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Ashton Anderson

9 accepted papers

2026

Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling

ICLR 2026poster

Chess has played a uniquely important historical role as a testbed domain for artificial intelligence. Applying new architectures to improve absolute chess performance, and more recently to predict human moves at specified skill levels, has therefore garnered attention in the machine learning litera…

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2026

Position: We Need Large Language Models Optimized For Our Well-Being

ICML 2026poster

Contemporary large language models are predominantly trained using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), optimizing for immediate user approval rather than long-term well-being. This position paper argues that as AI systems increasingly serve socioemotional functions, this optimization …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Designing Skill-Compatible AI: Methodologies and Frameworks in Chess

ICLR 2024poster

Powerful artificial intelligence systems are often used in settings where they must interact with agents that are computationally much weaker, for example when they work alongside humans or operate in complex environments where some tasks are handled by algorithms, heuristics, or other entities of v…

2024

Maia-2: A Unified Model for Human-AI Alignment in Chess

NeurIPS 2024poster

There are an increasing number of domains in which artificial intelligence (AI) systems both surpass human ability and accurately model human behavior. This introduces the possibility of algorithmically-informed teaching in these domains through more relatable AI partners and deeper insights into hu…

2024

SPIN: Sparsifying and Integrating Internal Neurons in Large Language Models for Text Classification

ACL 2024findings

Among the many tasks that Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized is text classification. Current text classification paradigms, however, rely solely on the output of the final layer in the LLM, with the rich information contained in internal neurons largely untapped. In this study, we pres…

2022

Implications of Model Indeterminacy for Explanations of Automated Decisions

NeurIPS 2022accept

There has been a significant research effort focused on explaining predictive models, for example through post-hoc explainability and recourse methods. Most of the proposed techniques operate upon a single, fixed, predictive model. However, it is well-known that given a dataset and a predictive task…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2021

Detecting Individual Decision-Making Style: Exploring Behavioral Stylometry in Chess

NeurIPS 2021poster

The advent of machine learning models that surpass human decision-making ability in complex domains has initiated a movement towards building AI systems that interact with humans. Many building blocks are essential for this activity, with a central one being the algorithmic characterization of human…

2019

Understanding the Origins of Bias in Word Embeddings

ICML 2019oral

Popular word embedding algorithms exhibit stereotypical biases, such as gender bias. The widespread use of these algorithms in machine learning systems can amplify stereotypes in important contexts. Although some methods have been developed to mitigate this problem, how word embedding biases arise d…