disclosures and Reliability Disclaimers on Learner-LLM Interactions},
  author={Bo, Jessica Y and Kumar, Harsh and Liut, Michael and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing},
  volume={12},
  pages={23--32},
  year={2024}
}
SPIN: Sparsifying and Integrating Internal Neurons in Large Language Models for Text Classification
Difan Jiao, Yilun Liu, Zhenwei Tang, Daniel Matter, Jürgen Pfeffer, and Ashton Anderson. ACL Findings 2024.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{jiaospin,
  title={SPIN: Sparsifying and Integrating Internal Neurons in Large Language Models for Text Classification},
  author={ Jiao, Difan and Liu, Yilun and Tang, Zhenwei and Matter, Daniel and Pfeffer, Jürgen and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACL Findings},
  year={2024},
  }
Designing Skill-Compatible AI: Methodologies and Frameworks in Chess
Karim Hamade, Reid McIlroy-Young, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, and Ashton Anderson. ICLR 2024.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{hamadedesigning,
  title={Designing Skill-Compatible AI: Methodologies and Frameworks in Chess},
  author={Hamade, Karim and McIlroy-Young, Reid and Sen, Siddhartha and Kleinberg, Jon and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year={2024},
  }
ICL-Markup: Structuring In-Context Learning using Soft-Token Tags
Marc-Etienne Brunet, Ashton Anderson, and Rich Zemel. NeurIPS R0-FoMo Workshop 2023.
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People Perceive Algorithmic Assessments as Less Fair and Trustworthy Than Identical Human Assessments
Lillio Mok, Sasha Nanda, and Ashton Anderson. CSCW 2023.
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@article{mok2023people,
  title={People perceive algorithmic assessments as less fair and trustworthy than identical human assessments},
  author={Mok, Lillio and Nanda, Sasha and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
  volume={7},
  number={CSCW},
  pages={1--26},
  year={2023},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY, USA}
}
Echo Tunnels: Polarized News Sharing Online Runs Narrow but Deep
Lillio Mok, Michael Inzlicht, and Ashton Anderson. ICWSM 2023.
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@inproceedings{mok2023echotunnels,
  title={Echo Tunnels: Polarized News Sharing Online Runs Narrow but Deep},
  author={Mok, Lillio and Inzlicht, Michael and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the {I}nternational {AAAI} {C}onference on {W}eb and {S}ocial {M}edia},
  year={2023}
}
Reddit in the Time of COVID
Venia Veselovsky and Ashton Anderson. ICWSM 2023.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{veselovsky2023reddit,
  title={Reddit in the {T}ime of {COVID}},
  author={Veselovsky, Veniamin and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the {I}nternational {AAAI} {C}onference on {W}eb and {S}ocial {M}edia},
  year={2023}
}
Implications of Model Indeterminacy for Explanations of Automated Decisions
Marc-Etienne Brunet, Ashton Anderson, and Rich Zemel. NeurIPS 2022.
BibTeX
@article{brunet2022implications,
  title={Implications of Model Indeterminacy for Explanations of Automated Decisions},
  author={Brunet, Marc-Etienne and Anderson, Ashton and Zemel, Richard},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume={35},
  pages={7810--7823},
  year={2022}
}
Mimetic Models: Ethical Implications of AI that Acts Like You
Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, and Ashton Anderson. AIES 2022.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{mcilroy2022mimetic,
  title={Mimetic models: Ethical implications of ai that acts like you},
  author={McIlroy-Young, Reid and Kleinberg, Jon and Sen, Siddhartha and Barocas, Solon and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society},
  pages={479--490},
  year={2022}
}
Anticipated versus Actual Effects of Platform Design Change: A Case Study of Twitter's Character Limit
Kristina Gligoric, Justyna Czestochowska, Ashton Anderson, and Robert West. CSCW 2022.
BibTeX
@article{gligoric2022anticipated,
  title={Anticipated versus Actual Effects of Platform Design Change: A Case Study of Twitter's Character Limit},
  author={Gligoric, Kristina and Czestochowska, Justyna and Anderson, Ashton and West, Robert},
  journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
  volume={6},
  number={CSCW2},
  pages={1--29},
  year={2022},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY, USA}
}
Learning Models of Individual Behavior in Chess
Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, and Ashton Anderson. KDD 2022.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{mcilroy2022learning,
  title={Learning models of individual behavior in chess},
  author={McIlroy-Young, Reid and Wang, Russell and Sen, Siddhartha and Kleinberg, Jon and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
  pages={1253--1263},
  year={2022}
}
Quantifying the Creator Economy: A Large-Scale Analysis of Patreon
Lana El Sanyoura and Ashton Anderson. ICWSM 2022.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{el2022quantifying,
  title={Quantifying the {C}reator {E}conomy: {A} {L}arge-{S}cale {A}nalysis of {P}atreon},
  author={El Sanyoura, Lana and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the {I}nternational {AAAI} {C}onference on {W}eb and {S}ocial {M}edia},
  volume={16},
  pages={829--840},
  year={2022}
}
The Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify
Lillio Mok, Samuel F. Way, Lucas Maystre, and Ashton Anderson. ICWSM 2022.
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@inproceedings{mok2023spotifyexplore,
  title={The Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify},
  author={Mok, Lillio and Way, Samuel and Maystre, Lucas and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the {I}nternational {AAAI} {C}onference on {W}eb and {S}ocial {M}edia},
  year={2022}
}
Measuring Alignment of Online Grassroots Political Communities with Political Campaigns
Cameron Raymond, Isaac Waller, Ashton Anderson. ICWSM 2022.
