Home Page for Professor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania (original) (raw)
My research interests include topics in machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithmic game theory and microeconomics, computational social science, and quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. I often examine problems in these areas using methods and models from theoretical computer science and related disciplines. While much of my work is mathematical in nature, I also often participate in empirical and experimental projects, including applications of machine learning to problems in algorithmic trading and quantitative finance, and human-subject experiments on strategic and economic interaction in social networks.
For (in)convenience, most of this site is organized as a single flat html file. The links below let you navigate directly to the various subsections.
Aaron Rothand I have written ageneral-audience bookabout the science of designing algorithms that embed social values like privacy and fairness; here is the publisher's description:
Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistical models for everything from mortgages to college admissions reflect racial and gender bias. Meanwhile, users manipulate algorithms to "game" search engines, spam filters, online reviewing services, and navigation apps.
Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional fixes, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, The Ethical Algorithm offers a new approach: a set of principled solutions based on the emerging and exciting science of socially aware algorithm design. Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explain how we can better embed human principles into machine code - without halting the advance of data-driven scientific exploration. Weaving together innovative research with stories of citizens, scientists, and activists on the front lines, The Ethical Algorithm offers a compelling vision for a future, one in which we can better protect humans from the unintended impacts of algorithms while continuing to inspire wondrous advances in technology.
"Algorithmic Trading: The Machine Learning Approach",(Quantcon 2015, technical)
BRIEF PROFESSIONAL BIO
Current:
Since 2002 I have been a professor in theComputer and Information Science Departmentat theUniversity of Pennsylvania,where I hold the National Center Chair. I have secondary appointments in the department of Economics,and in the departments of Statistics and Data Scienceand Operations, Information and Decisions (OID) in the Wharton School.I am the Founding Director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, where my Co-Director isRakesh Vohra.I am the faculty founder and former director of Penn Engineering's Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS) Program, whose current directors are Andreas HaeberlenandAaron Roth.I am a faculty affiliate in Penn'sApplied Math and Computational Sciencegraduate program. Until July 2006 I was the co-director of Penn's interdisciplinary Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
Since June 2020, I have been an Amazon Scholar,focusing on fairness, privacy and other "responsible AI" topics withinAmazon Web Services.
I have worked extensively in quantitative and algorithmic trading on Wall Street (including at Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, SAC Capital and Morgan Stanley; see further details below). I often serve as an advisor to technology companies and venture capital firms, and sometimes invest in early-stage technology startups. I occasionally serve as an expert witness or consultant on technology-related legal and regulatory cases.
I am an elected Member/Fellow of theNational Academy of Sciences,theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences,theAssociation for Computing Machinery,theAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,and theSociety for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
The Past:
I spent the decade 1991-2001 in machine learning and AI research atAT&T Bell Labs.(Here is an epic photoof Labs staff from 1995, there are many famous scientists peppered throughout.) During my last four years there, I was the head of the AI department, which conducted a broad range of systems and foundational AI work; I also served briefly as the head of the Secure Systems Research department.The AI department boasted terrific colleagues and friends that includedCharles Isbell (now at Georgia Tech),Diane Litman (now at University of Pittsburgh),Michael Littman (later at Rutgers, now at Brown),David McAllester (now at TTI-Chicago),Satinder Singh (now at University of Michigan),Peter Stone (now at University of Texas), andRich Sutton (now at University of Alberta). Prior to my time as its head, the AI department was shaped by the efforts of a number of notable figures, includingRon Brachman (who originally founded the department; now at Cornell Tech),Henry Kautz (who led the department before heading to the University of Washington; now at the University of Rochester), andBart Selman (now at Cornell). Before leading the AI group, I was a member of the closely related Machine Learning department at the labs, which was headed byFernando Pereira (later at Penn, now at Google), and includedMichael Collins (later at MIT and Columbia, now at Google),Sanjoy Dasgupta (now at UCSD),Yoav Freund (now at UCSD),Rob Schapire (later at Princeton, now at Microsoft Research),William Cohen (now at CMU), andYoram Singer (later at Hebrew University and Google, now at Princeton). Other friends and colleagues from Labs days includeSebastian Seung (later at MIT, now at Princeton),Lawrence Saul (later at Penn, now at UCSD),Yann LeCun (now at Facebook and NYU),Roberto Pieraccini (now at Jibo),Esther Levin (now at Point72),Lyn Walker (now at UC Santa Cruz),Corinna Cortes (now at Google), and Vladimir Vapnik (now at Facebook).
I spent 2001 as CTO of the European venture capital firm Syntek Capital, and joined the Penn faculty in January 2002.
From June 2018 to June 2020, I led applied research in theAI Center of ExcellenceatMorgan Stanley,along withYuriy Nevmyvaka(with whom I have also collaborated on a number of papers onalgorithmic trading).
From June 2016 to March of 2018, I was the Chief Scientist ofMANA Partners,a trading, technology and asset management firm based in NYC. From early 2014 to June 2016, I led a quantitative portfolio management team with Yuriy NevmyvakaatEngineers Gate.From June 2009 through September 2013, we were PMs in the MultiQuant division of SAC Capital in New York City. From May 2007 through April 2009, we led a quantitative trading team at Bank of America in New York City, working on both proprietary and algorithmic trading strategies within BofA's Electronic Trading Services division.From the Spring of 2002 through May 2007, I was first a consultant to, and later the head of, a quant prop trading team within the Equity Strategies group of Lehman Brothers in New York City.
I spent most of 2011 on sabbatical in Cambridge, England, where I visited theUniversity of Cambridge Economics Departmentand was a visiting Fellow atChrist's College.I also spent time visitingMicrosoft Research Cambridge.
I have served as an advisor to the startupsYodle (acquired by web.com),Wealthfront, Activate Networks, RootMetrics (acquired by IHS),Convertro (acquired by AOL),Invite Media(acquired by Google),SiteAdvisor(founded by Chris Dixon; acquired by McAfee), PayNearMe (formerly known as Kwedit), andRiverhead Networks(acquired by Cisco). I was also involved in Dixon's startupHunch (acquired by eBay), and have been a consultant toBessemer Venture Partners.
In the past I have served as a member of the Advanced Technology Advisory Council ofPJM Interconnection.the Scientific Advisory Board of Opera Solutions, and the Technical Advisory Board ofMicrosoft Research Cambridge.I am a former member of the Scientific Advisory Board of theAlan Turing Institute,and of the Market Surveillance Advisory Group ofFINRA,and a former external faculty member at theSanta Fe Institute.
EDUCATION
I did my undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley in math and computer science, graduating in 1985. I received a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University in 1989. The title of my dissertation was The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning (see Publications below for more information), and Les Valiant was my (superb) advisor. Following postdoctoral positions at the Laboratory for Computer Science at M.I.T. (hosted by Ron Rivest) and at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley (hosted by Dick Karp), in 1991 I joined the research staff of AT&T Bell Labs, and later the Penn faculty (see professional bio above).
