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A Unifying Human-Centered AI Fairness Framework
Rahman, Munshi Mahbubur, Pan, Shimei, Foulds, James R.
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in critical societal domains has amplified concerns about fairness, particularly regarding unequal treatment across sensitive attributes such as race, gender, and socioeconomic status. While there has been substantial work on ensuring AI fairness, navigating trade-offs between competing notions of fairness as well as predictive accuracy remains challenging, creating barriers to the practical deployment of fair AI systems. To address this, we introduce a unifying human-centered fairness framework that systematically covers eight distinct fairness metrics, formed by combining individual and group fairness, infra-marginal and intersectional assumptions, and outcome-based and equality-of-opportunity (EOO) perspectives. This structure allows stakeholders to align fairness interventions with their values and contextual considerations. The framework uses a consistent and easy-to-understand formulation for all metrics to reduce the learning curve for non-experts. Rather than privileging a single fairness notion, the framework enables stakeholders to assign weights across multiple fairness objectives, reflecting their priorities and facilitating multi-stakeholder compromises. We apply this approach to four real-world datasets: the UCI Adult census dataset for income prediction, the COMPAS dataset for criminal recidivism, the German Credit dataset for credit risk assessment, and the MEPS dataset for healthcare utilization. We show that adjusting weights reveals nuanced trade-offs between different fairness metrics. Finally, through case studies in judicial decision-making and healthcare, we demonstrate how the framework can inform practical and value-sensitive deployment of fair AI systems.
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General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on Aligning Profit With Purpose
Booth is a reporter at TIME. Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst speaks on stage during The Summit on U.S. Resilience hosted by General Catalyst Institute at The Salamander on Nov. 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst speaks on stage during The Summit on U.S. Resilience hosted by General Catalyst Institute at The Salamander on Nov. 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Hemant Taneja, who leads one of the world's largest venture firms, believes doing good isn't just the right thing to do.
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Stunning before-and-after photos show the seven most dramatic changes in Trump's controversial White House makeover She was a respected Teacher of the Year finalist... until she lost everything when Charlie Kirk was killed. Inside Andrew's family summit: How Fergie wailed and'melted down' at title loss, Beatrice and Eugenie were'blindsided' and now daughters' assets face'ethics check' to avoid more scandal: BARBARA DAVIES I have no sympathy for Britney Spears. What if her latest stunt had killed a kid? It's time to admit the truth about this public menace: KENNEDY'Nazi texts' leakers UNMASKED: Alleged White House saboteurs are finally exposed... and so is their twisted motive for destroying political prodigy Extraordinary story behind GM's decision to ax much-loved CarPlay... and sinister reason ALL manufacturers will follow What is Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease... the devastating condition that killed 9-1-1 Nashville actor Isabelle Tate Bijou Phillips files to change daughter's name after ex Danny Masterson's rape conviction Treasure hunters seeking Nazi gold worth £200MILLION believe they have'found the real thing' after'monumental' discovery under remains of SS palace'brothel' Former Gambino mob boss'Sammy the Bull' Gravano reveals the truth behind the NBA betting scandal My wife won't get a job and I feel broken trying to provide for our family. Hold on, says DEAR CAROLINE... that's bad enough but your letter raises a MUCH bigger red flag I got the body of my dreams at 51 by following 9 simple rules, says beauty guru ROSIE GREEN.
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Hallucinations and Key Information Extraction in Medical Texts: A Comprehensive Assessment of Open-Source Large Language Models
Das, Anindya Bijoy, Ahmed, Shibbir, Sakib, Shahnewaz Karim
Clinical summarization is crucial in healthcare as it distills complex medical data into digestible information, enhancing patient understanding and care management. Large language models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in automating and improving the accuracy of such summarizations due to their advanced natural language understanding capabilities. These models are particularly applicable in the context of summarizing medical/clinical texts, where precise and concise information transfer is essential. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of open-source LLMs in extracting key events from discharge reports, including admission reasons, major in-hospital events, and critical follow-up actions. In addition, we also assess the prevalence of various types of hallucinations in the summaries produced by these models. Detecting hallucinations is vital as it directly influences the reliability of the information, potentially affecting patient care and treatment outcomes. We conduct comprehensive simulations to rigorously evaluate the performance of these models, further probing the accuracy and fidelity of the extracted content in clinical summarization. Our results reveal that while the LLMs (e.g., Qwen2.5 and DeepSeek-v2) perform quite well in capturing admission reasons and hospitalization events, they are generally less consistent when it comes to identifying follow-up recommendations, highlighting broader challenges in leveraging LLMs for comprehensive summarization.
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Trustworthy Medical Imaging with Large Language Models: A Study of Hallucinations Across Modalities
Das, Anindya Bijoy, Sakib, Shahnewaz Karim, Ahmed, Shibbir
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to medical imaging tasks, including image interpretation and synthetic image generation. However, these models often produce hallucinations, which are confident but incorrect outputs that can mislead clinical decisions. This study examines hallucinations in two directions: image to text, where LLMs generate reports from X-ray, CT, or MRI scans, and text to image, where models create medical images from clinical prompts. We analyze errors such as factual inconsistencies and anatomical inaccuracies, evaluating outputs using expert informed criteria across imaging modalities. Our findings reveal common patterns of hallucination in both interpretive and generative tasks, with implications for clinical reliability. We also discuss factors contributing to these failures, including model architecture and training data. By systematically studying both image understanding and generation, this work provides insights into improving the safety and trustworthiness of LLM driven medical imaging systems.
