Soham De
@actuallysoham
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PhD student @UW / @AIatMeta | algorithms & AI for pro-social objectives Ex- @MSFTResearch, @umsi, @ashokauniv Also on https://t.co/7DkUJLj7qO
Seattle, WA
Joined June 2020
Major personal update: . After a bit of hard work and a whole lot of extreme good luck, I'm happy to share that I'll be joining @UW (@uw_ischool) to start my PhD this Fall!. It has been an extremely rewarding journey so far and I look forward to the next phase!.
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interesting day on the internet for @actuallysoham 🙃.
Without the YC community this guy would still be operating and would have maybe never been caught . The startup guild of YC is a necessary invention to help founders be more successful than they would be alone
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Here’s our articulation of what the future of Community Notes in an LLM era could look like 👀 : . Very interested to hear your thoughts!.
Brand new paper on Arxiv with @Li_Haiwen_ @actuallysoham Manon Revel @andreas_h0wpt @__bradmiller__ @kcoleman @msaveski: Scaling Human Judgment in Community Notes with LLMs. Very bullish on the LLM-assisted future of Community Notes 📈
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Excited to spend the summer working on very interesting stuff at @AIatMeta in NYC! New and old friends, if you’re around I’d love to catch up! 🗽🌻
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Currently traveling to Sydney, to present this paper at @TheWebConf 🚀If you're around and interested in Community Notes and/or social media algorithms in general, I would love to chat!. Full paper: #www2025 #thewebconf2025.
🚨🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨🚨. Our new preprint w/ @_jaybaxter_, @bakkermichiel @msaveski (dream team!) proposes a framework to generate ✨Supernotes✨ - AI-generated notes that synthesize information from several existing @communitynotes and are written to foster consensus among
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This project screams @kabirahuja004 in every way!.
I had always wanted to work on something that can combine my love for fiction and NLP research, making this project a lot of fun. Huge thanks to the wonderful @melaniesclar and @tsvetshop!. We welcome any feedback and questions -- don't hesitate to reach out!. 16/16
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RT @_jaybaxter_: Community Notes scale and speed up fact-checking, and do so in a more trustworthy way. But to handle AI-scale misinfo slo….
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RT @SmithaMilli: My talk from @IASEAIorg on "Dynamic Preferences in AI Alignment: A Deliberative Democracy Lens" is up here..
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RT @profjamesevans: 🧵 Thrilled to share our new @NatureComms paper on how different approaches to fact-checking affect echo chambers on Twi….
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RT @manoelribeiro: In a new blog post, I discuss the emerging literature on simulating human behavior with LLMs. h….
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Probably the best pre-doc program in India - highly recommend applying!.
Microsoft Research India is excited to announce applications are open for our Research Fellow program (deadline 15th Feb 2025). Details of the program and the application are here:. 🔗 Research Fellow program: @MSFTResearch.
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RT @random_walker: @jonathanstray By far the best commentary on this drama. Thank you!. Also, the SuperNotes paper is extremely interesting….
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RT @_jaybaxter_: Check out the full interview here w/@kcoleman, @lucasnantonio, Emily Thai, and Asterisk's Clara Collier: .
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RT @danielequercia: PhD Summer internships🌟 Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) is hunting for top PhD students to tackle cutting-edge AI ethics #Resp….
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RT @UpolEhsan: [Pls repost] Reminder: Fully funded PhD! .Join my lab if you want to do impactful work in Explainable AI, Human-centered AI,….
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Finished reading this paper and am feeling very inspired by the encouraging prosocial outcomes from only a week-long intervention!!!.
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🔥🔥🔥.
New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization?. We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup!🧵⬇️
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RT @chris_bail: Our Polarization Lab at Duke hopes to hire another post-doc this year-- apply below and/or please share with people who mig….
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RT @lajello: Testing LLMs in Game Theory experiments reveals their moral biases as social agents -- useful to inform alignment. Llama2 play….
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RT @michinebeling: We're doing another PhD in technical HCI office hours (6th Edition): next Wed Nov 20 11-12pm: Lo….
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