Alongside my formal education, I was strongly influenced by being raised in an academic family, which included my father David R. Kearns(UCSD, Chemistry); his brother, and my uncleThomas R. Kearns(Amherst College, Philosophy); their father, and my paternal grandfather, Clyde W. Kearns (University of Illinois, Entomology); my motherAlice Chen Kearns,who was an early influence on my writing; and her father, and my maternal grandfather Chen Shou-Yi(Pomona College, Chinese History and Literature).
EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
In the past I have been program chair or co-chair of ACM FAccT, NIPS, AAAI, COLT, and ACM EC. I have also served on the program committees of NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, COLT, UAI, ICML, STOC, FOCS, and a variety of other acryonyms. I am a member of the NIPS Foundation, and was formerly on the steering committee for the Snowbird Conference on Learning (RIP).
I am currently on the editorial board of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
I am currently/recently on the editorial boards of the MIT Press series on Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning, and the journalsPNAS NexusandMarket Microstructure and Liquidity.
In the past I have served on the editorial boards of Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing, Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
I serve as a current member and former chair of theACM A.M. Turing Award Committee.
I am currently a member of the Emerging Technology Technical Advisory Committeeof the U.S. Department of Commerce.
I am a former member of theComputer Science and Telecommunications Boardof the National Academies. From 2002-2008 I was a member, vice chair and chair of DARPA's Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group.
I am the current chair of Section 34 (Computer and Information Sciences) of theNational Academy of Sciences,
RESEARCH GROUP
Current (alphabetical):
PostdocYahav Bechavod (hosted by Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentNatalie Collina (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentIra Globus-Harris (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentVarun Gupta (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Masters student Miranda Miao
Doctoral studentGeorgy Noarov (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentMirah Shi (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentSikata Sengupta (jointly advised with Aaron Roth and Duncan Watts )
Alumni (reverse chronological):
Former postdoc Jess Sorrell, now on the Johns Hopkins faculty
Former doctoral studentAlexander Tolbert, now on the Emory University faculty
Former Masters studentDeclan Harrison, now an officer in the U.S. Navy
Former doctoral studentEmily Diana, now on the research faculty at TTI Chicago, then joining CMU faculty
Former doctoral studentSaeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi, now on the research faculty at TTI Chicago
Former doctoral studentChris Jung, now a postdoc at Stanford
FormerWarren Center postdocTravis Dick, now at Google Research NYC
FormerWarren Center postdocJuba Ziani, now on the Georgia Tech faculty
Former doctoral studentHadi Elzayn , now a research scientist at Meta/Facebook
Former doctoral studentSeth Neel, now on the Harvard Business School faculty
Former doctoral student Shahin Jabbari, now on the Drexel faculty
Former Warren Center postdocJieming Mao, now at Google Research NYC
Former Warren Center postdocBo Waggoner, now on the University of Colorado faculty
Former Warren Center postdocJamie Morgenstern, now on the University of Washington faculty
Former doctoral student Steven Wu, now on the CMU faculty
Former doctoral studentHoda Heidari, now on the CMU faculty
Former doctoral student Ryan Rogers, now at LinkedIn
Former Warren Center postdocGrigory Yaroslavtsev, now on the George Mason University faculty
Former graduate student Lili Dworkin now at Recidiviz
Former doctoral student Kareem Amin, now at Google Research NYC
Former research scientist Stephen Judd
Former doctoral studentMickey Brautbar, now at Shipt
Former postdocJake Abernethy, now on the Georgia Tech faculty
Former postdoc Karthik Sridharan, now on the Cornell faculty
Former postdoc Kris Iyer, now on the Cornell faculty
Former MD/PhD student Renuka Nayak, now on the UCSF faculty
Former doctoral student Tanmoy Chakraborty, now at Facebook
Former postdocUmar Syed, now at Google Research NYC
Former doctoral student Jinsong Tan, now at Square
Former postdocEugene Vorobeychik, now on the Washington University faculty
Former postdoc Giro Cavallo, now at Yahoo! NYC
Former doctoral student Jenn Wortman Vaughan, now at Microsoft Research NYC
Former postdocEyal Even-Dar, now at Final Israel
Former doctoral student Sid Suri, now at Microsoft Research NYC
Former postdocSham Kakade, now on the Harvard faculty
Former postdocRyan Porter
Former postdocLuis Ortiz, now on the University of Michigan-Dearborn CS faculty
Former postdocJohn Langford, now at Microsoft Research NYC
TEACHING AND TUTORIAL MATERIAL
Teaching Spring 2025:CIS 4230/5230,Ethical Algorithm Design.
Teaching Fall 2024:CIS 6250,Theory of Machine Learning.
Web page for the undergraduate courseNetworked Life (NETS 112), Fall 2019and a condensedonline video version.
(See also the Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011 (hosted at Lore), Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, and Spring 2004 offerings.)
Web page forMKSE 150: Market and Social Systems on the Internet, Spring 2013,taught jointly with Aaron Roth.
Web page for the graduate seminarNo Regrets in Learning and Game Theory, Spring 2013,run jointly with Aaron Roth.
Here are the slides for my STOC 2012 tutorial on Algorithmic Trading and Computational Finance
Web page forCIS 625, Spring 2018: Computational Learning Theory.Here is the Spring 2016 version,anearlier version with Grigory Yaroslavtsev, anearlier version with Jake Abernethy, and anearlier version with Koby Crammer.
Web page for the graduate seminar courseSocial Networks and Algorithmic Game Theory, Fall 2009
Web page for CIS 620, Fall 2007: Seminar on Foundations of Cryptography.
Web page for CIS 620, Fall 2006: Seminar on Sponsored Search.
Web page for the graduate seminar CIS 700/04: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Fall 2004).
Web page for CIS 700/04: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Fall 2003).
Web page for a course on Computational Game Theory (Spring 2003). This was a joint course between CIS and Wharton (listed as CIS 620 and Wharton OPIM 952).
Course web page for CIS 620: Advanced Topics in AI (Spring 2002)
Course web page for CIS 620: Advanced Topics in AI (Spring 1997)
Web page for NIPS 2002 Tutorial on Computational Game Theory.
ACL 1999 Tutorial Slides [PDF]
Course Outline and Material for 1999 Bellairs Institute Workshop
Theoretical Issues in Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence (FOCS 98 Tutorial) [PDF]
A Short Course in Computational Learning Theory: ICML '97 and AAAI '97 Tutorials [PDF]
PRESS/MEDIA
Below are some press/media articles about my research/work, or in which I am quoted, or which I authored. (Some links are behind paywalls or are unfortunately now dead.)
Daily Pennsylvanian articleabout fireside chat with Yann LeCun, April 2025.
Daily Pennsylvanian articleabout National Academy members open letter about threats to science, April 2025.
Associated Press articleon Hinton/Hopfield Nobel Prize in Physics, October 2024.