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@inproceedings{raymond2022grassroots,
  title={Measuring Alignment of Online Grassroots Political Communities with Political Campaigns},
  author={Raymond, Cameron and Waller, Isaac and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the {I}nternational {AAAI} {C}onference on {W}eb and {S}ocial {M}edia},
  year={2022}
}
Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms
Isaac Waller and Ashton Anderson. Nature 2021.
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@article{waller2020community,
  title={Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms},
  author={Waller, Isaac and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={Nature},
  volume={600},
  number={7888},
  pages={264--268},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}
Detecting Individual Decision-Making Style: Exploring Behavioral Stylometry in Chess
Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson. NeurIPS 2021.
BibTeX
@article{mcilroy2021detecting,
  title={Detecting individual decision-making style: Exploring behavioral stylometry in chess},
  author={McIlroy-Young, Reid and Wang, Yu and Sen, Siddhartha and Kleinberg, Jon and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume={34},
  pages={24482--24497},
  year={2021}
}
Imagine All the People: Characterizing Social Music Sharing on Reddit
Venia Veselovsky, Isaac Waller, and Ashton Anderson. ICWSM 2021.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{veselovsky2021imagine,
  title={Imagine All the People: Characterizing Social Music Sharing on Reddit},
  author={Veselovsky, Veniamin and Waller, Isaac and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  volume={15},
  pages={739--750},
  year={2021}
}
Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments
Kristina Gligorić, George Lifchits, Robert West, Ashton Anderson. PLOS One, 2021.
BibTeX
@article{gligoric2021linguistic,
  title={Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report Protocol)},
  author={Gligori{\'c}, Kristina and Lifchits, George and West, Robert and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={Plos one},
  volume={16},
  number={9},
  pages={e0257091},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA}
}
Where To Next? A Dynamic Model of User Preferences
Francesco Sanna Passino, Lucas Maystre, Dmitrii Moor, Ashton Anderson, Mounia Lalmas. WWW 2021.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{passino2021next,
  title={Where To Next? A Dynamic Model of User Preferences},
  author={Passino, Francesco Sanna and Maystre, Lucas and Moor, Dmitrii and Anderson, Ashton and Lalmas, Mounia},
  booktitle={Proceedings of The Web Conference 2021},
  pages={19--23},
  year={2021}
}
The Complementary Nature of Perceived and Actual Time Spent Online in Measuring Digital Well-Being
Lillio Mok and Ashton Anderson. CSCW 2021.
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@article{mokcomplementary,
  title={The Complementary Nature of Perceived and Actual Time Spent Online in Measuring Digital Well-being},
  author={Mok, Lillio and Anderson, Ashton},
  journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
  number={CSCW},
  year={2021}
}
Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
Reid McIlroy-Young, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson. KDD 2020.
BibTeX
@article{mcilroyyoung2020maia,
  title={Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System},
  author={McIlroy-Young, Reid and  Sen, Siddhartha and Kleinberg, Jon and Anderson, Ashton},
  year={2020},
  eprint={2006.01855},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.AI}
}
Algorithmic Effects on the Diversity of Consumption on Spotify
Ashton Anderson, Lucas Maystre, Rishabh Mehrotra, Ian Anderson, Mounia Lalmas. WWW 2020.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{anderson2020algorithmic,
  title={Algorithmic effects on the diversity of consumption on spotify},
  author={Anderson, Ashton and Maystre, Lucas and Anderson, Ian and Mehrotra, Rishabh and Lalmas, Mounia},
  booktitle={Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020},
  pages={2155--2165},
  year={2020}
}
Generalists and Specialists: Using Community Embeddings to Quantify Activity Diversity in Online Platforms
Isaac Waller and Ashton Anderson. WWW 2019.
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@inproceedings{waller2019generalists,
  title={Generalists and specialists: Using community embeddings to quantify activity diversity in online platforms},
  author={Waller, Isaac and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={The World Wide Web Conference},
  pages={1954--1964},
  year={2019}
}
Understanding the Origins of Bias in Word Embeddings
Marc-Etienne Brunet, Colleen Alkalay-Houlihan, Ashton Anderson, Richard Zemel. ICML 2019.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{brunet2019understanding,
  title={Understanding the origins of bias in word embeddings},
  author={Brunet, Marc-Etienne and Alkalay-Houlihan, Colleen and Anderson, Ashton and Zemel, Richard},
  booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages={803--811},
  year={2019}
}
Causal Effects of Brevity on Style and Success in Social Media
Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, Robert West. CSCW 2019.
BibTeX
@article{gligoric2019causal,
  title={Causal effects of brevity on style and success in social media},
  author={Gligori{\'c}, Kristina and Anderson, Ashton and West, Robert},
  journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
  volume={3},
  number={CSCW},
  pages={1--23},
  year={2019},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY, USA}
}
From “Welcome New Gabbers” to the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: The Evolution of Gab
Reid McIlroy-Young and Ashton Anderson. ICWSM 2019 (poster paper).
BibTeX
@inproceedings{mcilroy2019welcome,
  title={From “Welcome New Gabbers” to the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: The Evolution of Gab},
  author={McIlroy-Young, Reid and Anderson, Ashton},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  volume={13},
  pages={651--654},
  year={2019}
}
How Constraints Affect Content: The Case of Twitter's Switch from 140 to 280 Characters
Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, Robert West. ICWSM 2018.
BibTeX
@article{gligoric2018constraints,
  title={How constraints affect content: The case of Twitter's switch from 140 to 280 characters},
  author={Gligori{\'c}, Kristina and Anderson, Ashton and West, Robert},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02318},
  year={2018}
}
Personal bests as reference points
Ashton Anderson and Etan Green. PNAS, 2018.
BibTeX
@article{anderson2018personal,
  title={Personal bests as reference points},
  author={Anderson, Ashton and Green, Etan A},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  volume={115},
  number={8},
  pages={1772--1776},
  year={2018},
  publisher={National Acad Sciences}
}