All thanks to my amazing collaborators Lodewijk Gelauff, Ashish Goel, Smitha Milli, Ariel Procaccia and Alice Siu!!!

This was some work I did Meta FAIR this summer (more on the way!)

Read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04588 (7/7)

Our auditing tools are integrated into a deliberation platform
used in 50+ countries, allowing moderators to measure and improve representation in real time (thanks, Harshvardhan Agarwal and others!) (6/7)

LLM-generated questions achieve representation levels comparable to—or better than—the theoretically optimal subsets, and consistently outperform human-selected slates (lower value is better) (5/7)

We infer general utilities using LLM text-embeddings, assuming participants derive high utility from questions semantically similar to ones they propose (3/7)

🚨 New paper! 🔍
“Question the Questions: Auditing Representation in Online Deliberative Processes”

In deliberative polls, participants propose questions for experts but only a few make it to the panel. How representative are those chosen questions of everyone’s interests? 🧵👇

Beyond helpfulness, participants also rated the Supernotes more favorably than the best existing notes on quality, clarity, coverage, context, and argumentativeness.

In a human-subjects evaluation, participants rated Supernotes significantly more helpful than the best existing human-written notes on Community Notes.

I'll be in Sydney presenting ✨Supernotes✨ at the ACM WebConf 🚀 (WWW'25). Incase you missed it, here's a very short thread about it: 🧵

Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#www2025 #thewebconf2025

UW Campus, today!

#peakbloom #seattle #cherryblossoms