Innovating responsibly with generative AI,the Guardian, October 2024.
Areview in the Spectatorof the Savoy Company of Philadelphiaproduction of "The Grand Duke", August 2024. (OK not work-related but how cool!)
FastCompany summary of panel onAI and public safety,July 2024.
Article in Information Weekon AWS Financial Services Symposium Panel on Responsible AI, June 2024.
Philadelphia 6 ABC pieceon generative AI, June 2024.
Articles inSemaforandPenn Engineering blogon thismodel disgorgement paper,May 2024.
Philadelphia FOX29 TV piece onPenn Engineering's new AI major,February 2024.
Podcast onresponsible AI in the generative era,on This Week in Machine Learning with Sam Charrington, December 2023.
Ever-so-briefsound bite about ChatGPTon NPR's All Thing Considered, November 2023.
InformationWeek article onChatGPT and the Great App-ocalypse,November 2023.
Amazon post onclean rooms differential privacy product launch,November 2023.
Amazon Science blog post onResponsible AI in the wild: Lessons learned at AWS,with Aaron Roth, November 2023.
Article about Apple and generative AIin AI Business, October 2023.
Article about LLM prompt researchin AI Business, September 2023.
"Bridging Philly"podcastand radio program on generative AI with Cary Coglianese and host Raquel Williams, July 2023.
Penn Engineeringpodcastandvideoon "The Growth and Impact of Generative AI", May 2023.
Amazon Science blog post onResponsible AI in the generative era,May 2023.
Penn Engineering blog post on the vulnerability of US Census data to reconstruction attack,February 2023.
"The Take" podcast episode on the human cost of ChatGPT,February 2023.
Philadelphia Inquirer article on face scanning at PHL,January 2023.
Die Zeit Article on ChatGPT, January 2023.
This Week in Machine Learningpodcast with Sam Charrington, January 2023.
Articles on AWS AI/ML launch of service cards inReuters, Tech Times,andVenture Beat,December 2022.
"Eye on AI" podcast,August 2022.
Science News article on AI and ethics,February 2022.
Interview with Clubic related to AWS ML Summit (en Francais),June 2021.
Actuia article related to AWS ML Summit (en Francais),May 2021.
Press release on election to National Academy of Sciencesand anarticle in Penn Today,April 2021.
"Who Should Stop Unethical AI?", The New Yorker [PDF version]February 2021, and a follow-up article in Psychology Today,April 2021.
Penn Gazette interview on "The Ethical Algorithm",November 2020.
Series of articles on bias in AI in Quartz,March 2020.
NPR Marketplace on algorithmic trading and coronavirus fears,March 2020.
Ipse Dixit podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm",March 2020.
WHYY's The Pulse piece on "Can Algorithms Help Judges Make Fair Decisions?",February 2020.
Tech Nation interview with Moira Gunn on "The Ethical Algorithm",January 2020.
Interview with Aaron Roth about "The Ethical Algorithm" in SINC (Spanish),January 2020.
Philadelphia Inquirer article about face scanning at PHL,January 2020.
Fintech Beat podcast with Chris Brummer on "The Ethical Algorithm",January 2020.
Review of "The Ethical Algorithm" in Nature,January 2020.
Discussion of "The Ethical Algorithm" at Keystone Strategy NYC, aired on CSPAN's Book TV,December 2019.
Discussion of "The Ethical Algorithm" on Beyond50 Radio,December 2019.
"The Ethical Algorithm" on Talks at Google,December 2019.
Steptoe CyberLaw podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm",December 2019.
Podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm" for Carnegie Council,December 2019.
Podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm" on Knowledge@Wharton,December 2019.
Podcast of Seattle Town Hall talk on "The Ethical Algorithm", moderated by Eric Horvitz,November 2019.
Interview about "The Ethical Algorithm" on WHYY's Radio Times (at 32 minute mark),November 2019.
Opinion piece adapted from themes in "The Ethical Algorithm" in Scientific American,November 2019.
Excerpt from "The Ethical Algorithm" in Penn Today,November 2019.
NPR Marketplace Morning Report interview on "The Ethical Algorithm",October 2019.
Very brief informational article on deepfakes in Christian Science Monitor,October 2019.
Knowledge@Wharton article on the market for consumer data and related privacy concerns,October 2019.
A couple of articles in Penn Todayon AI, ML and "The Ethical Algorithm" and arelated podcast, September 2019.
NPR Marketplace interview on presidential tweets, market volatility and algorithms (roughly the 2 minute mark),August 2019.
Knowledge@Wharton article on data privacy, anonymity, and re-identification,August 2019.
WSJ article on Wall Street and academia,May 2019.
Bloomberg article on machine learning at Morgan Stanley,April 2019.
Fast Company article by Kartik Hosanagar on an algorithmic bill of rights,March 2019.
Bloomberg article about shutdown of the legendary Prediction Company,September 2018.
Bloomberg article about joining Morgan Stanley,June 2018.
NYT article on the EU's GDPR,May 2018.
Penn News article on fairness gerrymandering,February 2018.
NPR Marketplace interview on algorithmic trading and market volatility,February 2018.
"Data Skeptic" podcast with Kyle Polich on machine learning, computational complexity, game theory, trading, fairness etc.November 2017.
WSJ article on financial markets counterterrorism.October 2017.
Regulatory Review article on fairness in machine learning.October 2017.
Axios article on "intimiate" data and machine learning,September 2017.
Interview on Fairness in Machine Learning.Aired on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, August 2017.
Pasatiempo Magazine (Santa Fe New Mexican) article about SFI lecture on machine learning and social norms,April 2017.
CBS Sunday Morning segment on "Luck",September 2016.
Bloomberg news article on machine learning and macroeconomic policy,and a related radio segment onBloomberg Surveillance,June 2016.
Some coverage of the articlePrivate Algorithms for the Protected in Social Network SearchinQuartz, Pacific Standard, Motherboard, Naked Scientists, Groks Science, PBS Newshour,andupenn.edu,Jan-June 2016.
MIT Technology Review article on Cloverpop, September 2014.
Bloomberg News article on HFT and hybrid quant funds, March 2014
Discussions of PAC and SQ learning and their relevance to evolution in Les Valiant's book "Probably Approximately Correct", June 2013
NPR text and audio on Coursera, online education, and Penn, October 2012
Australian radio program "Future Tense" on "The Algorithm", March 2012
Chapter on biased voting experiments in Garth Sundem's book "Brain Trust", 2012.
ScienceNews article on Princeton fish consensus experiments, December 2011.
A profileof and an interview with Les Valiant upon his receiving the 2010 Turing Award, CACM June 2011.
Profile and lecture overview,Christ's College Pieces, Lent Term 2011.
Fiscal Times article on machine learning and technology in trading, March 2011,
Wired Magazine article on algorithmic trading, January 2011, and some more extensive remarks and one-year follow-up on the author's blog.
