Research
Publications
SPIN: Sparsifying and Integrating Internal Neurons in Large Language Models for Text Classification
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
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},
}
People Perceive Algorithmic Assessments as Less Fair and Trustworthy Than Identical Human Assessments
BibTeX
@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
BibTeX
@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
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
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
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
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
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
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
BibTeX
@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
BibTeX
@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
BibTeX
@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
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
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
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
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}
}
Learning Personalized Models of Human Behavior in Chess
BibTeX
@article{mcilroy2020learning,
title={Learning Personalized Models of Human Behavior in Chess},
author={McIlroy-Young, Reid and Wang, Russell and Sen, Siddhartha and Kleinberg, Jon and Anderson, Ashton},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10086},
year={2020}
}
The Complementary Nature of Perceived and Actual Time Spent Online in Measuring Digital Well-Being
BibTeX
@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
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
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
BibTeX
@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
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
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
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
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
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}
}