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Unsupervised Time-Series Signal Analysis with Autoencoders and Vision Transformers: A Review of Architectures and Applications
Ahmadi, Hossein, Mahdimahalleh, Sajjad Emdadi, Farahat, Arman, Saffari, Banafsheh
The rapid growth of unlabeled time-series data in domains such as wireless communications, radar, biomedical engineering, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has driven advancements in unsupervised learning. This review synthesizes recent progress in applying autoencoders and vision transformers for unsupervised signal analysis, focusing on their architectures, applications, and emerging trends. We explore how these models enable feature extraction, anomaly detection, and classification across diverse signal types, including electrocardiograms, radar waveforms, and IoT sensor data. The review highlights the strengths of hybrid architectures and self-supervised learning, while identifying challenges in interpretability, scalability, and domain generalization. By bridging methodological innovations and practical applications, this work offers a roadmap for developing robust, adaptive models for signal intelligence.
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Evaluations at Work: Measuring the Capabilities of GenAI in Use
Lepine, Brandon, Weerantunga, Gawesha, Kim, Juho, Mishkin, Pamela, Beane, Matthew
Current AI benchmarks miss the messy, multi-turn nature of human-AI collaboration. We present an evaluation framework that decomposes real-world tasks into interdependent subtasks, letting us track both LLM performance and users' strategies across a dialogue. Complementing this framework, we develop a suite of metrics, including a composite usage derived from semantic similarity, word overlap, and numerical matches; structural coherence; intra-turn diversity; and a novel measure of the "information frontier" reflecting the alignment between AI outputs and users' working knowledge. We demonstrate our methodology in a financial valuation task that mirrors real-world complexity. Our empirical findings reveal that while greater integration of LLM-generated content generally enhances output quality, its benefits are moderated by factors such as response incoherence, excessive subtask diversity, and the distance of provided information from users' existing knowledge. These results suggest that proactive dialogue strategies designed to inject novelty may inadvertently undermine task performance. Our work thus advances a more holistic evaluation of human-AI collaboration, offering both a robust methodological framework and actionable insights for developing more effective AI-augmented work processes.
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Can Large Language Models Challenge CNNs in Medical Image Analysis?
Ahmed, Shibbir, Sakib, Shahnewaz Karim, Das, Anindya Bijoy
This study presents a multimodal AI framework designed for precisely classifying medical diagnostic images. Utilizing publicly available datasets, the proposed system compares the strengths of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and different large language models (LLMs). This in-depth comparative analysis highlights key differences in diagnostic performance, execution efficiency, and environmental impacts. Model evaluation was based on accuracy, F1-score, average execution time, average energy consumption, and estimated $CO_2$ emission. The findings indicate that although CNN-based models can outperform various multimodal techniques that incorporate both images and contextual information, applying additional filtering on top of LLMs can lead to substantial performance gains. These findings highlight the transformative potential of multimodal AI systems to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of medical diagnostics in clinical settings.
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SCALAR: A Part-of-speech Tagger for Identifiers
Newman, Christian D., Scholten, Brandon, Testa, Sophia, Behler, Joshua A. C., Banabilah, Syreen, Collard, Michael L., Decker, Michael J., Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem, Zampieri, Marcos, AlOmar, Eman Abdullah, Alsuhaibani, Reem, Peruma, Anthony, Maletic, Jonathan I.
--The paper presents the Source Code Analysis and Lexical Annotation Runtime (SCALAR), a tool specialized for mapping (annotating) source code identifier names to their corresponding part-of-speech tag sequence (grammar pattern). SCALAR's internal model is trained using scikit-learn's GradientBoostingClassifier in conjunction with a manually-curated oracle of identifier names and their grammar patterns. This specializes the tagger to recognize the unique structure of the natural language used by developers to create all types of identifiers (e.g., function names, variable names etc.). SCALAR's output is compared with a previous version of the tagger, as well as a modern off-the-shelf part-of-speech tagger to show how it improves upon other taggers' output for annotating identifiers. The code is available on Github 1 Index T erms --Program comprehension, identifier naming, part-of-speech tagging, natural language processing, software maintenance, software evolution I. I NTRODUCTION The identifiers developers create represent a significant amount of the information other developers must use to understand related code. Given that identifiers represent, on average, 70% of the characters in a code base [1], and developers spend more time reading code than writing [2], [3], it is important for researchers to better understand of how identifiers convey information, and how they can be improved to increase developer reading efficiency.
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The study of short texts in digital politics: Document aggregation for topic modeling
Nakka, Nitheesha, Yalcin, Omer F., Desmarais, Bruce A., Rajtmajer, Sarah, Monroe, Burt
Statistical topic modeling is widely used in political science to study text. Researchers examine documents of varying lengths, from tweets to speeches. There is ongoing debate on how document length affects the interpretability of topic models. We investigate the effects of aggregating short documents into larger ones based on natural units that partition the corpus. In our study, we analyze one million tweets by U.S. state legislators from April 2016 to September 2020. We find that for documents aggregated at the account level, topics are more associated with individual states than when using individual tweets. This finding is replicated with Wikipedia pages aggregated by birth cities, showing how document definitions can impact topic modeling results.
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