Science News article on light speed propagation delays in trading, October 2010
Economist article on flash crash autopsy, October 2010
WSJ online post on HFT research, September 2010
Discussion of behavioral social network experiments in Peter Miller's "The Smart Swarm" (Chapter 3, page 139 forward)
Atlantic article on HFT "crop circles", August 2010
Nature News article on "distributed thinking", August 2010
Wall Street Journal article on machine learning in quant trading, July 2010 and a related interview on CNBC
New Scientist article on "Why Facebook friends are worth keeping", July 2010; here is a free reproduction
Philadelphia Business Journal article on the MKSE program and Networked Life, October 2009
Discussion of behavioral social network experiments in Christakis and Fowler's "Connected" (page 165 foward)
Philadelphia Inquirer article on networked voting experiments, March 2009
Science Daily article on networked voting experiments, February 2009
The Trade magazine article natural language processing for algorithmic trading, September 2007
Bloomberg Markets magazine article on AI on Wall Street, June 2007
SIAM News article on behavioral graph coloring, November 2006
Philadelphia Inquirer article on network science and NSA link analysis, May 2006
Chicago Tribune article on privacy in blogs and social networks, November 2005
Chronicle of Higher Education article on Facebook and social networks, May 2004
Star-Ledger article on the demise of AT&T Labs, March 2004
Business Week Online article on technology in NASDAQ and NYSE, September 2003
Philadelphia Inquirer article on ISTAR, interdependent security, and games on networks, January 2003
Washington Post article on web-based chatterbots, September 2002
New Scientist article on the Cobot spoken dialogue system, August 2002
Tornado Insider article on DDoS attacks, January 2002 [Cover]
Tornado Insider article on biometric security, January 2002
Audio of COMNET panel "Staving Off Denial-of-Service Attacks and Detecting Malicious Code"
Tornado Insider article on natural language technology, September 2001
Tornado Insider article on robotics, July 2001
Il Sole 24 Ore profile, June 2001 [English Translation]
Corriere Della Sera profile, May 2001 [English Translation]
Associated Press article on software robots, February 2001
New York Times article on TAC, August 2000
New York Times on Cobot, February 2000
TIME Digital Magazine (now Time On) on Cobot, May 2000
Washington Post article on Cobot, December 2000
New York Times article on boosting, August 1999
PUBLICATIONS:BOOKS
The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning. This revision of my doctoral dissertation was published by the MIT Press as part of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Series. As it is now out of print, I am making it available for downloading below.
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PUBLICATIONS: RESEARCH ARTICLES
What follows is a listing of (almost) all of my research papers in (approximately) reverse chronological order. For papers with both a conference and journal version, the paper is usually placed by its first (conference) date. Also, as per the honorable tradition of the theoretical computer science community, on almost all of the papers below that are primarily mathematical in content, authors are listed alphabetically.
Acronyms for conferences and journals include: AAAI: Annual National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; AIES: AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society; AISTATS: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics; ALT: Algorithmic Learning Theory; COLT: Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory; EC: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation; FAccT: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (formerly FAT* and FATML); FOCS: IEEE Foundations of Computer Science; HCOMP: AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing; ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision; ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning; IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; ITCS: Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science; NIPS/NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems; PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; SaTML: IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning; SODA: ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms; STOC: ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computation; UAI: Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence; WINE: Workshop on Internet and Network Economics.
In addition to the list below, you can also look at my page onGoogle Scholar,and this DBLP queryseems to do a pretty good job of finding those publications that appeared in mainstream CS venues (though not others), and can be useful for generating bibtex citations.
- Intersectional Fairness in Reinforcement Learning with Large State and Constraint Spaces. with E. Eaton, M. Hussing, A. Roth, S. Sengupta, and J. Sorrell. ICML 2025.
[arXiv version] - Model Ensembling for Constrained Optimization. With I. Globus-Harris, V. Gupta, and Aaron Roth. FORC 2025.
[arXiv version] - Algorithmic Aspects of Strategic Trading. With M. Shi. Preprint, 2025.
[arXiv version] - Hallucination, Monofacts and Miscalibration: An Empirical Investigation. With M. Miao. Preprint, 2025.
[arXiv version] - Improving LLM Group Fairness on Tabular Data via In-Context Learning. With V. Cherepanova, C.J. Lee, N. Akpinar, R. Fogliato, M. Bertran, and James Zou. Preprint, 2024.
[arXiv version] - Oracle-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Max Value Ensembles. With M. Hussing, A. Roth, S. Sengupta, and J. Sorrell. NeurIPS 2024.
[arXiv version] - Reconstruction Attacks on Machine Unlearning: Simple Models are Vulnerable With M. Bertran, S. Tang, J. Morgenstern, A. Roth, and Z.S. Wu. NeurIPS 2024. (Preliminary version in Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy, 2024.)
[arXiv version] - AI Model Disgorgement: Methods and Choices. With A. Achille, C. Klingenberg, and S. Soatto. PNAS, April 2024.
[PNAS online version] [PDF] - Diversified Ensembling: An Experiment in Crowdsourced Machine Learning. With I. Globus-Harris, D. Harrison, P. Perona, and A. Roth. FAccT 2024.
[arXiv version] - Balanced Filtering via Non-Disclosive Proxies. With S. Deng, E. Diana, and A. Roth. FORC 2024.
[arXiv version] - Improved Differentially Private Regression via Gradient Boosting. With S. Tang, S. Aydore, S. Rho, A. Roth, Y. Wang, Y-X. Wang, and Z.S. Wu. SaTML 2024.
[arXiv version] - Replicable Reinforcement Learning. With E. Eaton, M. Hussing, and J. Sorrell. NeurIPS 2023.
[arXiv version] - Scalable Membership Inference Attacks via Quantile Regression. With M. Bertran, S. Tang, J. Morgenstern, A. Roth, and Z.S. Wu. NeurIPS 2023.
[arXiv version] - Generating Relaxed Synthetic Data Using Adaptive Projection. With S. Aydore, W. Brown, K. Kenthapadi, L. Melis, A. Roth and A. Siva. U.S. Patents No. 11,487,765 and 11,841,863, November 2022 and December 2023.
[765 patent PDF] [863 patent PDF] - Multicalibration as Boosting for Regression. With I. Globus-Harris, D. Harrison, A. Roth and J. Sorrell. ICML 2023.
[arXiv version] - Confidence-Ranked Reconstruction of Census Microdata from Published Statistics. With T. Dick, C. Dwork, T. Liu, A. Roth, G. Vietri, and Z.S. Wu. PNAS, February 2023.
[PNAS version] [arXiv version] [Commentary by U.S. Census researchers] [A silly letter andour response] - Multicalibrated Regression for Downstream Fairness. With I. Globus-Harris, V. Gupta, C. Jung, J. Morgenstern, and A. Roth. AIES 2023.
[arXiv version] - Efficient Stackelberg Strategies for Finitely Repeated Games. With E. Arunachaleswaran and N. Collina. AAMAS 2023.
[arXiv version] - Private Synthetic Data for Multitask Learning and Marginal Queries. With G. Vietri, C. Archambeau, S. Aydore, W. Brown, A. Roth, A. Siva, S. Tang, and Z.S. Wu. NeurIPS 2022.
[arXiv version] - An Algorithmic Framework for Bias Bounties. With I. Globus-Harris and A. Roth. FAccT 2022.
[arXiv version] - Multiaccurate Proxies for Downstream Fairness. With E. Diana, W. Gill, K. Kenthapadi, A. Roth, and S. Sharifi-Malvajerdi. FAccT 2022.
[arXiv version] - Mixed Differential Privacy in Computer Vision. With A. Golatkar, A. Achille, Y. Wang, A. Roth, and S.Soatto. ICCV 2022.
[arXiv version] - Differentially Private Query Release Through Adaptive Projection. With S. Aydore, W. Brown, K. Kenthapadi, L. Melis, A. Roth and A. Siva. ICML 2021.
[arXiv version] [github repo] - Algorithms and Learning for Fair Portfolio Design. With E. Diana, T. Dick, H. Elzayn, A. Roth, Z. Schutzman, S. Sharifi-Malvajerdi, and J. Ziani. ACM EC 2021.
[arXiv version] - Lexicographically Fair Learning: Algorithms and Generalization. With E. Diana, W. Gill, I. Globus-Harris, A. Roth and S. Sharifi-Malvajerdi. Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC), 2021.
[arXiv version] - An Algorithmic Framework for Fairness Elicitation. With C. Jung, S. Neel, A. Roth, L. Stapleton, and Z.S. Wu. Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC), 2021.
[arXiv version] - Minimax Group Fairness: Algorithms and Experiments. With E. Diana, W. Gill, K. Kenthapadi, and A. Roth. AIES 2021.
[arXiv version] [github repo] - Optimal, Truthful and Private Securities Lending. With E. Diana, S. Neel, and A. Roth. ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, 2020.
[arXiv version] - Differentially Private Call Auctions and Market Impact. With E. Diana, H. Elzayn, A. Roth, S. Sharifi-Malvajerdi, and J. Ziani. ACM EC 2020.
[arXiv version] [EC version] [EC talk] - Ethical Algorithm Design Should Guide Technology Regulation. With A. Roth. Brookings Institution policy briefing, 2020.
[Brookings link] - Average Individual Fairness: Algorithms, Generalization and Experiments. With A. Roth and S. Sharifi-Malvajerdi. NeurIPS 2019.
[arXiv version] - Equilibrium Characterization for Data Acquisition Games. With H. Elzayn, J. Dong, S. Jabbari, and Z. Schutzman. IJCAI 2019.
[PDF] - Network Formation under Random Attack and Probabilistic Spread. With Y. Chen, S. Jabbari, S. Khanna, and J. Morgenstern. IJCAI 2019.
[arXiv version] - Differentially Private Fair Learning. With M. Jagielski, J. Mao, A. Oprea, A. Roth, S. Sharifi-Malvajerdi, and J. Ullman. ICML 2019.
[arXiv version] - Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems. With H. Elzayn, S. Jabbari, C. Jung, S. Neel, A. Roth, and Z. Schutzman. ACM FAT* 2019.
[arXiv version] - An Empirical Study of Rich Subgroup Fairness for Machine Learning. With S. Neel, A. Roth, and Z.S. Wu. ACM FAT* 2019.
[arXiv version] [github repo] - Online Learning with an Unknown Fairness Metric. With S. Gillen, C. Jung and A. Roth. NeurIPS 2018.
[arXiv version] - Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments: The State of the Art. With R. Berk, H. Heidari, S. Jabbari, and A. Roth. Sociological Methods and Research, July 2018.
[arXiv version] [SMR version] - Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness. With S. Neel, A. Roth, and Z.S. Wu. ICML 2018.
[arXiv version] [github repo] [short video] [tcs+ talk video] - Data Intimacy, Machine Learning, and Consumer Privacy. Penn Law CTIC whitepaper, May 2018.
[PDF] - Fair Algorithms for Infinite and Contextual Bandits. With M. Joseph, J. Morgenstern, S. Neel, and A. Roth. AIES 2018. (Earlier version appeared in FATML, 2017.)
[arXiv version] [AIES version] - A Convex Framework for Fair Regression. With R. Berk, H. Heidari, S. Jabbari, M. Joseph, J. Morgenstern, S. Neel, and A. Roth. FATML 2017.
[arXiv version] [FATML version] - Meritocratic Fairness for Cross-Population Selection. With A. Roth and Z.S. Wu. ICML 2017.
[PDF] - Fairness in Reinforcement Learning. With S. Jabbari, M. Joseph, J. Morgenstern, and A. Roth. ICML 2017.
[PDF] - Predicting with Distributions. With Z.S. Wu. COLT 2017.
[COLT version] [arXiv version] - Fairness Incentives for Myopic Agents. With S. Kannan, J. Morgenstern, M. Pai, A. Roth, R. Vorhra, and Z.S. Wu. ACM EC 2017.
[EC version] [arXiv version] - Mathematical Foundations for Social Computing. With Y. Chen, A. Ghosh, T. Roughgarden, and J. Wortman Vaughan. CACM, December 2016.
[PDF] - Fairness in Learning: Classic and Contextual Bandits. With M. Joseph, J. Morgenstern, and A. Roth. NIPS 2016.
[NIPS version] [arXiv version] - Strategic Network Formation with Attack and Immunization. With S. Goyal, S. Jabbari, S. Khanna, and J. Morgenstern. WINE 2016.
[arXiv version] - Tight Policy Regret Bounds for Improving and Decaying Bandits. With H. Heidari and A. Roth. IJCAI 2016.
[PDF] - Private Algorithms for the Protected in Social Network Search. With A. Roth, Z.S. Wu, and G. Yaroslavtsev. PNAS, January 2016.
[PNAS version] [arXiv version] - Robust Mediators in Large Games. With M. Pai, R. Rogers, A. Roth, and J. Ullman. (Subsumes and expands "Mechanism Design in Large Games: Incentives and Privacy", ITCS 2014.)
[arXiv version] - The Small-World Network of Squash. With R. Rayfield. Squash Magazine, October 2015.
[PDF] [online version] - Privacy and Truthful Equilibrium Selection for Aggregative Games. With R. Cummings, A. Roth, and Z.S. Wu. WINE 2015.
[PDF] [arXiv version] - From "In" to "Over": Behavioral Experiments on Whole-Network Computation. With L. Dworkin. HCOMP 2015.
[PDF] - Online Learning and Profit Maximization from Revealed Preferences. With K. Amin, R. Cummings, L.Dworkin, and A. Roth. AAAI 2015.
[AAAI version] [arXiv version] - Competitive Contagion in Networks. With H. Heidari and S. Goyal. To appear in Games and Economic Behavior. (This paper is an expanded version of the Goyal-Kearns STOC 2012 paper, and contains a number of new results.)
[PDF] - A Computational Study of Feasible Repackings in the FCC Incentive Auctions. With L.Dworkin. White paper filed with the Federal Communications Commission, June 2014.
[arXiv version] [Ex Parte Cover Letter] - Pursuit-Evasion Without Regret, with an Application to Trading. With L.Dworkin and Y. Nevmyvaka. ICML 2014.
[PDF] - Learning from Contagion (Without Timestamps) With K. Amin and H. Heidari. ICML 2014.
[PDF] - New Models for Competitive Contagion. With M. Draief and H. Heidari. AAAI 2014.
[PDF] - Efficient Inference for Complex Queries on Complex Distributions. With L. Dworkin and L. Xia. AISTATS 2014.
[PDF] - Marginals-to-Models Reducibility. With T. Roughgarden. NIPS 2013.
[PDF] - Machine Learning for Market Microstructure and High Frequency Trading. With Y. Nevmyvaka.High Frequency Trading - New Realities for Traders, Markets and Regulators , M. O'Hara, M. Lopez de Prado, D. Easley, editors. Risk Books, 2013.
[PDF] [publisher link] - Stress-Induced Changes in Gene Interactions in Human Cells. With R. Nayak, W. Bernal, J. Lee, and V. Cheung. Nucleic Acids Research, 2013, 1-15.
[PDF] - Depth-Workload Tradeoffs for Workforce Organization. With H. Heidari. HCOMP 2013.
[PDF] - Large-Scale Bandit Problems and KWIK Learning. With J. Abernethy, K. Amin, and M. Draief. ICML 2013.
[PDF] - Experiments in Social Computation. Communications of the ACM, October 2012.
[PDF] - Budget Optimization for Sponsored Search: Censored Learning in MDPs. With K. Amin, P. Key and A. Schwaighofer. UAI 2012.
[PDF] - Behavioral Experiments on a Network Formation Game. With S. Judd and Y. Vorobeychik. ACM EC 2012.
[PDF] - Competitive Contagion in Networks. With S. Goyal. STOC 2012.
[PDF] - Colonel Blotto on Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations on Strategic Interaction. with P. Kohli, Y. Bachrach, D. Stillwell, R. Herbrich, T. Graepel. ACM Web Science, 2012.
[PDF] - Learning and Predicting Dynamic Behavior with Graphical Multiagent Models. With Q. Duong, M. Wellman, and S. Singh. AAMAS 2012.
[PDF] - Behavioral Conflict and Fairness in Social Networks. With S. Judd and E. Vorobeychik. WINE 2011.
[PDF] - A Clustering Coefficient Network Formation Game. With M. Brautbar. Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), 2011.
[PDF] - Graphical Models for Bandit Problems. With K. Amin and U. Syed. UAI 2011.
[PDF] - Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack Dimension. With K. Amin and U. Syed. COLT 2011. (K. Amin, Best Student Presentation at NY Academy of Sciences ML workshop)
[PDF] - Market Making and Mean Reversion. With T. Chakraborty. ACM EC 2011.
[PDF] - Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology. PCAST Working Group. Report to the President and Congress, December 2010.
[PDF] [Related Material] - Empirical Limitations on High Frequency Trading Profitability. With A. Kulesza and Y. Nevmyvaka. Journal of Trading, Fall 2010. (JOT Best Paper Award for 2010)
[SSRN version] [arXiv version] [JOT link] - Behavioral Dynamics and Influence in Networked Coloring and Consensus. With S. Judd and Y. Vorobeychik. PNAS, August 2010.
[PDF] [PNAS link] - Private and Third-Party Randomization in Risk-Sensitive Equilibrium Concepts. With M. Brautbar, U. Syed. AAAI 2010.
[PDF] - A Behavioral Study of Bargaining in Social Networks. With T. Chakraborty, S. Judd, J. Tan. ACM EC 2010.
[PDF] - Local Algorithms for Finding Interesting Individuals in Large Networks. With M. Brautbar. Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), 2010.
[PDF] - Coexpression Network Based on Natural Variation in Human Gene Expression Reveals Gene Interactions and Functions. With R. Nayak, R. Spielman, V. Cheung. Genome Science, November 2009.
[Web Link] [PDF] [Cover Image] - Censored Exploration and the Dark Pool Problem. With K. Ganchev, Y. Nevmyvaka, J. Wortman. UAI 2009. Journal version in CACM, May 2010. (UAI Best Student Paper Award, K. Ganchev and J. Wortman)
[PDF] [CACM version] [Peter Bartlett commentary] [BofA marketing summary] - Networked Bargaining: Algorithms and Structural Results. With T. Chakraborty and S. Khanna. ACM EC 2009.
[PDF] - Behavioral Experiments on Biased Voting in Networks. With S. Judd, J. Tan and J. Wortman. PNAS, January 2009.
[PDF] - Biased Voting and the Democratic Primary Problem. With J. Tan. WINE 2008.
[PDF] - Bargaining Solutions in a Social Network. With T. Chakraborty. WINE 2008.
[PDF] - Learning from Collective Behavior. With J. Wortman. COLT 2008.
[PDF] - Behavioral Experiments in Networked Trade. With S. Judd. ACM EC 2008.
[PDF] - Graphical Games. In Algorithmic Game Theory, N. Nisan, T. Roughgarden, E. Tardos and V. Vazirani, editors, Cambridge University Press, September, 2007.
[PDF] - Sponsored Search with Contexts. With E. Even-Dar and J. Wortman. WINE 2007. The following longer version appeared in the Third Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions, WWW 2007.
[PDF] - Empirical Price Modeling for Sponsored Search. With K. Ganchev, A. Kulesza, J. Tan, R. Gabbard, Q. Liu. WINE 2007. The following longer version appeared in the Third Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions, WWW 2007.
[PDF] - A Network Formation Game for Bipartite Exchange Economies. With E. Even-Dar and S. Suri. ACM SODA 2007.
[PDF] [Extended Version, PDF] - Privacy-Preserving Belief Propagation and Sampling. With J. Tan and J. Wortman. NIPS 2007.
[PDF] - Regret to the Best vs. Regret to the Average. With E. Even-Dar, Y. Mansour, and J. Wortman. COLT 2007. Journal version in Machine Learning Journal, volume 71, 2008. (J. Wortman, COLT Best Student Paper Award)
[COLT Version] [MLJ Version] - A Small World Threshold for Economic Network Formation. With E. Even-Dar. NIPS 2006.
[PDF] - An Experimental Study of the Coloring Problem on Human Subject Networks. With S. Suri and N. Montfort. Science 313(5788), August 2006, pp. 824-827.
[Abstract] [Full Paper] [PDF] - Networks Preserving Evolutionary Stability and the Power of Randomization. With S. Suri. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2006.
[PDF] - (In)Stability Properties of Limit Order Dynamics. With E. Even-Dar, S. Kakade, and Y. Mansour. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2006.
[PDF] - Reinforcement Learning for Optimized Trade Execution. With Y. Nevmyvaka and Y. Feng. ICML 2006.
[PDF] - Risk-Sensitive Online Learning. With E. Even-Dar and J. Wortman. ALT 2006. This is a corrected version posted Oct 4 2006. This version corrects errors in the section of experimental results published in the ALT 2006 proceedings.
[PDF] - Learning from Multiple Sources. With K. Crammer and J. Wortman. NIPS 2006; also in JMLR 2008.
[PDF] [Journal Version PDF] - Economics, Computer Science, and Policy.
Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2005.
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[Cover Image] - Electronic Trading in Order-Driven Markets: Efficient Execution. With Y. Nevmyvaka, A. Papandreou and K. Sycara. IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC), 2005.
[PDF] - Trading in Markovian Price Models. With S. Kakade. COLT 2005.
[PDF] - Learning from Data of Variable Quality. With K. Crammer and J. Wortman. NIPS 2005.
[PDF] - Economic Properties of Social Networks. With S. Kakade, L. Ortiz, R. Pemantle, and S. Suri. Proceedings of NIPS 2004.
[PDF] - Graphical Economics. With S. Kakade and L. Ortiz. Proceedings of COLT 2004.
[PDF] - Competitive Algorithms for VWAP and Limit Order Trading. With S. Kakade, Y. Mansour and L. Ortiz. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2004.
[PDF] - Algorithms for Interdependent Security Games. With L. Ortiz. NIPS 2003.
[PDF] - Correlated Equilibria in Graphical Games. With S. Kakade, J. Langford, and L. Ortiz. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2003.
[PDF] - The Penn-Lehman Automated Trading Project. With L. Ortiz. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Nov/Dec 2003.
IEEE version [PDF] Long version [PDF] - Exploration in Metric State Spaces. With S. Kakade and J. Langford. ICML 2003.
[PDF] - Optimizing Dialogue Management with Reinforcement Learning: Experiments with the NJFun System. With S. Singh, D. Litman, M. Walker. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2002.
[PDF] - Nash Propagation for Loopy Graphical Games. With L. Ortiz. Proceedings of NIPS 2002.
[PDF] - Efficient Nash Computation in Large Population Games with Bounded Influence. With Y. Mansour. Proceedings of UAI 2002.
[PDF] - A Note on the Representational Incompatabilty of Function Approximation and Factored Dynamics. With E. Allender, S. Arora, C. Moore, A. Russell. Proceedings of NIPS 2002.
[PDF] - CobotDS: A Spoken Dialogue System for Chat. With C. Isbell, S. Singh, D. Litman, J. Howe. Proceedings of AAAI 2002.
[PDF] - An Efficient Exact Algorithm for Singly Connected Graphical Games. With M. Littman, S. Singh. 2001. NIPS 2001.
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NOTE:The main result of the paper above --- an efficient algorithm claimed to find a single exactNash equilibrium in tree graphical games --- is unfortunatelywrong.This was discovered and discussed in the very nice paper by Elkind, Goldberg and Goldberg, which can be foundhere.The problem of efficiently computing an exact Nash equilibrium in trees remains open (though EG&G demonstrate that no two-pass algorithm can suffice). The original polynomial-time approximateNash algorithm from the K., Littman, Singh UAI 2001 paper is unaffected by these developments, as is its NashProp generalization in the Ortiz and K. 2002 NIPS paper.
- Graphical Models for Game Theory. With M. Littman, S. Singh. 2001. UAI 2001.
[PDF] - ATTac-2000: An Adaptive Autonomous Bidding Agent. With P. Stone, M. Littman, S. Singh. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research . Earlier version in Proceedings of Agents 2001.
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New York Times article on TAC - A Social Reinforcement Learning Agent. With C. Shelton, C. Isbell, S. Singh, P. Stone.Proceedings of Agents 2001. Winner of Best Paper Award at the Conference.
[PDF] - Nash Convergence of Gradient Dynamics in General-Sum Games. With S. Singh, Y. Mansour. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, pages 541-548, 2000.
[PDF] - Fast Planning in Stochastic Games. With Y. Mansour, S. Singh. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, pages 309-316, 2000.
[PDF] - Bias-Variance Error Bounds for Temporal Difference Updates. With S. Singh. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, 2000, pages 142--147.
[PDF] - Approximate Planning in Large POMDPs via Reusable Trajectories. With Y. Mansour and A. Ng. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12, MIT Press, 2000.
[PDF] [Long Version] - Testing Problems with Sub-Learning Sample Complexity. With D. Ron.Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 61, pp. 428-456, 2000. Earlier version in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory.
[PDF] - Cobot in LambdaMOO: A Social Statistics Agent. With C. Isbell, D. Kormann, S. Singh, P. Stone.Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 36-41, 2000, AAAI Press/MIT Press.
[PDF] - Empirical Evaluation of a Reinforcement Learning Spoken Dialogue System. With S. Singh, D. Litman, M. Walker.Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 645-651, 2000, AAAI Press/MIT Press.
[PDF] - Automatic Optimization of Dialogue Management. With D. Litman, S. Singh, M. Walker. Appeared in COLING 2000.
[PDF] - A Boosting Approach to Topic Spotting on Subdialogues. With K. Myers, S. Singh, M. Walker. Appeared in ICML 2000.
[PDF] - Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems. With S. Singh, D. Litman and M. Walker.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12, MIT Press, 2000.
[PDF] - Automatic Detection of Poor Speech Recognition at the Dialogue Level. With D. Litman and M. Walker.Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting for Computational Linguistics, 1999, pages 309-316.
[PDF] - A Sparse Sampling Algorithm for Near-Optimal Planning in Large Markov Decision Processes. With Y. Mansour and A. Ng. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, pages 1324--1331. Also appeared in a special issue of the journal_Machine Learning_, 2002.
[PDF, Journal Version] - Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs. With D. Koller.Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, pages 740--747.
[PDF] - Finite-Sample Rates of Convergence for Q-Learning and Indirect Methods. With S. Singh. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, The MIT Press, 1999, pages 996--1002.
[PDF] - Inference in Multilayer Networks via Large Deviation Bounds. with L. Saul. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, The MIT Press, 1999, pages 260--266.
[PDF] - Large Deviation Methods for Approximate Probabilistic Inference, with Rates of Convergence. With L. Saul.Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998, pages 311--319.
[PDF] - Exact Inference of Hidden Structure from Sample Data in Noisy-OR Networks. With Y. Mansour.Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998, pages 304--310.
[PDF] - Near-Optimal Reinforcement Learning in Polynomial Time. With S. Singh. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 260-268, 1998, Morgan Kaufmann. Appeared in a special issue of the journal Machine Learning.
[PDF] - A Fast, Bottom-Up Decision Tree Pruning Algorithm with Near-Optimal Generalization. With Y. Mansour. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Machine Learning, 1998, Morgan Kaufmann, pages 269--277.
[PDF] - An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Hard and Soft Assignment Methods for Clustering. with Y. Mansour and A. Ng.Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 282-293, 1997, Morgan Kaufmann.
[PDF] - Algorithmic Stability and Sanity-Check Bounds for Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation. With D. Ron.Neural Computation 11(6), pages 1427-1453, 1999. Earlier version in Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, ACM Press, 1997, pages 152--162.
[PDF] - Boosting Theory Towards Practice: Recent Developments in Decision Tree Induction and the Weak Learning Framework. Abstract accompanying invited talk given at AAAI '96, Portland, Oregon, August 1996.
[PDF] - Applying the Weak Learning Framework to Understand and Improve C4.5. With T. Dietterich and Y. Mansour.Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 96-104, 1996, Morgan Kaufmann.
[PDF] - On the Boosting Ability of Top-Down Decision Tree Learning Algorithms. With Y. Mansour.Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, 58(1), 1999, pages 109-128. Earlier version in_Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing_, pp.459-468, 1996, ACM Press.
[PDF] - A Bound on the Error of Cross Validation Using the Approximation and Estimation Rates, with Consequences for the Training-Test Split. Neural Computation 9(5), 1997, pages 1143--1161. Earlier version in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, The MIT Press, pages 183--189, 1996.
[PDF] - An Experimental and Theoretical Comparison of Model Selection Methods. With Y. Mansour, A. Ng, and D. Ron.Machine Learning 27(1), 1997, pages 7--50. Earlier version in Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory, ACM Press, 1995, pages 21--30.
[COLT version] [MLJ version] - On the Consequences of the Statistical Mechanics Theory of Learning Curves for the Model Selection Problem. Neural Networks: The Statistical Mechanics Perspective, pp. 277-284, 1995, World Scientific.
[PDF] - Efficient Algorithms for Learning to Play Repeated Games Against Computationally Bounded Adversaries. With Y. Freund, Y. Mansour, D. Ron, R. Rubinfeld, and R. Schapire.Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 332-341, 1995, IEEE Press.
[PDF] - Horn Approximations of Empirical Data. With H. Kautz and B. Selman. Artificial Intelligence, 74(1), pages 129-145, 1995.
[PDF] - On the Complexity of Teaching. With S. Goldman.Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, 50(1), pp. 20-31, 1995.
[PDF] - On the Learnability of Discrete Distributions. With Y. Mansour, R. Rubinfeld, D. Ron, R. Schapire, and L. Sellie. Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 273-282, 1994, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Cryptographic Primitives Based on Hard Learning Problems. With A. Blum, M. Furst, and R. Lipton.Advances in Cryptology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 773, pp. 278-291, 1994, Springer-Verlag.
[PDF] - Rigorous Learning Curve Bounds from Statistical Mechanics. With D. Haussler, H.S. Seung, and N. Tishby. Machine Learning,25, 1996, pages 195--236. Earlier version in_ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory_, pp. 76-87, 1994, ACM Press.
[PDF] - The Minimal Disagreement Parity Problem as a Hard Satisfiability Problem. With J. Crawford and R. Schapire. Unpublished manuscript, 1994.
[PDF] - Weakly Learning DNF and Characterizing Statistical Query Learning Using Fourier Analysis. With A. Blum, M. Furst, J. Jackson, Y. Mansour, and S. Rudich. Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 253-262, 1994, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Efficient Noise-Tolerant Learning from Statistical Queries. Journal of the ACM , 45(6), pp. 983 --- 1006, 1998. Earlier version in Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 392-401, 1993, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Efficient Learning of Typical Finite Automata from Random Walks. With Y. Freund, D. Ron, R. Rubinfeld, R. Schapire, and L. Sellie. Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 315-324, 1993, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Learning from a Population of Hypotheses. With S. Seung. Machine Learning 18, pp. 255-276, 1995. Earlier version in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pp. 101-110, 1993, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Towards Efficient Agnostic Learning. With R. Schapire and L. Sellie.Machine Learning 17, pp. 115-141, 1994. Earlier version in Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pp. 341-352, 1992, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Bounds on the Sample Complexity of Bayesian Learning Using Information Theory and the VC Dimension. With D. Haussler and R. Schapire. Machine Learning 14, pp. 83-113, 1994. Earlier version in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pp. 61-74, 1991, Morgan Kaufmann.
[PDF] - Oblivious PAC Learning of Concept Hierarchies. AAAI 1992.
[PDF] - Estimating Average-Case Learning Curves Using Bayesian, Statistical Physics, and VC Dimension Methods. With D. Haussler, M. Opper, and R. Schapire. NIPS 1991.
[PDF] - Equivalence of Models for Polynomial Learnability. With D. Haussler, N. Littlestone, and M. Warmuth. Information and Computation 95(2), pp. 129-161, 1991.
[PDF] - Efficient Distribution-free Learning of Probabilistic Concepts. With R. Schapire.Journal of Computer and System Sciences 48(3), pp. 464-497. Earlier version in Proceedings of the 31st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 382-391, 1990, IEEE Press.
[PDF] - Exact Identification of Read-once Formulas Using Fixed Points of Amplification Functions. With S. Goldman and R. Schapire. SIAM Journal on Computing 22(4), pp. 705-726. Earlier version in_Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science_, pp. 193-202, 1990, IEEE Press.
[PDF] - _A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Learning k-Variable Pattern Languages from Examples._With L. Pitt. COLT 1989. (Unfortunately missing references, bib file got corrupted)
[PDF] - Cryptographic Limitations on Learning Boolean Formulae and Finite Automata. With L. Valiant.Journal of the ACM 41(1), pp. 67-95, 1994. Earlier version in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 433-444, 1989, ACM Press.
[PDF] - A General Lower Bound on the Number of Examples Needed for Learning. With A. Ehrenfeucht, D. Haussler, and L. Valiant. Information and Computation 82(3), pp. 247-261, 1989. Earlier version in Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pp. 139-154, 1988, Morgan Kaufmann.
[PDF] - Learning in the Presence of Malicious Errors. With M. Li. SIAM Journal on Computing 22(4), pp. 807-837, 1993. Earlier version in Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 267-280, 1988, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Thoughts on Hypothesis Boosting. Unpublished manuscript, 1988. Project for Ron Rivest's machine learning course at MIT.
[PDF] - On the Learnability of Boolean Formulae. With M. Li, L. Pitt, and L. Valiant.Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 285-195, 1987, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Learning Boolean Formulae. With M. Li and L. Valiant. Journal of the ACM 41(6), pp. 1298-1328, 1995. Earlier version in Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pp. 285-195, 1987, ACM Press.
[PDF] - Recent Results in Boolean Concept Learning. With M. Li, L. Pitt and L. Valiant.Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 337-352, 1987, Morgan Kaufmann.
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